Established Prior to 1776 Continued.
No other Denomination was allowed a right to organize a Church without the consent of the King of England and this was granted only to the Episcopalian Churches.
So Reedy Creek in those days was a little log Meeting House located to the North side of the present Church. This was before the Counties were separated and Brunswick, Nottoway, Dinwiddie and Greensville and Southampton were all one territory. There were small Meeting Houses in each of these sections. They were ministered to by itinerant pastors, that is Pastors who had no permanent location.
One of them was named Samuel Harris who traveled as far as Danville, another was Ben Jordan who came from Surry and traveled on foot as far as Blackstone. He would stay as much as a week at each little Meeting House and preach, teach, and pray and move on and leave the laymen to carry on. This continued until 1776 when Virginia was declared free from England by the Declaration of Independence and all Denominations had Religious Freedom. They secured their Charter organized the Church and began plans for the building of a new Church.
After much planning the Church was at last built. It was a plain rectangular frame Building with the pulpit inside the Building and a door on the North side with steps that led up to a Balcony on the East end. This was reserved for the Negro members. All the families brought their carriage drivers, nurse maids and others of their slaves. These were accepted in full membership though they did not have a vote.
It was now about the year 1800 and Mr. Harry Glidewell came up from Sussex County and bought a large tract of land that now includes five farms. He told the Church committee that they could have the land on which their Church stood as long as it was a Baptist Church. Through the years the Church has lived through all kinds of conditions, but they always had a pastor and each year they have always had a revival and a good number were added to the membership, still the membership has never been much more than 100 as they have sent out so many members to other churches. Some of the leading Baptist Churches in Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk and other vicinities count among their leaders those who were once members of Reedy Creek. Dolphin Baptist Church and also Warfield Baptist Church were both organized from members from Reedy Creek. A good many of the members of Lawrenceville Baptist, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church and also James Square Baptist Church were once members of Reedy Creek. So Reedy Creek can well be called the Mother of the Baptist churches in the county.