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ABOUT US
At CMBC Laurel, we believe God invites us to come as we are – and, He desires to not leave us there. In fact, God pursues us to rescue us from our brokenness, which separates us from Him.
We’re here to help you discover all God desires for you. I’d love to meet you!
OUR VISION
"Striving to be all that God would have us to be through: expressing the Love and Unity that compassionately sense the needs of one another and that joyfully meet those needs in the spirit of putting the other person first, so that our congregation grows up together into the fullness of the image of Jesus Christ."
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the verbally and plenarily inspired Word of God (Matthew 5:18; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). We hold the Bible to be inerrant in the original writings, infallible, God-breathed, and the complete and final authority for faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16-17). The Holy Spirit was the divine author of Scripture (2 Peter 1:21). While still using the individual personalities of the human authors, the Spirit superintended them to insure that they wrote precisely what He wanted written, without error or omission.
OUR COMMUNITY
By the good grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we have been faithfully serving the Laurel - Hattiesburg community since 1926.
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Dr. Vernon V.J. Graves
Senior Pastor
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Rev. Vincent Hutton
Youth Minister,
Director Media Team,
Chairman of Evangelical board
Rev. Garner
Associate Minister & Sunday School Superintendent
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Dion Doston
Financial Secretary
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Annette Cooley
Pianist & Program
Coordinator
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Bro. Harold Witherspoon
Treasurer
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Bridget Merrill
Church Clerk
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Bro. Charles Clayton
H.O.P.E. Ministry President
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