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Community Family Fun Day 2025

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:20:58 GMT

Cherry Grove Annual Community Family Fun Day

E.B. Burroughs Lodge Hosts Charity Benefit Dinner

goodsoncy@gmail.com (Carlton Goodson) — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 00:34:45 GMT

Soup Kitchen Spotlight

goodsoncy@gmail.com (Carlton Goodson) — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:07:32 GMT

Darlington Community Soup Kitchen

goodsoncy@gmail.com (Carlton Goodson) — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 14:01:12 GMT

Cherry Grove hosted community soup kitchen in Darlington

Cherry Grove hosted the Darlington Community Soup Kitchen on February 3. We provided over 130 hot meals to those in need. Check out our team in action!

Black History Month 2024

goodsoncy@gmail.com (Carlton Goodson) — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:00:00 GMT

Black History Month 2024

In honor of Black History month Fulfillment hour will host a special program on Sunday, February 18th at 9am in the Fellowship hall.

The program is titled: Little Known Black History Facts about Darlington. Bryan Gandy, the Darlington County Historian and Museum Director, will be our facilitator.

A light breakfast will be served starting at 8:30am. There is so much information we did not know about our history in Darlington. It will be exciting and interactive. You will not be disappointed. Bring others with you. Find out about the true Black history of Darlington.

Call Joyce Everette or Lurline Jerry with any questions.

Second Sunday: African colors (green, yellow, black or red)

Third Sunday: African attire

Forth Sunday: Old Fashion Day

Forth Sunday: Dinner will be served. There will be a sign-up set in the fellowship hall for those interested in bringing one of their favorite old fashion dishes. If possible, please use aluminum pans. Thank you for your support

Reverend Dr. E.B. Burroughs

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:01:27 GMT

Special Tribute to the late Reverend Dr. E.B Burroughs

Pastor Emeritus Rev. Dr. E.B Burroughs was born on July 27, 1937. He became the fourth Pastor of Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church in 1963.

Rev. Dr. E. Burroughs is a 1964 graduate of Morris College with a BS in Math and Science and a 1972 graduate of Morris College of Religion: BD. In 1973 Rev. Dr. E.B. Burroughs received his BD in Guidance and Counseling from South Carolina State University. Rev. Dr. E.B was very instrumental in the building of the new edifice for Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

Education has always been Rev. Dr. E.B Burroughs drive for himself and congregants. In 2000 Rev. Dr. E.B Burroughs received a Master of Divinity degree from Samuel D. Proctor School of Religion. In 2002 he received a Christian Educator Certification from Samuel D. Proctor School of Religion. Rev. Dr. E.B Burrough received his Doctorate of Ministry from Virginia Union University in Lynchburg. In 2010, Rev. Dr. E.B Burroughs received a Masters in Christian Education.

During his 55-year tenure at Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Burroughs has been instrumental in organizing many ministries, including Deaconess Ministry, Pastor’s Aide, Gospel Choir, Combined Choir, EB Burrough Young Adult Ushers, Jubilee Choir, The Willing Workers, EB Junior Ushers, The Tiny Tot Ushers, Tuesday Morning and Tuesday Night Bible Study, The BTU Group, the Youth Group, The Praise Dance Ministry, the Young Adult Ministry, The Couples’ Ministry, and numerous other activities for Senior Adults and families. While at Cherry Grove, Pastor Burroughs has become a husband, father and grandfather.

He was very active in many organizations in and around the State of South Carolina. Because of his dedication and love for doing God’s work, Cherry Grove is affiliated with numerous Conventions on the Local, State and National levels. He was always actively involved in teaching, preaching, counseling and serving in whatever capacity passes his way. He held the position of Director of the Cheraw Extension of Morris College Continuing Pastoral and Christian Education Program.

Through all of this, he was still a devoted husband to his wife of 50+ years, Doris, his children Candace and Calvin, and their grandchildren. The Lord in His great wisdom called his faithful son home on the day we celebrated the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Friday, December 25, 2020.

The Cherry Grove Missionary Baptist Church is forever indebted to Rev. Dr. E.B. Burroughs for his loyalty and dedication. We love you with an everlasting LOVE and thank God for sending you our way.

Contemporary Music in the Church

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 18:00:13 GMT

Are things being taken too far - Are we in a different era - What are your thoughts?

Recently, Bishop William Murphy of the Dream Center Church of Atlanta had a video go viral showing that he allowed the Hip Hop song, “Swag Surfin’” to play in his New Year’s Eve service. He says that there were over 100 people who accepted Christ during that service. Regardless, numerous people have taken to social media to provide their opinion. Many of those who have weighed in have concluded that the act of playing this type of music in church is disrespectful. Some have even gone as far as to call it sacrilege. Bishop Murphy maintains that this type of thing isn’t new to his congregation that has been established for close to 20 years.

Music in the church is a multicolored tapestry. You could easily find gospel music with the tonality of every mainstream genre from instrumentals to heavy metal and hardcore rap. In fact, the 1980’s brought an end to the prevalence of disco music which was slated to be a form of gospel to save the souls of those who frequented the dance clubs on Saturday nights. Since then, we’ve had popular music artists who fuse their genres with a gospel rendition. As of late we’ve even had popular gospel artist create collaborative works with artists who are outside the gospel genre, the latter, in attempt to attract many non-church goers to spark interest to the gospel story of salvation. If you follow the history of the church in general but that of the black church in particular, you can see that the music of the church has always evolved to fit the tastes of a youthful generation. From the time of the juke joint and the blues to rhythm and blues, to ballads, and now the influences of pop and hip hop.

We’ve gotten so far away from tradition that even our hymns are not the hymns of the Orthodox or Catholic liturgy from which it is all derived. This is because music molds to and takes on the shape of the people and demographic it serves. If anything, we can probably say that music is the predicator of tradition and that sometimes traditions stick because of the refusal of a demographic to give way to new influences and ways to appeal to a new, younger, or different demographic. During the period of enlightenment in American Christianity – known as Protestantism – and the era of tent revivals and services, there were all kinds of tactics that the revivalists used to awe and wow the crowds who looked on. There were those who used acrobatics. Some used theatrics. Others used their influence from professional sports. With each performance they were looking to win souls of the masses to the church and ultimately to salvation through Christ Jesus.

In the case of Dream Center Church of Atlanta, we haven’t seen anything that has not been perpetrated since the beginning of Protestantism. We know that there is a call upon us all to make disciples as we preach the kingdom. Christ said in Matthew 9:35-38 that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. In a time when the youth have access to the social ills of society and its influences and the access to desensitizing images and everyday trappings, do you think that Bishop Murphy was out of line or is he setting an example of what a laborer of Christ truly is to this younger generation? What are some things that we can employ within our local communities to be more appealing to the youth and bring others to faith in Christ?