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Recognizes and congratulates Cornerstone Baptist Church of Spartanburg on its 120th anniversary in 2025, having been founded in 1905

The church was originally named Thompson Chapel Church and organized as a Congregational church, relocating multiple times before moving to South Converse Street and Collins Avenue in 1976

Reverend B.T. Sears served as pastor beginning in 1949 for almost fifty years, during which membership tripled within his first year

Reverend Charles Jerome Junious Jackson III became pastor in 2000 and has developed twenty new ministries, including a television outreach program airing on two networks weekly

Directs that a copy of the resolution be presented to Cornerstone Baptist Church