Our PastorReverend Marrell Riggins is the pastor of the Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church where he has been serving since 2015. He comes to Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church from Bristol Creek Missionary Baptist Church where he was then an associate minister. He is the husband of Mrs. Patrania Riggins for 28 years and a life time to go. While at Bristol Creek Missionary Baptist Church; Pastor Riggins served on the deacon board, as a Sunday School Assistant Superintendent, president of the young adult choir, field missionary for Brunswick Waccamaw Association. He is the son of Annie Wolfe and Lendale Bellamy. He has two sons Zachary Jamal Graham and Tyrien Mauriel Riggins. He has been married to Patrania Riggins for 28 days and he has a heart for God and God’s people.
We exist to connect people to God and each other with the word of God that reaches out locally and globally with God’s love.
Our Deacons
Deacons of the church is Chairman Deacon Claudie Hemingway, Deacon Bobby Hemingway, Deacon J.D. Hemingway, and Deacon Roy Hemingway. Our Deacons work together along with the Pastor to help both push and promote his vision and to also support and bring souls to christ. The Deacons has years of experience in helping to promote the things of Christ and the laws of the bible. The Deacons work hand in hand together to help make sure that the church is operating and functioning so that nothing prohibits the growth or hinders souls from coming to Christ. Acts 6:1-6 states and in those days, when the number of the disciples were multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were being neglected in the daily ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore brethen, look ye out amoung you seven me of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicholas a proselyte of Antioch: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
Timothy 3:8-10 states In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respecrt, sincere , not including in much wine, and not pursing dishonest gain.
Timothy 3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
Timothy 3:15 But tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to have thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
1 Timothy 5:7 And these things in charge, that they may be blameless.
Associate Minister
Rev. Maxine Hemingway is the daughter of the late Edward and Geneva Conyers raised in the Dothan community was saved and baptised at an early age and joined the New Light A.M.E. Church in Dothan, N.C. She later married Claudie Ray Hemingway and moved to the Cedar Branch Community and joined the Cedar Branch Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Rev. Jimmy Vereen. She was a member of the Cedar Branch Inspirational Choir. Rev. Hemingway answered the call into the ministry in the year of 2003 and preached her initial sermon on August 3, 2003. Rev. Hemingway has been in ministry and serving for 19 years. She teaches the new members class and aids the pastor. She also is an advocate for Jesus Christ and dedicates her life to ministry and preaching/teaching God's word.
