Little Union Church Road
Organized 1825
(Crawford
County, Georgia)
Fort Valley, GA 31030
Union Church was accepted in to the Flint River Baptist Association in 1826
The Beginning - Nov. 19, 1825 ~
Crawford County, Ga., Nov. 19, 1825
Constitution of the Church of Christ at Union. We the members of the Baptist order who compose the Church of Union being met to gather according to previous appointment do agree to enroll our names and being found in order dox by presbytry. We agree to be constituted into a Church capacity and become one body to walk and love one another for good and to keep house for the Lord and was constituted on the day above written by our beloved brethren.
Theoplus Pearce
John Blackstone
Jonathan Neal
The Presbytry
Names of the members at the constitution:
| MALES | FEMALES |
| Micayah Carliles | Nancy Dukes |
| Drury Dukes | Tabitha Bateman |
| John Walker | Estes Powell |
| Hiram Powell | Elizabeth Tucker |
| William Tucker | Permia Powell |
| Seth Durham |
We do certify that the above named brethren was constituted by us on the day and date written above.
Theoplus Pearce
John Blackstone
Jonathan Neal
The following Principles of our Faith
1. We believe in one only true and living God and there are three Gods head, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
2. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the word of God and the only rule of faith and practice.
3. We believe in the doctrine of internal and pesticular election.
4. We believe in the doctrine of origin sin.
5. We believe in mans impotancy to recover himself from the fallen state he is in by nature by his own free will and ability.
6. We believe sinners are justified in the site of God only by the imputed righteousness of Christ.
7. We believe that God's elect shall be called, regenerated, and sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
8. We believe that the Saints shall preserve in Grace and never finally fall away.
9. We believe that baptism and the Lord's Supper are ordinances of Jesus Christ and that hire believins and their only subjects of these ordinances and that the true made of baptism is by immersion.
10. We believe in the resurrection of the dead and a general judgement.
11. We believe that the punishment of the wicked will be everlasting and the joys of the righteous be eternal.
12. We believe that no ministries have a right to the administration of the ordinances, only such as are regularly called and come under imposition of hands by the presbytery.
Thanks to Cheryl Aultman ← for getting the rest of #12!
Read and transcribed by Ed and Kim Gordon
History
~ Union Church was founded in the year 1825. The first meeting was
held on November 12th, 1825 with Elder Jonathan Neal serving as the first
preacher and John Blackstone as clerk. The land on which the church and cemetery
now stand was donated by Mr. Jasper Taylor, a very wealthy farmer and slave
owner. He had a big part in helping build the church. With the help of his
slaves and the other men in the community with their slaves the material used in
the building was cut and hauled by the use of oxen. Most every piece of material
used was hand hued and the building was put together with wooden pegs. They used
shutters made of plank for windows in the unsealed church. The records show that
some slaves joined the church and attended the meetings along with the white
people. The half
wall which used to separate the two can still be seen in the church. After the
war many changes were made. The community which had been so thickly settled grew
thin and not many church members were left but the few that were left put in
glass windows and kept having their little meetings. Finally the church went
completely down and the cemetery grew up but in 1925 the community had a
centennial and collected enough money to cover and paint the church and clean
the cemetery. In 1940 the church was reorganized but the members were still very
few. They cleaned the cemetery about once every year or so and continued to meet
each month. Since the Friendship Community Club was organized the church has
been repainted, wired, and lights added. A new pulpit has been installed as well
as rug and runners, seventy-five new song books, two pairs of stone steps, and
the cemetery has been
cleaned, cleared, and sprayed. The baptizing pool has been cleaned out and
gravel put around it. Plans are now being made for a church sign to be painted.
Preaching is now held twice a month at Union with the Elder W. H. Hancock
serving as preacher. The total number of members to date is twenty nine. In the
cemetery stands a statue of Mr. Jasper Taylor's son. Some of Mr. Taylor's
great-grandchildren still reside in Friendship Community.
Conference Minutes
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