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.
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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.
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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!
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Enjoy Connection
THROUGH WORSHIP | Sunday services start at Noon, following Sunday School, on the First, Second, and Fourth Sundays. Learn more.
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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.
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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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May at Mount Moriah: Memories, Milestones, and Movement
This Season of Easter does not let us stay at the empty tomb. It sends us back into the world with a question: now that you have seen what God can repair, how will you live? At Mount Moriah, May is our answer. We are living in a time when the ground is shifting beneath our feet. In the wake of Louisiana v. Callais, we are reminded that progress is not permanent and rights are not self-sustaining. What previous generations secured through sacrifice can be narrowed, weakened, and reinterpreted in a single decision.
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So we cannot afford to be casual. We cannot afford to forget. We cannot afford to stand still. This month, we hold three things together: memories, milestones, and movement. Not as ideas, but as a way of life.
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Milestones: We Mark What Matters
May begins with gratitude, but not the shallow kind. On the Second Sunday, we pause for Mother’s Day. And if we are honest, Black motherhood has never been soft or simple. It has been strategic. It has been sacrificial. It has been a quiet form of resistance. There are women in our lives who stretched what they had, carried what they should not have had to carry, and still found a way to pour into us. They prayed when there were no answers. They held families together when systems pulled them apart.
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So we do not just say thank you. We ask whether our lives reflect what they invested in us.
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Then, on the Fourth Sunday, we gather for Women’s Day. We do not treat this as a program. We treat it as a proclamation. We lift up women not simply for what they have done, but for who they are in the life of the church and the world. Strength, dignity, wisdom, and justice have always flowed through women who refused to be silenced, overlooked, or erased. Their witness calls us to a higher standard of faith and a deeper commitment to justice.
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At the same time, we continue the sacred work of strengthening our Building Fund. This is not just about bricks and mortar. It is about stewardship. It is about honoring what has been entrusted to us and preparing space for what God is still doing. We are not maintaining a structure. We are sustaining a legacy and making room for the future.
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Memories: We Do Not Forget
We are a people shaped by memory. Not nostalgia, but instruction. Those who came before us built with limited resources but limitless faith. They endured what they should not have had to endure and still created a place where God could be encountered and community could be formed. We honor them best not by looking back with sentiment, but by looking forward with responsibility. Because memory is not about feeling good. It is about staying grounded.
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This is also a season of transition. Graduates stepping into new chapters, families adjusting to new rhythms, and the church itself discerning what faithfulness looks like in this moment. These are not isolated developments. They are part of a larger story that God continues to write through us.
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Movement: We Build What We Believe
And then there is the work. Ministry is not abstract. It is embodied. It happens in real spaces, with real people, facing real challenges. So we commit ourselves to building what we believe. Not just in word, but in action. That means caring for one another. That means tending to the physical spaces where ministry happens. That means showing up with intention and integrity.
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And in the midst of all this, we lean into the work of Daniel Black. His writing asks hard questions about identity, memory, and truth. Because the stories we tell are not neutral. They shape what we believe is possible. If we tell incomplete stories, we live incomplete lives. But if we tell the truth, we open the door to something deeper, something freer.
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May also calls us to care for our bodies and minds through Stroke Awareness Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. We cannot carry the weight of our calling while neglecting our own well-being. So we pay attention. We check on one another. We take the call to wholeness seriously.
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Each Sunday, we will lift practical ways to improve the human condition—because faith that does not engage real life is not yet resurrection faith. May is not just about what God has done. It is about what God is doing. And what God is doing through us. God repairs. God restores God raises. And Mount Moriah rises with God.​
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Seven Intentional Ways We Rise in May
Formation, then action, then multiplication.
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1. Remember your history
Learn it. Write it. Share it. Memory is orientation.
2. Tell the truth about your life
Name what shaped you. Healing begins with honesty.
3. Honor Black women in action
Protect, support, and uplift. Honor is a practice.
4. Take your health seriously
Make the appointment. Change the habit. Sustain your life.
5. Invest in the next generation
Give, mentor, and open doors. What you plant will rise.
6. Build what you believe in
Support the work. Show up. Faith requires participation.
7. Celebrate, but keep moving
Give thanks, then take the next step. Progress is not the finish line.
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Progress Report
This season at Mount Moriah, we walked the road from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday with purpose—and with power.
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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.
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But this year, we did more than remember. We witnessed a repair.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We are Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church. We are Rooted to Rise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.