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unusual facts about First Baptist Church


The Music Hall, Fayetteville

From 1999-2002 The Music Hall Entertainment provided live music and events for teenagers through the 24-7 student ministries of First Baptist Church Springdale, Arkansas.


Leonard Black

Black moved to Virginia where in 1873 he was made pastor of the First Baptist Church, also known as Harrison Street Church, in Petersburg.

With encouragement and support, he became a Baptist minister, preaching in Boston, Providence and Nantucket before becoming minister of First Baptist Church in Petersburg.

Lillian Cox

Cox is a member of First Baptist Church.

Mac Brunson

In 1999 Brunson was appointed senior pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.

T. T. Martin

When the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota founded by the dynamic William Bell Riley of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, blossomed into the Anti-Evolution League of America in 1923, it was with Kentucky preacher Dr. J. W. Porter as president and Martin as field secretary and editor of the organization's official organ, The Conflict.


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Angels Among Us

The song features backing vocals from the Sanctuary Choir and Young Musicians Choir of the First Baptist Church of Fort Payne, Alabama.

Bob Merritt

Merritt's father was Calvin Merritt, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Neshannock Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania.

From 1983 to 1988 he was pastor of the Falun First Baptist Church in Falun, Wisconsin.

Boskydell, Illinois

Boskydell sandstone was valued for its warm, reddish-brown color, and was used in the construction of several prominent buildings in Illinois, including: the foundation of the Southern Illinois University in nearby Carbondale; a Methodist church in Murphysboro; the First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale; and the former First Baptist Church of Carbondale.

Bryan R. Holloway

He is a member of First Baptist Church in King, North Carolina and resides in King with his wife, Misti, and their dog, Governor.

Carl Bearden

He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Harvester, Missouri, the St. Peters Chamber of Commerce, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Dayton Waller

The Wallers donated the bridal suite of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport in appreciation to God for their four children, Dayton H. Waller, III (wife Kellye), Elizabeth "Sissy" Waller Johnson (husband Walter Fair Johnson), Elaine Waller Moreau (husband Doug), and Kathryn Waller Long (husband Donnie).

DeForest Soaries

Additionally, he is the senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey, a position he has held since November 1990.

First Baptist Church of Moffat

First Baptist Church of Moffat (also known as Moffat Community Church) is a historic church at 401 Lincoln Avenue in Moffat, Colorado.

Fred L. Lowery

Fred Lynn Lowery (born March 16, 1943) is the retired former senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Bossier City in northwestern Louisiana, whose Sunday sermons under the title The First Word were broadcast between 1983 and 2013 on KTBS-TV, the ABC affiliate in Shreveport, and on several cable television outlets.

He won the position by a four-vote margin, 723 to 719, over Dr. Sid Young (died 1999), the pastor from 1988 to 1991 of the First Baptist Church of Haynesville in northern Claiborne Parish.

George Beauchamp Vick

J. Frank Norris, pastor of Temple Baptist from 1934 to 1950, appointed Vick in 1935 to help him manage the church, as Norris himself traveled between it and First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

Gregory Alan Thornbury

Thornbury was ordained in 1996 at the First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) of Clarksville, Indiana.

Harley Hunt

Hunt served as associate pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Angeles, Washington (1966–1968) and as senior pastor of Gregory Heights Baptist (now Burien Community) Church in Seattle, Washington (1968–1974), Clearfield Community Church in Clearfield, Utah (1974–1983), Emerald Baptist Church in Eugene, Oregon (1983–1985), and Grace Baptist Church in Tacoma, Washington (1994–2004).

Heaven's Rain

Following missionary work on the Amazon River in Brazil, Dr. Richard Douglass moved his family to the Oklahoma City area, becoming a well-respected Baptist minister to the large congregation of First Baptist Church of Putnam City.

Joseph Johnston Muir

He served in succession: the Baptist church in Oxford, New Jersey; the East Marion Baptist Church on Long Island; First Baptist Church of Ticonderoga, New York; McDougal Street Baptist Church, New York City; the Park Baptist Church in Port Richmond, New York on Staten Island; North Street Baptist Church, Philadelphia; the E Street or Third Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and the Temple Baptist Church also in Washington.

KWMS-LP

The station's flagship programs are services from First Baptist Church and sporting events from West Monroe High School.

Lambert Road Baptist Church

Among the British Settlers of 1820 was a small group of Baptists who established the first Baptist Church in South Africa, in Salem (approximately 25 kilometres from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape).

Leon Sullivan

In 1945 Sullivan and Grace moved to South Orange, New Jersey, where Sullivan became pastor at First Baptist Church.

Malaysia Baptist Convention

A key person during those early days was Mrs. Oh Hock Teck who helped establish the first Baptist church in Alor Setar, Kedah in 1938.

Mitchelville

By 1866, there were three churches in Mitchelville—the First Baptist Church, a Free Will Baptist church, and a Methodist church.

Morris Chapman

He served as pastor of First Baptist Church in Rogers, Texas (1967-1969), First Baptist Church of Woodway in Waco, Texas (1969-1974), and First Baptist Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1974-1979), where he also served as president of the New Mexico Baptist Convention (1976-1978).

New Berlin Historic District

Among the notable buildings are the Central Hotel (ca. 1855), National Bank and Trust Building (ca. 1900), First Baptist Church (1840), St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (1848, designed by Richard Upjohn), Municipal Building, and New Berlin Central High School.

Odell McBrayer

In 2002, he became affiliated with the First Baptist Church in Idabel, Oklahoma, upon his retirement from his law practice when he and his wife, the former Mary McCurtamn, moved there to be near their son and daughter-in-law, Tim and Debbie McBrayer.

Pullen Memorial Baptist Church

Two years later, Pullen also became a sister-church with the First Baptist Church of Matanzas, Cuba.

The Christian Harmony

Old Folks Day in Canton has featured singing from the Christian Harmony since the nineteenth century, at the Morning Star Methodist Church, and before that at the Locust Field Church (now the First Baptist Church).

W. Winfred Moore

In 1985, Moore, as the moderate candidate, lost the SBC presidential contest in a challenge to the fundamental-conservative incumbent, Charles F. Stanley, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia.

William Henry Houghton

After a series of revivalistic meetings at a Baptist church in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1918, he accepted their offer of the pastorate and stayed until he took a new pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the fall of 1920.