Mount Zion Baptist Church celebrates Mount Zion Day
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Mount Zion Baptist Church, 950 File Street, will celebrate Mount Zion Day on Sunday, Oct. 23, during the 11 a.m. morning worship service. The event is a blending of Men’s and Women’s Day which was combined into Mount Zion Day several years ago.
The theme of Mount Zion Day this year is “The Church That Prays Together Stays Together.” This title is befitting because Mount Zion has never in its 126th church anniversary of five pastors experienced any church split.
Various programs and highlights are held at the church to increase monetary giving, but the main event is the worship service that will be held this Sunday.
This year the worship service will be especially exciting because the guest preacher is a daughter of Mount Zion, Dr. Telika McCoy who served under the tutelage of Mount Zion senior pastor, Dr. Serenus T. Churn Sr. and was subsequently ordained by him.
McCoy currently is a youth minister at Mount Peace Baptist Church in Raleigh, although she is in high demand as the keynote preacher or speaker at many churches and conventions.
She is a video presenter, worship leader, and motivational speaker at the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, which is the oldest African-American Baptist association in North Carolina and has more than 500,000 members.
Dr. McCoy recently published and released her first book, “THAT CHILD: Preparing for Challenging Moments with Youths.”
Dr. McCoy’s background as a clinical chaplain, Exceptional Children’s professional, school teacher, and at-risk youth advocate have prepared her to share her knowledge and experience to help parents and other adults work effectively with young people. “That Child,” according to Zulon Press, “intends to teach adults how to pull together current realities and past experiences in order to build meaningful relationships with youth.”
Contact the church office at 336-722-2325 for more information. If you are not able to attend, please go to mtzionthejoy.org and look at the live service on UStream.
