Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church

  Bible Study 9:45am  Sunday Worship 10:45am

Sunday night and Wednesday night 6:00pm

Macedonia Sings

Pastor Elder 

Wilderness South of Canaan Early History of Macedonia

 Primitive Baptist Church from the V.B. Fillmore Collection

"...thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name." PS 61:5

To fully appreciate where you are, sometimes you must
take a few steps back and remember where you have been.
This is true, not only for individuals, but for groups of individuals as well. Macedonia

Progressive Primitive Baptist Church was formed from the congregation of
Mt. Paron "Old Baptist" at Deer Head Cove, DeKalb County, Alabama.
It appears that Mt. Paron may have been organized from the
Predestinarian Baptist Church of Christ located at Head Springs, near
Valley Head, DeKalb County, Alabama.

The church at Head Springs was constituted on September 19, 1835. In the

Old Testament, paran is a Hebrew word that means "full of caverns. "
Mount Paran in the Old Testament is a wilderness south
and west of Canaan, full of caverns.
This must be how north Alabama appeared to the early settlers.
From Deer Head Cove in the northern part of DeKalb Co Alabama
to Bucks Pocket in the western portion,
this area is rich with caves and caverns.
The word paran has been spelled paron and parion, however in the church minutes
it is spelled paran and paron. Based on Church Minutes it appears that
Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church was constituted before
Jun of 1851 in the area
known as Deer Head Cove, DeKalb County, Alabama.
The original members were from Kentucky.
They included family names like Blevins, Countiss, Adkins, Evans, Steel,
Hartline, Forster,. Barton, Cross, Burkhalter,
Holland, Young, Dean, Grigsby, Watson, Avans and many, many more.

From this faithful congregation came the organization of
Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church on Saturday before the
fourth Sunday in April 1872.
The presbytery was composed of
Elder J. N. Franklin, Elder Richard Blevins, Deacon William Koger

 and Eli Hill. The charter members were:
Enoch York Sr., Enoch York, Jr., G. W. Adkins, Hiziah McCollum,
Sylvania York, Nancy York, and Margaret Smith. The first pastor of Macedonia

Primitive Baptist Church was Elder Richard Blevins, 1800 - served the church 1872.

Early Servants of the Flock: Elder Robert J. Warren, 1824 - 1899 Elder John N. Franklin, 1824 - 1903

served the church 1891 Elder Alexander Graves, 1838 - 1916 Elder John Boydston, 1859 - 1945

 Elder Thomas S. Hall, 1850 - 1924 Elder Hamlin Chapman, 1867 - 1950 Elder Jessie Johnston,

1883 - 1953 Elder Joseph E. Stewart, 1871 - 1947 served the church

1924 - 1937 Elder William A. Pinkstaff, 1878 - served the church

1937 - 1947 Elder Marvin L. Dodd, 1916 - 1972 served the church 1948 and 1951-

1954 Elder Atlee B. Hall, 1911 - served the church 1950 Elder Herbert Chapman, twice.

Others who served as Pastor were Elders:

W. G, Bell.   Charles A. Scott (twice).  Joey Miller,  Ricky Harcrow,   Huey Glisson,

Lee Price. 

Our present Pastor is Elder Jim McGill

Ministers Ordained by Macedonia are:

Marvin Dodd,   A. B. Hall.   George York,   Herbert Chapman,   Khomer Beaty,

Doyle Kilgore,   Don Gilbert,   Don Burkhalter,   Greg Phillips,  Chris Hill and

Joe Lyda

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