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   Cedron Brook

In early January of 1977, the late Deacon William F. Walton, the late Reverend Edgar L. Stevens and several other people of God met in Washington, DC under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.  Deacon Walton, who had earlier co-founded the historic Beulah Baptist Church in Alexandria, VA chaired the meeting.  Reverend Stevens, who pastored the now defunct General Baptist Church in SE Washington's Anacostia area, opened the meeting with a prayer.

The purpose of the meeting was to establish a church, that would offer Regular Missionary Baptist Services and Ordinances for senior citizens, and others, confined to long term care facilities and prisons.

Reverend Isaiah Webb was invited to the second meeting.  He brought with him letters testifying to his character from Reverend J. Lee Jefferson, chaplain D.C. Department of Corrections, and Deacon Nehemiah Taylor, an official of the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.  Reverend Webb was unanimously elected pastor of the unnamed assembly.

Each attendee was mandated to return to the next meeting with a prayerfully sought, suggested name for the church.  At the third meeting held on the last Saturday in January, 1077, the name Cedron Brook Baptist Church, conceived under divine inspiration by Reverend We, was adopted.  At this meeting, committees were established to seek incorporation, tax exemption, and to contact long term care facilities for service opportunities. Chaplain Toepper, Director of Pastoral Care, at D.C. Village, met with Reverend Stevens, Deacon Walton and Reverend Webb in the he Summer of 1977.

Cedron Brook Baptist Church held its first service in the D.C. Village Chapel on Sunday July 3, 1977.  The Church's first Communion was held on Sunday August 7 and was open to all baptized Believers in Jesus Christ.  The church was incorporated, received tax exempt status and later joined the National Baptist Convention.

Dedications, ordinations, communions, memorials services, funerals, baptisms, over two thousand religious services, twelve picnics and nineteen Christmas parties were held at D.C. Village before it was close din 1996, due to misguided intentions and poor management.

Upon the closing of the Village, members of Cedron Brook Baptist Church attempted to provide services to the many facilities where D.C. Village residents had been dispersed.  These efforts provide futile, but by the grace of God we have communed with Carroll Manor and St. Thomas More from 1996 until the present.  Cedron Brook Baptist Church was blessed to hold the first Protestant service at Carroll Manor after it opened in 1996.

Reverend Isaiah Webb, who has pastored the church since it was established, is an ordained Missionary Baptist minister.  He studied under Dr. Andrew Fowler and Dr. Charles Green who was his catechizer.  Reverend Webb attended Howard University and received undergraduate degrees from Federal City College and the University of the District of Columbia.  He has also received academic credits from the Department of Agriculture Graduate School and Baptist Bible College of Springfield, Missouri. Subsequent to completing graduate work in psychology, Reverend Webb was licensed by the government to perform psychological and mental health counseling.  He is an assistant to Reverend Wilbert H. Gray, Sr., Pastor of Washington Street Baptist Church, a son of General Baptist Church and Mt. Paran Baptist Church, and a past staff Chaplain of the D.C. Department of Corrections.  Reverend Web taught Sunday School at Mt. Joy Baptist Church in the 1950s and 1960s.  He is an active member of the missionary Baptist Ministers' Conference of Washington, D.C. and Vicinity and a past member of the National Association of Evangelicals.

 

     

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