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Elizabeth Robertson
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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 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
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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.
