Get to Know Us
Meet Our Pastor
Richard E. Carter
Pastor Carter has 41 years in ministry, having served churches in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Georgia. He believes in what he calls “BTP,” which stands for Biblical Teaching and Preaching. One of his primary focuses is evangelism followed by discipleship, which produces spiritual and church ...
Sharing the Gospel, Nurturing Faith Through the Years
We have been a cornerstone in High Ridge, Alabama, spreading the message of Jesus Christ. As a Christian church, founded in 1874, our mission is to promote faith, love, and service, helping individuals grow in their walk with Christ. Over the years, we’ve remained dedicated to sharing the Gospel and fostering a ...
What We Believe
We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His Virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory.
We believe that the salvation of man, who is sinful and lost, is instantaneous and accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God when the repentant sinner — enabled by the Holy Spirit — responds in faith. The salvation is wholly of God by the grace on the basis of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. All the redeemed are kept by God’s power and are thus secure in Christ forever.
We believe in the Spirit-filled life. As the supernatural and sovereign Agent in regeneration, the Holy Spirit baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ at the moment of salvation. The Holy Spirit also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, empowers them for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption.
We believe in the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the unsaved; the saved unto the resurrection of life and the unsaved unto the resurrection of damnation.
We believe that all who put their faith in Jesus Christ are immediately placed by the Holy Spirit into one united spiritual Body, the church, of which Christ is the head. The purpose of the church is to glorify God by building its members up in the faith, by instruction of the word, by fellowship, by keeping the ordinances, and by advancing and communicating the gospel to the entire world. The formation of the church, the Body of Christ, began on the Day of Pentecost and will be completed at the coming of Christ for His own at the rapture.
Our Denomination
The Christian Methodist Episcopal* Church, known as the CME Church, has grown to be a significant Christian denomination with more than 650,000 members throughout the continental US and Alaska and missions in Nigeria, Ghana, Haiti, and Jamaica. It is inclusive in its membership, welcoming everyone regardless of race, color, national origin, or economic condition. The CME Church was organized on December 16, 1870, as the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. In May 1954, the name was changed to the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The CME church was organized by former slaves who had been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, but who, upon their freedom, requested their own separate and independent religious organization. Consequently, the CME church is the only historically independent black Methodist body organized with the full cooperation, support, ecclesiastical, and legal authority of the white denomination from which it came.