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At a meeting of the Roanoke
District Convention in January, 1954, the Evangelizing Committee was
instructed to engage Brother John E. Alligood to start a work in the
city of Washington, NC. The first services were held in the Redmen's
Hall, beginning on Lord's Day, June 27, 1954, with eleven people in
attendance. In the early fall of the same year, an option was
taken on the present site on East Tenth Street and a Tent Meeting was
begun. The meeting closed at the Roanoke Christian Service Camp
following a storm that blew the tent away. Meetings resumed at the
Redmen's Hall until the following year when the property was purchased
and the first unit of the
building was started.
Additions to the facility have
included a new auditorium dedicated on March 31, 1963, and a new
educational wing in 1974. Since its beginning, the congregation has
grown to an active membership of over seven hundred and a facility
valued at $2,000,000. In March of 1988, the Church bought
additional property on the corner of Brown and Tenth Streets for
parking. Two major accomplishments were realized during 1993. The house
next door was purchased, thus giving the Church ownership of all
property east of the building to Brown Street. The second major dream
was realized with the total renovation of the
auditorium.
On June 21,
1998 the congregation
broke ground for its
Family Life Center,
which was occupied in the Spring of 1999 and
dedicated on May 23, 1999. We will soon start construction on an
additional building, which will house additional classrooms, offices,
etc.
Ministers having served the
congregation are: Everett Currier, Charles Moore, Paul Duckett, Timothy
Humphries, Ronald Richardson, Robert Manship, and William Truitt.
S. Ray
West is the present Senior Minister, having been with the
congregation since January 17, 1977. In June of 1977, the
congregation called Michael Owney as the Church's first Associate
Minister. Tony Pressley and Brent Brewer also served as Associate
Ministers. The Church called
Steve Hill in May of 1987 as
Youth Minister and Associate Minister. He now serves as Associate
Minister of Worship & Education. In August of 1997 Shawn Williams was called as the
Church's third minister on staff as Youth Minister. Mark Lilley was hired in November of
2001 as Youth Minister. In November, 2004, the Church voted to add a
fourth ministerial position to the staff, with the title "Outreach and
Involvement." Logan Bryant was hired as Youth Minister at
that time.
Mark Lilley
is the Outreach and Involvement Minister.
Corey Jones was hired in 2006 as our Children's
Minister. Glen Crocker was hired as Youth Minister in 2008. |
