Gaines Chapel AME Church

09/07/2026

🏡 IT’S HOMECOMING WEEK AT GAINES CHAPEL! 🏡

There’s no place like home! We’re calling all members, former members, family, friends, and neighbors to come home and celebrate 160 years of faith, family, worship, and faithful ministry.

🎬 Homecoming Community Movie Night
🗓️ Friday, September 11, 2026
🕗 6:30 set up 7:00 PM movie start!!!
Don’t forget to register!!!!

Bring your favorite chair or blanket and enjoy a wonderful evening under the stars!

⛪ Homecoming Worship Service
🗓️ Sunday, September 13, 2026
🕚 11:00 AM

We are excited to welcome our Homecoming speaker, none other than Retired Elder Charles Sembly! Come expecting a powerful word, uplifting worship, and a joyful reunion with the Gaines Chapel family.

📍 Gaines Chapel A.M.E. Church
7134 Montgomery Road
Elkridge, MD 21075

Reconnect with old friends, embrace new faces, honor our faithful legacy, and praise God for how far He has brought us. Call someone you haven’t seen in a while and tell them:

“It’s Homecoming Week—come home with me!”

“I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.” — Psalm 122:1

Celebrating Our Faithful Legacy • Engaging in Fruitful Ministry • Embracing Our Divine Destiny

09/03/2026

160 YEARS OF LEGACY
160 YEARS. Generations of faith. One incredible legacy.
Gaines Chapel has stood through changing times, changing generations, and changing seasons—but the faithfulness of God has never changed.
As we celebrate our 160th Anniversary, we honor those who came before us, celebrate those serving today, and prepare the way for those still to come.
This is more than an anniversary. This is our legacy.

Est. 1866 Gaines Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church Our History On November 12, 1866, James and Elizabeth Tyson of Baltimore County deeded property at Elkridge Landing to the African Methodist Episcopal Church in consideration of the sum of $1.00. Thus, it became Providence AME Church. Years....

08/31/2026

🎉 HOMECOMING IS ALMOST HERE! 🎉
Gaines Chapel A.M.E. Church is celebrating 160 years of faith, ministry, family, and legacy!

We’re calling our church family, former members, friends, neighbors, and community to COME HOME and celebrate with us.

🎬 Community Movie Night — Friday, September 11
🙌🏾 Homecoming Worship Service — Sunday, September 13 at 11 AM
160 years later, God is STILL faithful!

Come Ang join us!!!!

08/30/2026

08/25/2026

Dropping some great knowledge on us as we prepare to go back to school!

08/17/2026

ICYMI
Sunday Pastor preached - Jehovah Rapha - God is our healer
Luke 6: 17-19