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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