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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!
Sung by Kingston congregation

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About Us

Our Overall Mission

 We seek to be a sanctuary of God's unconditional love. We believe, and try to live out, the good news of Jesus Christ by witnessing His Word through compassionate service. 

Our Core Values

  • God's grace and forgiveness in Jesus, to be lived out through all believers.
  • The tangible presence of the Holy Spirit in our worship and work.
  • Providing a judgement-free zone for spiritual growth for all  people.
  • Developing godly leadership for service in the church and community.

You Can Expect

  • A genuine and warm greeting.
  • A traditional worship service format.
  • A service of reverence and joy.
  • Christ-centered worship, and thoughtful, biblical preaching.
  • A modest but beautiful campus, situated on the west bank of Kingston Lake, one block from Main Street in downtown Conway.

Worship Service

The church bell rings out at 10:15 AM to call everyone to the sanctuary. The worship service begins at 10:30 AM with the instrumental prelude.

  • Before the service, speak to God.
  • During the service, let God speak to you.
  • After the service, speak to one another.

A nursery is provided for infants and toddlers during Sunday School and for the Worship Service.

Our Missions

Domestic Missions:


Billy’s Boys, Inc.


Churches Assisting People (CAP)

https://www.capconway.org/


Fostering Hope

https://www.fosteringhopeinc.com/


Friendship Medical Clinic

http://www.friendshipmedicalclinic.org/


New Directions of Horry County

https://www.helpnewdirections.org/


Outreach Farm

http://www.theoutreachfarm.org/


Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

https://pda.pcusa.org/


Shepherd’s Table

https://shepherdstable.com/


Thornwell Home (Presbyterian Orphanage in Clinton, S.C.)

https://thornwell.org/


Traveler’s Chapel


Waccamaw Youth Center

http://waccamawyouthcenter.org/home10.aspx


 

Foreign Missions:


Beautiful Feet Ministries - Tanzania, East Africa

https://www.bethefeet.org/


India Gospel League - India and South Asia

https://iglworld.org/


Jinishian Memorial Program (Relief, Development, Faith)

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/world-mission/jinishian/


Presbyterian World Mission

https://www.presbyterianmission.org/ministries/world-mission/


 

 
Sun. School

Sunday School

To assist our Sunday School classes, we provide an online service called "RightNow Media", which is a video library of Christian Sunday School lessons. Click the link below for information on how to connect to that service.


"RightNow Media" Video Library


 

Our History

History of
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
Sung by Kingston congregation


 

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Feb 21 | Reverend Jim Burton

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    Drive/Boat-In Worship Service @ 9:30am in lower parking lot

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