Humble Beginnings

Sometime during the 1960’s,  Sister Julia Green, having take up residence in Texas City, Tx, began a visitation and witnessing program that proved fruitful in the results of souls being won to the Lord. She was ably assisted by Ollie and Connie Davis, a very dutiful husband and wife team. As time progressed, they were joined by Minister and wife team of Morris and Mysterious Roberts, during which time they began having meetings in the Mason Lodge on Bell Drive, in Texas City. They continued their labor through 1961 as a mission, also using revivals as a mean of outreach.  By early 1962, they moved on to the garage of the home owned by Ashton Jackson Jr. and his mother Louella Jackson.  After spending some time worshiping there, they moved to the store front of the Palmore Store, at the corner of Woodrow and Westward  also owned by Ashton Jackson Jr. and mother Louella Jackson. It is here that Pastor D. M. Deadrick became involved in the organizing effort of birthing the movement as an official local church. This was accomplished with the following six individuals as the charter members: Ollie Davis, Connie Davis, Vernice Green, Julia Green, Rosetta Ellis, and Lorraine Anne Jackson

A TIME TO BUILD

When the decade of the 80’s came the congregation expressed the need of having their own building in which to present their worship and praise to the Lord. This challenge was accepted, and after a period of prayer, consultation, and planning, their first major break came when land owned by Ashton Jackson Jr. And wife Willie Jackson, at the corner of Woodrow and Westward streets in Texas City was donated to the congregation for the purpose of erecting the structure.

The entire project took approximately five years and the debt free edifice was dedicated by the Church of God of Prophecy presiding State Bishop Clive Jared in 1985.

OUR LEADERSHIP LEGACY  

• Morris Roberts, who was highly instrumental in forming this local church, was installed as our first Pastor in 1962 and served for six months.  

• Sister Rosetta Ellis: 1962 -1996. She served until the time of her demise.  The congregation experience much growth during Sister Ellis tenure as Pastor.  That growth was evidenced mainly in the area of “extended family” groups, the main ones being: Jackson, Green, Ellis, and Davis. Pastor (Mother) Ellis is to be highly commended for her faith, dedication and sacrifice to this local congregation in having nurtured them through the long period of over three decades.

• Bishop Herbert  and Beverly Coleman 1996 - 2006. Over the period, three family groups were added to the local body; the Delaney’s, Mitchell’s, and Johnson’s. This period also produced the body’s first permanent Deacon in Paul Delaney.

• Bishop Compton and Margaret Wharton: 2006 – 2013. The pastoral pair hailed from South America, and as such were the first of a different culture and ethnicity to function as the spiritual leaders of the local congregation. Three new family groups were added during this time; the Williams, Evans, and Archibald’s.

• Kenneth Michael Benjamin Jr. 2013- current.  Pastor Benjamin serves as Senior Pastor and Teacher of this thriving congregation in Texas City, TX. He continues to build on the solid foundation established by those who paved the way. Pastor Benjamin is leading the congregation in the same direction with new initiatives.

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OUR FUTURE IS BRIGHT

New horizons await us in Texas City. Such a vision will enable the local congregation to fulfill its part of presenting Christ as the source of healing to society’s racial divide. There is also the aspect of going  beyond the heritage of prominent family groups and reaching out to new family structures and the unchurched. A bright future awaits the Church in Texas City. We are truly a Christ centered, biblically based, spiritually led church.