Everybody is Welcome at Mount Moriah.
For over 130 years, Mount Moriah has served as a Progressive Witness of Jesus Christ in Pembroke and North Bryan County. At Mount Moriah, you find yourself in a warm and welcoming environment that will allow you to experience real folks abiding in community, loving each other, and serving God. As a small congregation in a beautiful rural setting, we have convenient parking located near the front entrance for our first-time guests. Our Mount Moriah Ushers will be glad to help you find a seat for the worship service.
Beyond hospitality, Mount Moriah is committed to being Christian stewards of love. As such, we practice love, build the beloved community, and pursue social justice. We believe the overwhelming message of the Bible, in story after story, is that of God's radical love and welcome. Every time we think we know who's in and who's out, God does something to challenge those assumptions, unbind our hearts and minds from old ways of understanding, and draw the circle ever wider.
Our doors are wide open to people from all backgrounds, regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey. Together, we are striving to become a place where there's relevant teaching, heart-felt worship, honest friendships, constant prayer, and compassionate care. So whether you are a spiritual seeker who is just starting to ask questions about God or a committed Christian who wants to sink the roots of your faith even deeper, you can find a home here at Mount Moriah!
Enjoy Connection
THROUGH WORSHIP | Sunday services start at Noon, following Sunday School, on the First, Second, and Fourth Sundays. Learn more.
THROUGH STUDY | Sunday School for all ages begins at 11:30 a.m. Additionally, there is a Morning Devotion every Wednesday at 6:30 am. Just dial 717.908.1726 and use Passcode 1065315# to participate. Learn more.
THROUGH SERVICE | One of the most important values of Mount Moriah is our mission to the Pembroke community. Mount Moriah's members are involved in a variety of church-based ministries and community partnerships. Feel free to contact our Church Clerk with further questions.
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#STRONGBLACKFAMILIES
This month, we focus on the sacred work of strengthening the family. Family is where faith is nurtured, identity is formed, wounds are healed, wisdom is passed down, and generations are prepared to rise. Our families face real pressures, but we are more than what we have survived. We are heirs to generations of faith, resilience, creativity, sacrifice, and love. #Rooted2Rise reminds us that strong roots make flourishing possible. We strengthen the family by caring for the whole person and the whole household: spiritually, physically, financially, emotionally, socially, culturally, and within the wider community.
Here are seven practical things every family can do this month:
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Spiritual: Pray Together - Set aside time each week for family prayer, Scripture, gratitude, and honest conversation about faith. Ask one another, “How can I pray for you?” A praying family creates space for God to heal, guide, and strengthen.
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Physical: Protect Your Health - Schedule the checkup you have delayed. Take a family walk. Drink more water. Prepare a healthier meal together. Rest without guilt. Caring for our bodies honors the life God has given us.
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Financial: Have a Family Money Conversation - Talk openly about saving, spending, debt, giving, and goals. Review the household budget and teach children that money is a tool to be managed, not a measure of their worth. Financial wisdom today can change generations tomorrow.
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Emotional: Make Room for Healing - Ask, “How are you really doing?” Listen without immediately judging, fixing, or preaching. Apologize where necessary. Forgive where possible. Seek counseling when needed. Strong families are not families without wounds. They are families willing to heal.
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Social: Reconnect - Call an elder. Share a meal without phones. Visit family. Make room for laughter, recreation, and joy. Relationships require attention, and presence remains one of the greatest gifts we can give one another.
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Cultural: Read, Remember, and Tell the Story - Share the names, photographs, traditions, testimonies, and stories of those who came before us. Then join the Heart. Mind. Soul. Book Club on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 6:30 PM, featuring Dr. Melva Sampson’s The Pink Robe Chronicles. Through an Afrocentric, womanist, and liberation lens, we will explore family, identity, memory, healing, and faith. Sankofa reminds us to reach back, recover what is valuable, and carry it forward.
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Community: Support the Statesboro Food Bank - Put faith into action by supporting the Statesboro Food Bank. Donate food, give financially, volunteer, or involve the whole family in helping neighbors facing food insecurity. When we help put food on another family’s table, we strengthen the entire community.
Artist of the Month - Larry “Poncho” Brown
This month, we feature acclaimed Baltimore artist Larry “Poncho” Brown, whose work bears witness to Black family, heritage, memory, resilience, and possibility.
On the cover of our Sunday bulletins is Soul Survivors. This work reminds us that family can heal, binding wounds and restoring hope when life has pressed us low. Sankofa Spirit and Love, Links & Lineage also appear in the bulletins and other church publications. These works remind us that family is more than bloodline. It is the sacred chain connecting ancestors to descendants, preserving our stories, nurturing our faith, and forming our identity. Brown’s life and work remind us that our roots do not restrict our rising. They make our rising possible.
Author of the Month - Dr. Melva Sampson
Our featured author is Dr. Melva Sampson, author of The Pink Robe Chronicles, a work that invites us to reflect deeply on identity, family, memory, faith, healing, and the stories that shape our lives.
We will continue that conversation at the Heart. Mind. Soul. Book Club on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, at 6:30 PM. Through an Afrocentric, womanist, and liberation lens, we will explore The Pink Robe Chronicles and consider how honest storytelling can help us name what has wounded us, recover what has sustained us, and imagine what healing can look like for ourselves, our families, and our communities.
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This month, let us do more than talk about family. Let us pray together, heal together, plan together, read together, remember together, serve together, and rise together. Our families are sacred soil. When we strengthen the roots, we prepare the next generation to flourish.
Rooted in faith. Rooted in family. Rooted in love. #Rooted2Rise
Progress Report
This season at Mount Moriah, we walked the road from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday with purpose—and with power.
Palm Sunday reminded us that Jesus did not enter quietly. He came as a disruption. He came as a declaration. He came announcing a different kind of kingdom—one that challenges injustice and lifts the lowly. And we did not just wave palms—we aligned ourselves with that kind of love.
But this year, we did more than remember. We witnessed a repair.
In the midst of renovation, we returned to a revived sanctuary—renewed space, restored beauty, and a living testimony that God is not finished with us yet. Because the same God who raises the dead is the God who repairs what is broken.
Easter is not just about empty tombs. It is about recovery—recovering what was worn down. It is about healing—healing what has been wounded. It is about repair—restoring what needed fixing.
And so we celebrated under this truth: No Greater Love. A love that sacrifices. A love that redeems. A love that refuses to let death, despair, or division have the final word.
If you are looking for a place to grow your family in faith, to wrestle with real life in honest community, and to prepare for what lies ahead—this is your invitation.
We are Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church. We are Rooted to Rise.
And there is room for you here. Join us.
About Community
Established in 1890, the Mount Moriah Baptist Church has stood as a physical representation of the hope and determination of the African-American spirit. Through the years as a school, community center, and civil rights organizing meeting hall, Mount Moriah has always served people through its Watch, Witness, and Worship.
At Mount Moriah, all our resources are utilized to provide a Christ-centered setting where people in this community can be redeemed to a personal relationship with Christ, reconciled to God and his people, restored to wholeness, to well-being, and revived for a full life involved in service to others.
At Mount Moriah, you can be redeemed, reconciled, restored, and revived. Let's go!
Show Your Pride
Show your Mount Moriah pride wherever you go! Visit The Mount Moriah Shop to browse exclusive shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, and other items that celebrate our church’s spirit of faith, service, and community.
We are proud to partner with Black- and minority-owned businesses to source, produce, and distribute our products — keeping our ministry rooted in economic justice and community empowerment. Every purchase supports the ministries and mission of Mount Moriah Baptist Church.
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The Reverend Dr. Francys Johnson well serves Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church. The pulpit of Mount Moriah has long provided community-wide leadership.
Over the last 25 years, Dr. Johnson has also exemplified the values of Christian service with humility before the congregation of Pembroke. He is also the Senior Pastor of the Magnolia Baptist Church of Statesboro. First Lady Meca Williams-Johnson’s particular success in youth programming and academic mentoring is an asset to the ministries of Mount Moriah. Further, they are ambassadors of our faith community to the region and nation.