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About Dayspring
Old West Durham Neighborhood
May 8, 2002
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| E.K.Powe school looking from the corner of Knox, 1910 |
In the summer of 1907, a group of ministers and workers conducted a tent revival on Broad Street. Among the workers that day was Wesleyan minister Rev. Shuber Williams who followed up the meeting with services in different homes for the benefit of new converts to the Wesleyan faith. On January 10, 1908, thirty charter members organized the West Durham Wesleyan Church at the Hillsboro Road home of JE Conway (near Ninth Street).
The new church worshiped where it could; in homes, brush arbors, tents, store buildings and halls. In 1915, the congregation erected a small frame church and belfry at 922 Ninth Street (across from what is now the Magnolia Grill). In 1935, the sanctuary was lengthened 30 feet. Twenty years later, a two-story education wing was added in the back (towards Iredell).
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| Dayspring Fellowship facility with expansions |
In 1979, the church merged with another Wesleyan congregation, welcomed new members from the fire-damaged Pilgrim Holiness Church on Hale Street, and moved to a new location on Cole Mill Road. Today, the Dayspring Fellowship worships in the original church on Ninth Street.
(see more on early West Durham churches)
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Dayspring Fellowship exists to equip its members in using
their God-given gifts, abilities, and resources to fulfill the
Great Commission, bringing Christ to Durham and the world. Three
qualities that we seek after in the life of Dayspring are: authenticity,
community, integrity. Three gifts we seek to offer to ourselves
and others are: love, acceptance, forgiveness.
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