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The church was founded in 1939 in Scottdale as Travelers Rest Baptist Church. [1] In 1983, it moved to Decatur and adopted its current name. Eddie Long took over as pastor in 1987. At the time, the church had only 300 members. In 1994, New Birth became a member of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. [2]
In April 2000, Pastor Jamal Bryant founded the Empowerment Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, and served for 18 years. [2] In December 2018, he became pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia. [3] [4]
Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017) was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017. When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church, there were 300 church members, which grew to 25,000. [3]
• Second Baptist Church — 419 N. Buchanan St. Our Sunday worship service now starts at 10:45 a.m., and Bible study begins at 9:30 a.m. Additionally, we hold a Wednesday fellowship dinner at 5: ...
Mount Zion Baptist Church Nashville: TN Joseph W. Walker III 21,000 [3] Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship: New Birth Missionary Baptist Church: Stonecrest: GA Jamal H. Bryant 10,000 [33] Baptist: New Hope Christian Fellowship: Honolulu: HI Wayne Cordeiro 14,500 [citation needed] Foursquare Church: Yes (>100 + online) New Life Church Conway ...
Bishop Bryant is the father of Dr. Jamal Harrison Bryant, Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Dekalb County, Georgia near Lithonia and Dr. Thema Simone Bryant-Davis. Jamal’s ex-wife Gizelle Bryant is a star on the reality series The Real Housewives of Potomac.
Adams likes to joke that she’s been around Zion Baptist Church “for 1,000 years,” but Zion’s legacy in Louisville only stretches back to 1877, about 57 years before Adams was born.
The church was the setting for her mother's funeral. Despite her leaving of the church coinciding with Bishop Eddie Long's settlement agreement in sexual misconduct lawsuits he had fought since September 2010, King said that she had planned to leave New Birth Missionary Baptist Church for weeks.