On this, the 18th day of April 1981, we, the Primitive Baptist Members of the Vestavia Primitive Baptist Church, met and entered into the following covenant:

For as much as Almighty God, by His grace, has been pleased as we hope, to call us out of darkness into his marvelous Light, and we all having been regularly baptized upon profession of our faith in Christ Jesus and having given ourselves to the Lord and to each other in gospel church way, to be governed and guided by a proper discipline agreeable as we believe to the word of God; we do, therefore, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by His assistance, covenant and agree to keep up the discipline of the church of which we are members in the most brotherly love and affection toward each other while we endeavor punctually and punctiliously, to observe the following rules:

In brotherly love to pray for each other; to watch over one another for good; and if need be, in the most tender and affectionate manner, to reprove each other; that is if we discover anything amiss in a brother or sister to take the directions given by our Lord in the 18th Chapter of Matthew, and not to be whispering and backbiting. We also agree, if not providentially hindered, to attend our church meeting, and especially not to absent ourselves from the Communion Service without a lawful excuse; and not to neglect the defraying of the expenses of the church, and not to depart from the fellowship of the church without a regular dismission.

These things we covenant and agree to observe and keep sacred, in the Name of and by the assistance of God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. AMEN.