Charles Jesse Bynum Reid Foundation

03/29/2023

Please take ONE minute to help the CJBReid Foundation win the Gaston Community Foundation Run Facebook Contest. Click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFndGC. Scroll down to the Facebook Contest, scroll through the contestants to the CJB Reid Foundation's post (entry #8), and LIKE the post. We are winning but just barely. The prize is $250. Help!!!

03/06/2023

Please take 1 minute to support a great effort! Click on the image below. Then Like our post in the Gaston Community Foundation Run Facebook contest and help us win $250 and preserve the CJB Reid Ancestral Home.
https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFndGC/photos/a.5713734882058560/5713696155395766/

The Charles Jesse Bynum Reid Foundation, partnering with Preservation North Carolina, is currently focusing on the preservation and restoration of the Charles Jesse Bynum Reid ancestral home on Sacco Street in Belmont. Because the ancestral home is one of the three best surviving examples of Craftsman architecture in Gaston County, the only building remaining from 1920 in the African American neighborhood, and the homeplace of Reid High School founder Professor Charles Jesse Bynum Reid, it is critical that this home be saved.

02/20/2023

The Charles Jesse Bynum Reid Foundation, partnering with Preservation North Carolina, is currently focusing on the preservation and restoration of the Charles Jesse Bynum Reid ancestral home on Sacco Street in Belmont. Because the ancestral home is one of the three best surviving examples of Craftsman architecture in Gaston County, the only building remaining from 1920 in the African American neighborhood, and the homeplace of Reid High School founder Professor Charles Jesse Bynum Reid, it is critical that this home be saved. The Foundation's goal is to convert the home to a public educational and cultural space that documents the rich history of the Reid family, community, and high school.

01/17/2022

Please join us tonight to remember and celebrate.

Join us on Monday at 7PM for the Martin Luther King Jr Unity Service at www.cityofbelmont.org/MLKUnity.

11/13/2021

Please join us this afternoon, 2pm, Reid Park, to honor and celebrate the life, witness, and accomplishments of The Reverend Charles Wesley Reid.

Please join the Reid Community for a celebration of the life of Rev. Charles W. Reid and the dedication of a park bench in his memory at 2 PM at Reid Park.

Below is an article from Gaston Gazette:

Charles Wesley Reid’s motto: ‘Believe!’

https://www.gastongazette.com/story/news/2020/11/11/charles-wesley-reidrsquos-motto-lsquobelieversquo/114859368/

To view his obituary click the following link: https://www.articobits.com/obituaries/gregory-funeral-service-gastonia-nc/charles-wesley-reid-obituary

01/18/2021

Friends and Family, Belmont Residents, and Beyond:
Please join us for this 35 minute thirtieth celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., tonight at 7pm. The link to the service is here on the City of Belmont website.
The offering will benefit the CJB reid Foundation.

Monday, January 18th, at 7:00pm the City of Belmont will be livestreaming the annual Martin Luther King Jr Unity Service on our YouTube page. You can join in on the celebration by visiting www.cityofbelmont.org/MLKUnity. The event details are below and can be viewed on the attached flyer as well. Th...

11/21/2020

If you ever doubt how much influence an individual can have or how much good an individual can do, Charles's homegoing service will erase those doubts. What a perfect tribute to an amazing man and his faith.

Click on link for REVEREND CHARLES WESLEY REID

11/19/2020

What a legacy he has left. The CJB Reid Foundation is committed to continuing Charles's legacy.

View Charles Reid's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

11/12/2020

It is with broken hearts that we share this news. What an impact Charles made. What a loss we have suffered.

Service details to follow.

If there is one word that permeated the life and actions of the late Rev. Charles Wesley Reid it was "Believe!"Reid, who died on Nov. 9 at his