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
Zion Hill Baptist Church
Non-Denominational
Current Pastor
Zion Hill was establish in 1900, by Elder M. McCarter. The building was located on West Lime Street near downtown Lakeland in the Moorehead community.
In the early 1970s, the City of Lakeland purchased the church through imminent domain. In
1348 N Sidney Avenue 33805
Summary of Church History
Isaac Lane
Pastors
M. McCarter
T.R. Gurley
W.M. Miller
J.T. Townes
1944 - 1948
Prince Hinson
1948 -
O.T. Harrison
O.V. Thurman
O.B. Barley
1941 - 1944
Thomas Samuels
1959 - 1973
Naman Rogers
1974 - 1975
Huet Sampson
1975 - 1979
O.V. Thurman
- 1958
Willie Williams
1979 -1992
Picture Gallery
Bible School class in the early 1940s.
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