On March 15, 2009 St. Paul CME Church will celebrate the 152nd anniversary of its founding in 1857 under a brush arbor on the nearby Dickson Plantation.  The message will be brought by Rev. Omer M. Reid a dynamic young minister with deep Hancock County Roots.

Rev. Reid is the first of six siblings born to Liller V. and the late Milton C. Reid in Taliaferro County, Georgia.  He was raised on a farm in northern Hancock County and educated in the public school system of Hancock County.  Rev. Reid conducted undergraduate work in Political Science at Savannah State University.  He received a Master of Theology and Doctorate of Philosophy in Clinical Pastoral Psychology from the American Theological Seminary.  He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served honorably for three years in the U.S. Navy.

He married the former Barbara Stewart of Monroe County, Georgia in October 1979 and was blessed by God with three daughters and one son.

Milledgeville, GA has been his primary residence since 1985, where he has been very active in the community and served primarily on a volunteer basis on almost every board in the city.

Rev. Reid is currently the Senior Pastor of the historic Flagg Chapel Baptist Church in Milledgeville.  In addition he is coordinator of Clinical Chaplains at the Central State Hospital, Chairman of the Central State Hospital Foundation Board, President of the Milledgeville NAACP, Chairman of the Community Advisory Board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Community Advisory Board member of the "High Achievers" project and Advisory Board Member of the Union Recorder Newspaper.