. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . moor Memorial Church Bus Pioneer Memorial church is a memo-rial to Joseph Pilmoor, the first ministerof the Methodist church, who preachedin North Carolina at Currituck Court-house on September 28, 1772, the firstsermon by a Methodist minister. He wassent by Mr. Wesley and the conferenceof England in 1769 to serve in America. The church stands some 200 yardssouth of the point of the old court housein Currituck village, an entirely ruralcommunity. The complete cost including fixturesand landscaping was in excess of $22,- the true servant of the com
. North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . moor Memorial Church Bus Pioneer Memorial church is a memo-rial to Joseph Pilmoor, the first ministerof the Methodist church, who preachedin North Carolina at Currituck Court-house on September 28, 1772, the firstsermon by a Methodist minister. He wassent by Mr. Wesley and the conferenceof England in 1769 to serve in America. The church stands some 200 yardssouth of the point of the old court housein Currituck village, an entirely ruralcommunity. The complete cost including fixturesand landscaping was in excess of $22,- the true servant of the community andchurch. The Sunday school enrollment „ priorto use of the bus was 130 with an aver-age attendance of some 86. The presentenrollment is 186 with an average forthe quarter ending March 1, 1932, eightmonths later, of 148. This is largelydue to the bus. The picture is of the official boardand pastor, showing the front of thechurch and the bus. The minister, A. Tharpe, fourth in the front row,reading from the left, and Miss Maud. Bus at Memorial Church, Currituck, N. C. 000, paid for in three years by member-ship and friends and a donation fromthe Duke Foundation of $6,000. Pilmoor Memorial church was startedunder the pastorate of Rev. C. T. Thriftand Miss Maud C. Newbury, Sundayschool superintendent, also superinten-dent of public instruction, and the com-bined energies of a few leading mem-bers of Asbury and Baxters Methodistchurches, which were in a dying condi-tion and without Sunday schools andvery poor attendance. These two churchesconsolidating were some eight milesapart. The work so nobly begun by T. Thrift in his last year, in co-ope-ration of the faithful, was in no waypermitted to lag under the new pastor,Rev. J. A. Tharpe, who with the inspira-tion of the congregation paid off all in-debtedness at the rate of $7,500 per year. The church has a membership of 128,reaching over a distance of 20 miles. On July 5, 1931, this church launcheda new phase
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