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In the EMZ Youth Ministry, we grow students to know, love and serve God. we strive to create an environment where our Youth can encounter God through Biblical Teaching, Worship, Fellowship, Missions and Ministry Involvement.
A team of awesome adult leaders and creative Youth together, work diligently to ensure all Youth feel God’s love.
EMZ Youth Ministry provides several programs that include Drill Team, Oratorical Coaching, Music Ministry, Liturgical Dance and others. Many of these programs present opportunities for our Youth to creatively express their FAITH.

The Dr. William M. Downs Aid to Education Scholarship

In 1967, East Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday School established an Aid to Education Fund as an effort on the part of the Sunday School to share in the advancement toward the college education of all its students. Unlike other scholarship grants and aid funds, this program is designed to give financial assistance to any and all students of East Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday School, provided they meet this one requirement: That they have been regular and active in their attendance for three (3) years in the church school immediately prior to going to college. In February 1976, the name was changed to the W.M. Downs Aid to Education Fund, as a living monument in honor of the late Dr. William M. Downs, because of his interest in youth and education. Updates have occurred during the 40+ years of the funds existence, in 1993 money was allocated to the fund from the church budget. Currently the is for all students of the church entering post secondary education within 2 years of high school graduation. They must be bona fide members and active in one or more auxiliaries of the church for 2 or 3 years prior to applying. We welcome contributions for this on-going program. We even solicit your cooperation when preparing that last will or bequeath. What better way to be remembered than as one who showed concern for the educational development of these young people whose religious training and Christian lives we helped mold.

The Shirley Coley Scholarship

The Shirley Coley Scholarship was developed by Brother Zeddie Coley in loving honor of his wife Shirley Coley. Zeddie and Shirley are Elder Members of East Mt. Zion Baptist Church; an Elder Member is one who has been a member for 50 years or more years and has supported the church with their time, talents and monies. The purpose of the scholarship is to assist young people with their goal of obtaining a college degree. The applicant must have a GPA of 2.7 or higher and submit letters of recommendation.

Applications may be obtained from the Church Office. Contributions will be greatly appreciated and used to help young people take advantage of educational opportunities available to them. Applicants may reapply for the scholarship. Applicant does not have to be a member of East Mt. Zion Baptist Church. (Preference will be given to a member in good standing).

The Randy Hardy Scholarship Fund

Reverend Randy Hardy was an Associate Minister at East Mt. Zion Baptist and was committed to the Tithing Principal.
At the time of his death in 1991 Sister Patricia Hardy invested 10% of an insurance benefit she received to establish a scholarship fund for assistance to East Mt. Zion high school graduates in their pursuit of higher education.

Applicants must be members of East Mt. Zion; have been active in ministries of the Church; and, be accepted by an accredited college or university. Applications may be attained from the Youth Ministry Department or Scholarship Committee members, with an award being made annually and renewable for three (3) years.

Currently, the awardee receives an initial check in the amount of $800.00, with balance of $1900.00 divided over three year renewal period.

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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.