1. We believe in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Scriptures. We believe that the Bible reveals God, the fall of man, the way of salvation, and God's plan and purpose for the ages.
2. We believe that there is one God eternally existent in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the Deity and Virgin Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, and in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His return.
4. We believe that salvation is "by grace" plus or minus nothing. The conditions to salvation are repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.
5. We believe that man is sinful and is thereby separated from God. He is justified by faith alone and accounted righteous before God only through the merit of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of life, and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation.

Mission:

1. to celebrate God's redeeming love revealed through His Son, Jesus Christ, as the central force in our lives;
2. to proclaim Jesus, the only way to salvation for all people, and the freedom and liberty He brings from sin, death, and hell;
3. to grow in God's love as individuals in shared worship, praise, study, prayer, witness and fellowship, and to nurture this growth through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit;
4. to witness the Gospel to all God's people;
5. to care for, minister to and encourage those we know and those we may never know; and
6. to offer our time, our talents, our gifts, our service, our praise, and our prayers for this mission.

Ministerial Staff
• Rev. Phyllis B. Smotherson, Pastor
• Rev. Judy Austin
• Rev. Iantha Q. Brown
• Rev. Roland Brown
• Rev. Dr. V. Keith Brown
• Rev. Dennis Gist
• Rev. Aljin Haynes
• Rev. Gina Higgs
• Rev. Ronald Ingram
• Rev. Sherma Jack-Brisseau
• Rev. Bernadine Reid
• Rev. Diane Shorts-Wood
• Rev. Ethel Taylor
• Rev. Linda Thompson

---

Deacon Board
• Robert E. Taylor, Chairman
• Robert Stewart, Vice Chairman/Assistant Treasurer
• Cornelius Ramsey, Assistant Treasurer
• James W. Wilson, Financial Secretary
• Martin Singleton, Secretary
• George Rakes, Chaplain
• Charles Coffer
• Dennis Gist
• Matthew Greene

Junior Deacons

• Jamarr Mills
• Davin Singleton

Deaconess, Chairman

• Vernetta Ramsey

---

Trustee Board
• Eldon Hall, Chairman
• Whitney Goss, Vice Chairman
• Tyrone Savoy, Sexton
• Brenda Allen, Secretary
• Rev. Roland Brown, Jr.
• Francene Foote
• Philip Foote
• Olivia Gunter
• Fred Howard
• Deborah McCombs
• Dillard Menchan
• Phyllis Sewell
• Rev. Diane Shorts-Wood
• Charles Sims
• Sylvia Wise
• Diane Shorts-Wood

Junior Trustees

• Akili Akridge
• Christopher Jack
• Brian Ramsey

---

Church Clerks
• Jean Saunders
• Yvonne Foote, Assistant