Our Founders

The Founding Pastor and Family

Rev. R.W. Dumas and First Lady Lula Thorpe Dumas
Piccola, Nancy Walton, Lucinda Norman, Alice Collins,
Samuel, Joseph, James, George

Our founder's favorite scripture Psalm 100

1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Rev. Rockwell W. Dumas 1926 - 1959 33 Years of Faithful Service

From the cottom fields of Georgia to the city streets of Cleveland.

 

Train up a child in the way he should go and when he gets old, he will not depart from it. To live is Christ and to die is gain.

 

Words from Rev. R.W.Dumas:

“I am happy because God has been everything to me  and has brought me from a mighty long way in fortunes and misfotunes, in my joys and my sorrows.  I am happy because of the little heritage that I have to pass on to the generations yet born.”

Reverend Rockwell W. Dumas

Psalm 100
100 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

Reverend Samuel Dumas

Psalm 91:1
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Reverend Willie McKinney

Psalm 23:1
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

Reverend Dallas Lauderdale

Ephesians 4:5
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Reverend Otis Tufts

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Reverend Otis Newton

Psalm 119:105
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Minister Samuel V. Harrell

Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.

Minister C. Bacon

1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Minister Samuel V. Harrell

Psalm 122:1
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.