East Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Association
On Aug. 10, 1895 at Ledge Rock Baptist Church in Wake County, where Rev. A. B. Wyche was pastor, a resolution was passed in the Cedar Grove Association dividing the Cedar Grove Association into two separate Associations, with the Lynchburg and Durham Railroad as the dividing line, thus the East Cedar Grove Missionary Baptist Association was born. The mission of East Cedar Grove is to teach Christianity based on the Holy Bible; preach inspirational sermons for living; encourage wholesome family values; provide leadership training for members and support local and foreign mission.” The goals and objectives of The Association are: to provide the arena and the instrumentality for member churches and auxiliaries to work corporately and cooperatively around the following concerns:
1) Create a culture of spiritual fellowship
2) Respond to the needs of members and member churches
3) Religious education in member churches;
4) Assistance to persons in member churches who are attempting to persue Higher Education
5) Concerted action to enhance the quality of life and opportunity for persons in our communities
6) Maintenance and wise use of the Association’s properties and resources
7) Provide Christian and sympathetic assistance and counsel to churches which may seek the same from the Association
8)Support affiliates that include the General Baptist Convention of NC, the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. and the Lott Carey Convention. Member churches are to uphold and teach Baptist doctrine, forms of worship and polity
Our Covenant
Having been led, as we believe by the Spirit of God, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour and, on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God, and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.
We engage, therefore by the aid of the Holy Spirit to walk together in Christian love; to strive for the advancement of this church, in knowledge, holiness, and comfort; to promote its prosperity and spirituality; to sustain its worship, ordinances, discipline, and doctrines; to contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the gospel through all nations.
We also engage to maintain family and secret devotions; to religiously educate our children; to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances; to walk circumspectly in the world; to be just in our dealings, faithful in our engagements, and exemplary in our deportment; to avoid all tattling, backbiting, and excessive anger; to abstain from the sale of, and use of, intoxicating drinks as a beverage; to be zealous in our efforts to advance the kingdom of our Savior.
We further engage to watch over one another in brotherly love; to remember one another in prayer; to aid one another in sickness and distress; to cultivate Christian sympathy in feeling and Christian courtesy in speech; to be slow to take offense, but always ready for reconciliation and mindful of the rules our our Saviour to secure it without delay.
We moreover engage that when we remove from this place we will, as soon as possible, unite with some other church where we can carry out the spirit of this covenant and the principles of God’s Word.
