During the spring of 2017, Pastor A. A. Dicks, Jr. began discerning a call to plant a church in the Upstate Region of SC. After much prayer, patience, prophetic pressure and the consultation of the friends and fathers (Pastor A. A. Dicks, Sr. and Bishop Eric J. Freeman) the Lord clearly spoke to plant The Mount Zion Church. So with radical obedience and courageous faith Pastor Dicks and hundreds of other people held the first service of The Mount Zion Church at Long Branch Baptist Church in Greenville, SC on June 18, 2017!

In August 2017 the church moved its worship venue and time to the Younts Center for the Performing Arts at 315 N. Main St. Fountain Inn, SC at 10am.