Worship at Lloyd

Sundays at 3:00 pm

New Year, New Name  at
“Mother Lloyd” Presbyterian Church    
Come,  Worship and Celebrate  

On  January 5, 2025, the new Mother Lloyd Presbyterian Church will begin holding  worship services each  Sunday at 3 p.m.  This is an exciting effort to revitalize and expand this historic congregation that is the Mother church to Black Presbyterian congregations in the Winston Salem area.     The Worship  and Communion  service on January 5, will be led by Rev. Timothy Bates, who is the pastor of Cameron and Calvary Presbyterian Churches in Statesville, N. C.     

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Listed on the National Register of Historic places,  “Mother Lloyd”  is also one of the oldest church  structures in downtown Winston Salem.  It is the “Mother”  Church to  Grace Presbyterian, founded in 1907,  and to Dellabrook Presbyterian (founded in 1956)  Churches. 

 

Mother Lloyd,  which celebrated its 154th Church Anniversary in September,  was formed in 1870 as part of a national movement by the northern missionaries to establish African-American Presbyterian Churches in the South after the Civil War.  Mother  Lloyd’s first members were originally members of First Presbyterian Church, Winston Salem.  

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“Mother Lloyd”, once considered to be the hub of Black Community,  survived the urban renewal that destroyed the thriving black businesses along the  highway 52 corridor.   Mother Lloyd is  a member of Salem Presbytery, and  continues to do outreach to the local community and to a children’s home and school  in Ngong Kenya through  the Sister to Sister International  Outreach Ministry that brings wholeness into the broken lives of women and children in the  region.  The entire  community is invited to come celebrate this new beginning with Mother Lloyd, as we reach out to the Winston Salem Community and  continue the  historic legacy of Lloyd Presbyterian Church by providing a variety of ministries to serve future generations.  

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For more information please contact  Purity Ruchugo (336.655.0347)  or  Elder  Rachel Jackson (336.391.8335). We are located at  748 North Chestnut Street, Winston Salem, N. C.