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About Us:
Cameron Grove A.M.E. Zion Church was
organized in 1876, and built on an acre of land donated
by Mr. Thomas Cameron. Five dollars were given to Mr.
Cameron so the land could be legally deeded. However, he
returned the money to help in building the church.
Services were first held in a brush arbor, then a simple
one-room structure, and additions were made to this.
Early memberships included the Cameron, McLean, Prince,
Womack, Buie, Douglas, Brewington, Marks, Rollins,
Thomas and Cox families. In 1954 a new brick sanctuary
was constructed. The Christian Education Annex was
completed and dedicated on July 1, 1990. The current
worship Center was built and dedicated in July 2005.
Our
mission is to increase our love for God and to help meet
the needs of mankind by “Loving God with all our heart,
with all our soul, and with all our mind, and to love
our neighbor as ourselves.” Implicit in this statement
is the belief that the church should have a positive
relationship to God vertically and a positive
relationship to humankind horizontally. Therefore, we
love God and are obedient to His commandments and loyal
to all for which He and His Kingdom stands.
We also share in the mission of His Son
Jesus Christ, in healing the sick, helping the blind to
receive sight, the lame to walk, the leper to be
cleansed, the deaf to hear, the dead to be raised, and
the poor to have the Good News preached to them. – Luke
4:18.
We actualize this mission by praising
God, by being obedient to the demands of the Gospel, by
telling the story of God’s gracious acts in creating and
redeeming the world, by inviting persons to commit their
lives to Jesus Christ, and by serving as ministers of
God’s liberating and reconciling grace.
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