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Kingston Presbyterian Church

Kingston  Presbyterian  Church

800  Third  Ave.,  Conway,  SC  29526


Traditional Worship Service - Sunday 10:30 AM
Organized 1858

 

 HYMN:  Alleluia, Christ Is Risen!

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Kingston Presbyterian Church seeks to provide an accepting and non- judgmental fellowship in which every person can grow closer to God.


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We are called to serve one another and to love our neighbors as ourselves ... and thus to emulate Jesus Christ.


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Kingston Presbyterian Church
 

Documentation dating from the 1700s indicates that an organized Presbyterian congregation was in existence in the village of Kingston by 1756.

While it was recorded that John Baxter occasionally preached here prior to 1754, the Rev. William Donaldson, a native of Scotland, is the first known regular minister of the colonial Kingston Church. Donaldson, ordained by a Pennsylvania presbytery in 1755, accepted a call to this church on the Waccamaw on Feb. 7, 1756, a petition having been sent to this intent.  Rev. Donaldson served the Kingston Church until his death in 1759.

The church's small, brick sanctuary faced west, up present-day Third Avenue. It was the first church building of record in the village of Kingston (later renamed Conway) and was built on Kingston Bluff, located on the west bank of Kingston Lake, which is a tributary of the Waccamaw River.

The sanctuary stood in the middle of what was the "Village Commons". Eventually, the grounds on either side of the church building evolved into the "Village Burial Grounds" for the early settlers of the area. The earliest graves were marked with wooden markers that have long since decayed. Many of the older stone markers have also disappeared. The entire churchyard is essentially a graveyard and is considered sacred ground.

The congregation seems to have disbanded by 1795, for Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury recorded in his journal:

"Thursday, 24 December 1795.  We came to Kingston, where I preached in an old Presbyterian meeting house, now repaired for the use of the Methodists. I spent the evening with W. Rogers, formerly of Bristol, where our wants were richly supplied: thus, sometimes we abound and at other times suffer want; and we may balance the one with the other."

The "old Presbyterian meeting house" was eventually destroyed during a “great storm” around 1813.

In 1855, a proposal to re-establish a Presbyterian church in the town of Conwayboro was favorably received, and in 1858, the present sanctuary, built in the "Greek Revival" style, was completed adjacent to the ruins of the colonial Presbyterian meetinghouse. On May 30, 1858, the first religious service was held in the existing sanctuary, and on the same day the present Kingston Presbyterian Church was officially organized.

James Cook map showing church sanctuary in Kingston, SC, published 1773.James Cook map, published 1773, showing church sanctuary in Kingston (Conway), South Carolina


"Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God?"

"Yes, we'll gather at the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river;
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God."


HYMN :  Shall We Gather At The River


 

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