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Our Beginnings (edited by Bernard Wotton, and
by looking over old church bulletins)
| A few years before 1988, a group of people attempted to form a local MCC church in this Chattanooga TN area. It only lasted a short time. (If anyone knows about this time period, please let me know at BernardW69@aol.com. I had met one person by the name of John who knew of that event and even attended a few times. But by the time I met John, the group was no longer meeting, and I never thought to get details about that beginning, since I had not even known about the present MCC in Chattanooga TN.) |
1988
| Sometime towards the end of 1988, maybe
around Sept or Oct. a group of people from the state of Louisiana
came up to Chattanooga and wanted to start a local MCC
church. They got in contact with the Knoxville MCC
church in Knoxville TN. Under the direction of
Rev. Bob Galloway, pastor of the Knoxville MCC,
what was to become the local MCC church of Chattanooga became a parish
extension of the
Knoxville MCC.
Around six months later I found out that there was a
MCC
church in Chattanooga. At an AIDS Memorial Service held at the Grace
Episcopal Church that I attended, Rev. Galloway prayed
during that service, and he was introduced as the pastor of the
local MCC church. I stayed after that service to meet
him and to find out where they were meeting. They met Sunday nights
at the Unitarian Universalist Church. I started
attending the local MCC services the next Sunday. Then a few weeks
later I attended their membership classes, and joined MCC of
Chattanooga (MCCC). Rev. Galloway could
not attend and preach at every service since he pastored
the Knoxville MCC. Other people spoke and
various student clergy from various MCC churches in
the greater Tennessee-Georgia-Alabama areas ministered to us. |
1989 - 1990
| Some time during this time period, Ms. Felicia Fontaine, a MCC student clergy, became our part-time Minister/ Pastor. She was from one of the Atlanta MCC churches, and drove up to Chattanooga most every weekend. |
Years ??
| Rev. Polly Ireland (Pastor Polly) became our first pastor (part-time). During her stay we began buying the building that we currently occupy. Fifteen years later that present church building is paid in full. |
Years ??
| Rev. Chip Carson of Atlanta became our interim pastoral leader. |
Years ??
| Rev. Keith Mozingo (Pastor Keith) became our second pastor (part-time). During his leadership we changed our church name to the present name of "The Rock Metropolitan Community Church", or the short form, "The Rock MCC". |
Years ??
| Rev. Tyrone Sweeting (Pastor Ty) became our third pastor (1st full-time pastor). His pastorate ended January 26, 2007. |
2007
| Rev. Lisa Heilig became our intentional interim pastoral leader. |
Years ??
| Rev. Tessie Mandeville became our Temporary Pastor. |
2010 June 6 to present
| Rev. Brad Rice became our Provisional Pastor, then six months later he became our fourth pastor (part-time). |
(View past
church calendars
to see who preached on past Sundays.)