FLORENCE -- Since 2007, Central Baptist Church has been raising money to build a new church.
Three years and a quarter-of-a-million-dollars later, the first service was conducted at the new building Sunday.
“The old church was deteriorating, the foundation was giving away, the top was beginning to sag,” Rev. Waymon Mumford, Central Baptist Church, said.
“The roofing and the size just didn’t have the capacity for the amount of members that we are anticipating,” Verdell Smalls, usher, said.
They didn’t have to move far, just across the parking lot at the Pocket Road church.
Parishioners marched around the old church on into the new church before the first service began Sunday morning.
“God has given us an opportunity to be able to move into a fellowship hall that is going to give us more room for classes and more of an opportunity to serve the Lord,” Smalls said.
“It makes me feel wonderful and realize the blessing of the Lord that has been place on this congregation this year,” Ronny Smith, deacon, said.
The new church is bigger and will hold more members as the church grows.
“God just worked a miracle to make this happen. I can see so many great things that we can do for the community with the church now having much more space,” Mumford said.
Church members said they hope to utilize their new space to offer more classes to church and community members.
Central Baptist Church will conduct a dedication ceremony on Aug. 22 at 4 p.m. After that service, the old building will be torn down.
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