Allegany County Maryland--History

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Ebenezer Full Gospel Church to honor McIntyres

CUMBERLAND — Ebenezer Full Gospel Baptist Church, 861 Columbia Ave., will host a celebration marking the 22nd anniversary of service for Pastor John B. McIntyre Sr. and first lady Earline McIntyre Sunday beginning at 4 p.m. Pastor Stephon Knox executive pastor of Ebenezer, will be the speaker and Pastor Darin Allen, gospel recording artist and founder and senior pastor of Greater Works Ministries Church, Columbus, Ohio, will be a guest.

The Cumberland Times-News September 7, 2007

Ebenezer Baptist to mark pastor's 18th anniversary

The congregation of Ebenezer Full Gospel Baptist Church, 861 Columbia Ave., will celebrate the 18th anniversary of its pastor's and first lady's service today through Sunday. Bishop John B. McIntyre Sr. and Evangelist Earline McIntyre have been traveling from their native Washington, D.C, to serve as pastors of Ebenezer for the past 18 years.

Ebenezer Baptist Church

The Ebenezer (African) Baptist Church congregation was organized in the spring of 1875 by the Reverends H.J. Chandler of the Bedford Street Baptist Church and James Nelson of Washington. Many of the church members, numbering about 15 to 20 at that time, worked at the B&O Rolling Mill. Worship services were held on the third floor of a building located between Mechanic and Liberty Streets in downtown Cumberland. This served the congregation until a real church building was constructed.

As noted in the (Cumberland) Daily News, the Reverend G.W.M. Lucas, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, conducted the religious services held June 20, 1909 at the cornerstone laying ceremony for a new church being erected at 8 Cumberland Street. The Ebenezer Church on Cumberland Street replaced an earlier church that was erected in 1876 when the congregation was organized that same year by Reverend Lewis Hicks.

Dickerson AME Church renovating, reaching out

CHUCK BIEDKA
Times-News Staff Writer

FROSTBURG —

Joyful music and praise emanated from the Dickerson African Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday afternoon as the congregation made plans to expand its ministry. Their base is a historic white-frame church that sits on top a hill at West Mechanic Street. The church is looking at land for an adult day care center, said the Rev. Constance Wheeler.

Depicted in this photograph is the 1988 anniversary planning committee of the Dickerson A.M.E. Church of Frostburg. The Dickerson A.M.E. Church observed its 143rd anniversary on Sunday, March 13, 1988 at 5:30 p.m.

Left to right are Mrs. Dorothy Davis, Ms. Leticia Shelton, Mrs. Darlene Shelton, Robert Harper, Mrs. Josephine Harper, the Reverend Barbara Barbour, pastor of Dickerson A.M.E., and Nellie Small.

Ursula Franklin (1937-2004) was elected to the Cumberland City Council in 1988 and served through 2000. She is one of only six women to have been successfully elected to this position. The button portrayed here is from 1998 when after winning in the Democratic Primary, she was unsuccessful in the General Election in her bid for Allegany County Commissioner.

"Walk in the Spirit, Live in Peace"

The Dickerson African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) congregation of Frostburg was established in 1845. The original church was located on Ormand Street and known as Hall's Chapel. In 1881 the present Dickerson A.M.E. Church was constructed at the corner of West Mechanic and Pine Streets. From 1924 and throughout the 1930s, circuit-riding ministers served A.M.E. churches in Frostburg, Westernport, and Oakland, Maryland, sometimes traveling to all three congregations in a single day.

Thanks to the efforts of Joseph Mckenzie (formerly of Cumberland and a neighborhood childhood friend) and Byron Schulten of Cumberland, a vast amount of information pertaining to Cumberland's Sumner Cemetery is now located on the historical website, Find A Grave.