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Faith Journey With God

I am immensely humbled to have been called by God and this church leadership to serve as the Senior Pastor of East Mount Zion Baptist Church. And, I do not take this appointment for granted. As I engage in this faith journey with God and the congregation of East Mount Zion Baptist Church, and as we continually pray and listen for God’s voice, I am filled with both the burden and the joy associated with this pastoral assignment.
I have been called during a time when more schools with predominately African-American student populations are being closed in Cleveland resulting in the continued decline of educational progress among inner-city black students and severe overcrowding in the classrooms of the remaining urban schools.
I recognize that my call to the East Mount Zion Baptist Church occurs simultaneously during a time where crime in the streets continues to transform our once vibrant neighbourhoods into crime zones and where parents live with the constant fear that their children will not return home safely.
Too many young people and mature adults have added “non” as the preferred prefix to any identification as a “Christian.” this degradation of our identity in Christ is acknowledgement of their disdain for ‘the church” as a holy institution. It is also evidence of their abrupt resignation from any denominational or church-based affiliation to pursue refuge or safety in everything or any place other than the Church of Jesus Christ.
As we begin the spiritual journey of pastor and congregation of East Mount Zion Baptist Church, the three examples above are just the beginning of the list of situations where we must infuse Jesus Christ into our culture. We must begin this journey acknowledging the ambiguity surrounding the future and validity of the Church of Jesus Christ to our culture. And, we must acknowledge that TODAY this ambiguity speaks volumes louder that the desire of our community and our world to hear the Name of Jesus and acknowledge His Presence and Relevance today.
In spite of these disparaging realities, as a believer in Christ and pastor of this Church, I am filled with a greater joy and hope to overcome these and other spiritual and cultural challenges because of my faith, our faith in Jesus Christ. As I embrace my call to lead East Mount Zion Baptist Church and to pastor its members into the future, I am hemmed in with the favour, mercy, and wisdom of God and the models of obedience, faithfulness, and perseverance of our forebearers. Our cloud of spiritual witnesses includes Pastor William Downs, Pastor A. Charles Bowie, and many unnamed heroes and heroine who tilled the ground for us to stand. We will look toward Christ, our strength made perfect, the author and finisher of our faith, for clear vision and direction. Christ, through the Holy Spirit, will endow me and our congregation with the wisdom and understanding to face any challenge that will arise against us the East Mount Zion Baptist Church in the years to come as we pursue Jesus Christ and seek to reconcile our community and our world to the LORD God Almighty.
Servant of God,
Reverend Brian Cash, M. DIV
Pastor Elect
East Mount Zion Baptist Church
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Protect Your Season

August 18, 2024 - by Rev. Brian A. Cash, Pastor

Exodus 1:6-22

6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.