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Sundays and enjoy equality without encountering the racial deprivations of everyday living in the South at that time.” The first minister to lead the congregation was
Reverend Charles Johnson Smith, who came to Mount Moriah in 1887. Reverend Smith's position as a moderator of the First Florida Missionary Baptist Association helped allow the developing church to be granted membership in the organization in 1910. Reverend Smith continued to serve Mount Moriah until 1911.
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In 2015, God blessed Mount Moriah
Missionary Baptist Church with its 12th pastor, Reverend Weaver Blondin. God, through Pastor Blondin's spiritual leadership and guidance are doing amazing things. The Mount Moriah congregation, affectionately known as "The Mount" is now growing in membership and most
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Missionary Baptist Church is led by its 11th pastor, Rev. A. C. Cobb. “Like many Black churches across the nation, Mt. Moriah is facing an aging congregation and tackling the job of finding younger members". The church has a congregation of approximately 150 members, of which
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for a church site. These lots, located on the southwest corner of West Lyman and
Pennsylvania Avenues, are the home of two church buildings. “On April 26, 1912, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church also purchased for $ 165.00 from Charles and Helen Morse of Chicago, Illinois Lot Thirteen in Block Sixty-nine to
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Orlando, and the Public Library of Winter Park. Also, funds were allotted “to all the churches of Winter Park irrespective of creed, color or denomination any church home, the House of God". Following Coursen's death in early 1934, each church in Winter Park (including the seven African-American
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The new building allowed the church and its programs to flourish. Between 1941 and 1946, under the leadership of Rev. L. A. Pelham (Mount Moriah's eighth pastor), the church began conducting regular mass every Sunday. New church programs developed over the years which further increased community
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From the time of its founding in 1886 until 1935, membership in Mt. Moriah grew. “Soon the
Ambroses' home could no longer accommodate the number of people attending the church. So, until the church had a building of its own, it held meetings on alternate Sundays at the Winter Park Town Hall". On
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African-Americans could dress in their best attire on
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churches) received a donation of approximately $ 8,500. “With this money every
African-American Church in Winter Park built a new edifice in 1935 or 1936, except Wards Chapel A.M.E. Church who used its money to improve its present structure and purchase additional property".
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