Schaeffer Memorial Mission:
We humbly enter into covenant with God and one another to minister to the needy, evangelize the lost, edify the saved and keep the faith available to the Saints. Biography of Past and Present Reverends
SCHAEFFER MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH·FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020·
Brief Bio of Our Current Reverend:
Rev. June of 1992.) Pastor Suggs was ordained as s deacon in 1982 and was
licensed to preach the gospel on January 22, 1984 by the First Baptist Church of Vinton, Virginia.He earned his Master of Divinity Degree from Bethlehem Bible College on May 12, 2000 and received his Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Bethlehem Bible College on June 28, 2002. He is married to the former Juanita Porter, also a native of Tarboro, NC and they have two children, Latasha J. Suggs and Lee E. They have one grand–daughter Makayla R. Suggs. Pastor Suggs resides in Roanoke, VA and is retired from the Virginia Employment Commission. Brief History of our Founder/1st Revered of Schaeffer Memorial:
Captain Charles S. Schaeffer founded Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church. Captain Schaeffer commanded a company in the federal Army in the war of 1861-65. At its close he was sent to this place to take charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau. As Divine Providence would direct, Captain Schaeffer was able to secure a tract of land on the summit of the mount where the VFW(Veterans of Foreign Wars) building is now located. Captain Schaeffer called it “Zion Hill”. Here he erected a small but good stone building, known as the “parsonage”. Our church and school building was put near this structure in 1867, chiefly at his expense. On May 9, 1869, Capt. Schaeffer was licensed was by his home church in Philadelphia and was set apart for the work of the gospel ministry, as a Missionary. On December 27th, of the same year, he returned to his home church, the Tenth Baptist, to be ordained. Rev. C. S, Schaeffer was both a preacher and a pastor.
