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

Harmony Missionary Baptist Church

Non-Denominational

Current Pastor

1645 N Webster Ave   33805

Prior to 1985: Harmony Missionary Baptist Church began with some faithful worshipers in a home on North Tennessee Avenue.

 

Subsequently, the worshipers acquired land at the corner of North Florida Avenue and North Street (now Memorial Boulevard).

 

During the early 1970s the church acquired land on at Webster Avenue and 14th Street and began work on building a church.  The congregation moved into the new sanctuary in 1982.

John J Hooks

 

Denise Bristol-Hooks

First Lady

Pastors

JC Cherry

 

 EW Lester

 

AW Tucker

 

WH Marshall

 

JM Mells

 

GEO Whitehurst

 

JW Rhodes

 

WE Gardner

 

GT Martin

 

W Don Pelham

 

JJ McGriff

 

WR Lovelace

 

Enoch Jones

 

Charles Milton

 

VL Liburd

 

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