My dear Zion Memorial Missionary Baptist Church Family, I am typing this message to you less than an hour before the new year of 2020 will begin. In a little while, my family and I will kneel together and pray in the new year with hearts expecting for God to bless us greatly in 2020 as He did in 2019. While it would be common to wish you a Happy New Year, I think, as a Christian, it may be more appropriate to pray that you will have a Joyful New Year. I believe that we have

My Zion Memorial Church Family, It was such a joy to see so many of you at worship service yesterday. I pray that our coming together is always a blessing for you. I want to encourage each of you to come together as a church family tomorrow as we celebrate Watch Night at noon. We will sing, testify and praise God for His blessings bestowed upon us in 2019 and thank Him for what He is going to do in, through and for us in 2020. Greater is ahead of us. I hope and pray that, i

Beloved, I am excited about seeing those of you who will be in town on Sunday morning for worship service starting with Sunday School at 9:30. As a reminder, it is fifth Sunday and is therefore a CAYA (Come As You Are) Sunday. I encourage you to come casual and to invite family and friends to come with you. Maybe you can wear something new that you got for Christmas. It is the last Sunday of 2019. Let us usher it out by ushering in a worship service giving our God praise,

Beloved, As I wrote to you last Wednesday, if God so allowed, I would send you a message on this day, Christmas Day. Thank you Lord for allowing me to see another day, another Christmas Day. No one else is up in my house right now. I am the first to rise as is typically the case. My children are all now teenagers and young adults. So, they do not rise and run around the house like they used to do when they were much younger. I can recall my many Christmas Days spent in Ch

Church Family, I hope and pray me email finds you well. I am enjoying my time away with family but I so miss my ZMMBC Family and look forward to seeing you on Sunday. I found this article and wanted to share it with you. https://www.wschronicle.com/2019/12/local-church-celebrates-75th-anniversary/ Our celebration has been celebrated. Be blessed, Rev. Cain

Beloved, We are exactly one week away from Christmas. We have had an awesome weekend of celebration of 75 years of God leading and guiding Zion Memorial as a church family. We are blessed. Now, we get to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. When Jesus showed up, even beforehand, everything began to change. The world changed. People changed. History changed. Love changed. Hope changed. Expectations changed. When Jesus showed up, everything cha

Beloved, We are on the cusp of the 75th Church Anniversary banquet and worship service on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. God has done a mighty work through the faithful at Zion Memorial and we should be overjoyed to celebrate. So, we will be overjoyed and we will celebrate. But, it is not the passage of time that we truly should celebrate. No, it is the passage of time that is leading to the day that will come, the day when our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, return

Church Family, The 75th Anniversary celebration has gotten off to a phenomenal start with the Youth Choir Alumni concert on Friday evening. It was fantastic, well done and well attended, the Zion Memorial way. To help to enhance our celebration at the anniversary banquet, the committee is requesting additional pictures that may be shown at the event. All submitted may not be used and will be chosen at the committee’s discretion. If you have pictures you can email, please se

Church Family, I want to update you on a couple of church events that have occurred and will be upcoming. Yesterday was a great day for Zion Memorial. 75th Church Anniversary Chairperson Shaketa Rorie and I had the opportunity to speak on the church's behalf on The Light radio station with Anita "Boss Lady" Dean-Arnette. Those who listened in gave encouraging words that things went well and I believe the church should be pleased. In that vein, I want to encourage the church

Beloved, I hope and pray that your Thanksgiving holiday was truly a day of thanksgiving as we know that every day should be. I enjoyed time with family and friends while also thinking of you, my beloved Zion Memorial Missionary Baptist Church family. We spent some time remembering our loved ones who have transitioned to the other side of glory and we celebrated the recent homegoing of my father, our first Thanksgiving without him. Some of the things that we go through in lif