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CHURCH RECORDS PAGE

Please send any Church histories or sketches of any churches to Liz Robertson.  The Registry
Taken from Geographic Names Information System -
United States and Territories
Berner, Georgia
Cabaniss Baptist Church
Saint Pauls Church
Sunshine Church (historical)

Bolingbroke, Georgia
Bolingbroke Methodist Church
Colaparchee Church
First South Church
Jobes Chapel
Mount Zion Church
Mount Zion Church (2 of these)
Pleasant Grove Church
Saint Paul Church
Salem Church
William Chapel

Collier's Station
 Shiloh Baptist Church
Culloden
Culloden UMC
Dames Ferry, Georgia
Dames Ferry Baptist Church

East Juliette, Georgia
Browns Chapel
Ebenezer Church UMC
Ephesus Church
Friendship Church
Holly Grove Primitive Baptist Church
Juliette Baptist Church
Juliette United Methodist Church
Saint Peters Rock Church
Saint Peters Rock Church (historical)
Saint Pauls Church
Spring Hill Baptist Church

Forsyth, Georgia
Fairview Church
Fellowship Church
First Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
Forsyth United Methodist Church
Garden Hills Baptist Church
Kynette United Methodist Church
Logwell Church
Maynard Church
Mount Airy Church
Northside Church
Piney Grove Church
Roberts Memorial Chapel
Rum Creek Church
Saint James Baptist Church (historical)
Saint Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church
Smyrna Church
Tessiehall Church
Trio Baptist Church

Goggins, Georgia
Union Primitive Baptist Church
High Falls, Georgia
High Falls Baptist Church
Providence Church

Indian Springs, Georgia
Antioch Church
Coleman Church (historical)
Coleman Clerk Church
Lowdice Church
Mount Gilead Church
Mount Gilead Church (2 of these)
Paron Church
Pleasant Grove Church
Pleasant Grove Church (2 of these)
Saint Pauls Church
JACKSON, GA.
Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church

Johnstonville, Georgia
Oak Grove Church
Old Mount Zion Church (historical)
Rocky Creek Church
Wrights Grove Church

Macon, Georgia
Damascus Methodist Episcopal Church (historical)

Moran, Georgia
Greenville Church
Little Rogers Church
Mount Calvary Church (historical)

Smarr, Georgia
Bethlehem Church (historical)
Church of Christ
Ebenezer Church
Hopewell Church GA
Midway Church
Mount Pleasant Church
Mount Vernon Church
Mount Zion United MethodistChurch
New Pine Grove Church
New Providence Church
Rogers Methodist Church
Russellville Baptist Church

Strouds, Georgia
Mount Pleasant Church
New Macedonia Church
Orange Grove Church
Parkers Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Russellville Church
Sharon Church
Tabernacle Church


 
Dames Ferry Baptist Church.  (The Monroe Advertiser, Oct. 4, 1928)
    The new Baptist church at Dames Ferry was dedicated with a special service Sunday night at 8 o'clock.  The dedication sermon was preached by Robt. J. Taylor of Macon.  A musical program was presented by the Georgia Industrial Home band of Macon.  A large crowd attended the services.  The new church at Dames Ferry is the result of only one year's labor.  In the past 12 months, the Baptist have built a church, organized a Sunday school of 70 members and a B. Y. P. U. of 55 members.  A new piano has also been purchased.  Credit for a large part of this work is due Ed C. Seifert, superintendent of the Sunday school.  Rev. R. W. Freeman, of Macon, is the pastor.  Revival services will be held at the church during the week of October 14.  This series of meetings is to be sponsored by the Business Men Evangelitial Club of Macon.

Smyrna Church, Mill Community. 

    SMYRNA CHURCH IS CONSTITUTED IN MILL COMMUNITY  (The Monroe Advertiser, Nov. 20, 1948)
    At a service Sunday afternoon at Smyrna Church, in the Persons Mill Community, a church was constituted, to be known as the Smyrna
Mission Baptist Church.  The service was conducted by Dr. Leslie S. Williams, pastor of the church.  The Scripture was read by Gainer E. Bryan, and a prayer
offered by Rev. Jesse F. Ray, Macon, superintendent of city Baptist missions.  Herbert Ashe, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. W. Fred Gunn, of
Bessie Tift College, sang "Holy Spirit, Breathe on Me." and the Rev. Harry V. Smith, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, gave a history of the early church,
housed in the present building.  Doctor Williams read the Baptist Articles of Faith and Church Covenant.
    Other churches represented were the Forsyth First Baptist Church, Shiloh, Tattnall Square Baptist Church, Macon, Mallory Baptist Church, Macon, and
Russellville Baptist Church.  Charter members of the church are 12 in number, including J. B. Williams, Grady Passmore, Tobe Baggley, Mr. and Mrs. Clem
Clifton, Miss Opal Clifton, Will Slaton, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Griffith, Mrs. J. W. Collins, Miss Louise Collins and Mrs. L. W. Harper.
    in 1823, the First Baptist Church of Forsyth was constituted, and in 1838 there was a division in the membership over the question of missions, and a group
of the members built a church on the present site of Smyrna Church, calling it the Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church.  The present building is over 75 years old, and
throughout the years worship was held there, until either by death or removal to some other community, the membership dwindled away, services were
finally discontinued, and the old church stood abandoned.  Today there is only one living member of this church, Mrs. J. N. Zellner, of Forsyth, now in her 82nd year.
    Realizing the possibilities in that neighborhood, the First Baptist Church of Forsyth early in the spring began a mission Sunday school in the church.  The land was originally deeded by the late Ben I. Pye to the membership, so long as it was used for a church.  It is located at a point which years ago was an important
crossroads between Macon and Griffin.  Permission was secured from the only living member of the church, and others who were interested, to organize a
Baptist Sunday school.
    Cathy E'Dalgo, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. McCosh, Mrs. W. Joe Ham, Miss Ernestine Kesler and Miss Antonioette Allen, as teachers, the school progressed
to such an extent, and the older people became so interested, that the church idea grew.  The building has been renovated, equipment bought and
installed, and other improvements are in progress.
    While at present the mission is a fraternal part of the First Baptist Church, it is believed that in time it will become a full fledged church.
And, to bear out this faith, the first set of newly constituted church ws to take an offering for missions, the sum totaling $19.37.
 


   

 

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