Bladenboro
North Carolina
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Zion Hill Baptist Church
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The church Sanctuary is located two miles North of the town of Bladenboro. It sits beside the highways NC 131 and NC 410 at the intersection of Zion Hill Church Road. This has been the meeting place for the Church since it was organized in the year 1885.
The Church community took shape from then existing public school district of which a one-room school house was the center.
The organization of the Church came out of a need for a worship place closer by. The residents of the community, most of whom were of the Baptist Denomination, were undergoing hardships to attend the services of their respective churches. The mode of travel was walking and by horsedrawn conveyances. The roads were rough and hazardous to travel.
When Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Davis) Butler offered a one-acre lot of land, upon which a church house could be erected, the Baptists organized themselves. They chose the name "Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church". The new Church chose a building site to be adjacent to the school house and began soliciting materials to build a church house. The building project was a community effort, as the Church members and well-wishers donated labor, timber, beasts of burden, the use of sawmills and such supplies needed for the church house. The house was quickly built and dried in suitable for the Church to begin holding its Worship services.
There is not known to be a record of a roll of the Charter Members; however, the records of the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches show that Zion Hill Church had forty-one mebers by October 1, 1886.
The members of the new church covenanted together to preserve ad secure the principles of their faith in Jesus Christ. The Church body would be governed in an orderly manner and to be consistent with accepted tenets of the Baptist churches from which the members came.
Upon a finding of satisfactory evidence of the orthodoxy of the new church and upon its request for admission, the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches received Zion Hill Church to be a member on October 19-22, 1886.
On October 20-23, 1892, a letter of dismission was granted to Zion Hill Church from the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches for the expressed purpose of aiding the formation of an Association for Baptist Churches within te boundaries of the County of Bladen. Zion Hill Church became a Charter Member of the Bladen Association of Baptist Churches in an organizational meeting which took place on November 11, 1892.
The early church business meetings were guided by a church decorum, but it was the year 1954 that the church adopted a constitution and by-laws.
Zion Hill is an autonomous body and is evangelistic in nature. Not only does the Church reach out to teach the Word of God to the people in the local community, but it joins in a cooperative effort with the Southern Baptist Convention of Churches to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all peoples of the world.
The church Sanctuary is located two miles North of the town of Bladenboro. It sits beside the highways NC 131 and NC 410 at the intersection of Zion Hill Church Road. This has been the meeting place for the Church since it was organized in the year 1885.
The Church community took shape from then existing public school district of which a one-room school house was the center.
The organization of the Church came out of a need for a worship place closer by. The residents of the community, most of whom were of the Baptist Denomination, were undergoing hardships to attend the services of their respective churches. The mode of travel was walking and by horsedrawn conveyances. The roads were rough and hazardous to travel.
When Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Davis) Butler offered a one-acre lot of land, upon which a church house could be erected, the Baptists organized themselves. They chose the name "Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church". The new Church chose a building site to be adjacent to the school house and began soliciting materials to build a church house. The building project was a community effort, as the Church members and well-wishers donated labor, timber, beasts of burden, the use of sawmills and such supplies needed for the church house. The house was quickly built and dried in suitable for the Church to begin holding its Worship services.
There is not known to be a record of a roll of the Charter Members; however, the records of the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches show that Zion Hill Church had forty-one mebers by October 1, 1886.
The members of the new church covenanted together to preserve ad secure the principles of their faith in Jesus Christ. The Church body would be governed in an orderly manner and to be consistent with accepted tenets of the Baptist churches from which the members came.
Upon a finding of satisfactory evidence of the orthodoxy of the new church and upon its request for admission, the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches received Zion Hill Church to be a member on October 19-22, 1886.
On October 20-23, 1892, a letter of dismission was granted to Zion Hill Church from the Cape Fear Association of Baptist Churches for the expressed purpose of aiding the formation of an Association for Baptist Churches within te boundaries of the County of Bladen. Zion Hill Church became a Charter Member of the Bladen Association of Baptist Churches in an organizational meeting which took place on November 11, 1892.
The early church business meetings were guided by a church decorum, but it was the year 1954 that the church adopted a constitution and by-laws.
Zion Hill is an autonomous body and is evangelistic in nature. Not only does the Church reach out to teach the Word of God to the people in the local community, but it joins in a cooperative effort with the Southern Baptist Convention of Churches to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all peoples of the world.