Reid Chapel AME Church, Columbia, SC 29203

About Us 

Reverend Arthur L. Holmes was the second pastor from 1956-1957.  He introduced the beginning of a financial management system to eradicate the church's liability. Reverend Reuben S. Turner was assigned as the third pastor from 1957-1964. 

The first Gospel Choir and Sunbeam Choir were organized under his administration.In the year of 1949,  Bishop Frank Madison Reid, Sr., the presiding Bishop of the Seventh Episcopal District, saw the need to organize an African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Greenview community and appointed the  Reverend L. M. Seward (retired Presiding Elder and currently a member of Reid Chapel) as the first pastor of Reid Chapel in 1954.  The church organized V.V. Reid Nursery and Kindergarten under his leadership.

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