NATCHEZ — First Baptist Church of Natchez is hosting a community-wide youth worship service at 7 p.m. today in the church’s family life center.

The youth-centered service is open to all youth, adults and middle school children in the Miss-Lou. There is no admission.

Praise music will be performed by the worship band Grafted In from Ole Miss.

Brian Richards, of Shreveport, is the speaker.

Richards is a youth evangelist and the founder of CrossEyed Ministries.

He is a graduate of Mississippi College and the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.