Churches in the Community
Baptist
Pentecostal-Holiness
Methodist
Denominations:
First Baptist Institutional
Beulah Missionary
Congregations:
Greater New Jerusalem
Greater St Paul Missionary
Harmony Missionary
Macedonia Primitive
Mount Calvary
Mount Sinai
New Mount Zion
Pilgrim Rest Missionary
St Luke's Freewill
Zion Hill
Greater St Paul Missionary Baptist Church
Non-Denominational
Current Pastor
St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church was organized in 1916 by Reverend Willis Lucas, his wife and Mrs. Gracie Gay.
They acquired a piece of property at the corner of Eighth Street and Virginia Avenue where the built their first house of worship.
After the first ten years, the church had some expansion. A parsonage was built; and inside the church an arch was built over the choir stand and a baptismal pool was installed.
Dr. N.S. Sanders was pastor in 1985.
Dr NS Sanders
Betty Sanders
First Lady
Page Under Construction
Pastors
Willis Lucas
1916 - 1921
S.C. Caldwell
1921 -
Riddle
Taylor
Washington
Coleman
Griffin
- 1932
G.J. Martin
1933 - 1966
C.W. Dawson
1967 -
Alex Harper
- 1974
N.S. Sanders
1974 -
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