Five churches from St. Louis County and St. Louis City, along with two artists, collaborated at Webster Groves Christian Church (WGCC) in Glendale to remember Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday night.

About 150 people from WGCC, Affton Christian Church, Centennial Christian Church, Memorial Boulevard Christian Church and Union Avenue Christian Church celebrated Martin Luther King Day in a service called “It’s Time to Sing a New Song.”

St. Louis illustrators John Dyess and Kevin Belford showed their work in a hallway of the church that served as an art gallery. Dyess showed work from textbooks he had illustrated, and from a book written by Eleanora E. Tate called To be Free, which is about a runaway slave.

Belford's display featured illustrations he created for the book he wrote called Devil at the Confluence, which is about St. Louis music in the period between ragtime and the Second World War.

Rev. Derrick Perkins, from Centennial Christian Church, delivered the sermon in the sanctuary.

The artwork will be on display in the gallery through March 4.