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East Memphis is home to many churches of various denominations. The largest churches are Christ United Methodist Church with 6,000 members, [4] St. Louis Catholic Church with about 5,000 members, [5] Second Presbyterian Church with more than 4,800 members, [6] and Highpoint Church with more than 3,500 members. Other places of worship include ...
Bellevue Baptist was founded in 1903 by Central Baptist Church as a mission church on the outskirts of Memphis. With a small $1,000 gift from member Fannie Jobe, Pastor Thomas Potts led the congregation to build a one-room stone chapel at the corner of Bellevue and Erskine Avenues.
By 1930, about 2832 members lived in the Middle and East Tennessee Districts. On April 18, 1965, the Memphis Stake, Tennessee's first, was created by Howard W. Hunter of the Quorum of the Twelve. On March 15–16, 1997, more than 6500 people attended a meeting where church president Gordon B. Hinckley spoke in the Knoxville Civic Coliseum .
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During the early 1970s, the church voted to allow an African American family to join, being the first Southern Baptist Church in Memphis to do so. During the 1980s, the church began ordaining women to the diaconate. During July 1994, Rev. Dr. Earl C. Davis led approximately half of the church membership to plant Trinity Baptist Church, in Cordova.
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The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America that covers roughly Middle Tennessee.A single diocese spanned the entire state until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee was created; the Diocese of Tennessee was again split in 1985 when the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee was formed. [1]
Oak Court Partners, LLC bought the Macy's at Oak Court Mall in East Memphis on Aug. 5. The purchase price was $7 million, Poag Development Group CEO and President Josh Poag said Friday.