First Baptist Church Woodstock

Juanita Hughes: pen house, dedication Monday at Woodstock Baptist

The 1913 Woodstock Baptist Church sanctuary, approaching its centennial, is growing old most gracefully. Some plastic surgery, a little powder and paint, knee and hip replacement, tummy tucks, and some fashion accessories have turned it into Woodstock’s premier landmark. It has retained its stately church-house appearance. Compare photos of 20, 30, 40 years ago, and you see no outward change. Step inside and you’ll see some differences, but within moments, past memories take over and it’s like Homecoming Day. A little research yields the basic facts, but hidden within each date, each milestone, each statistic, are stories that tell not only the church’s history, but the history of the town itself. The body of believers known today as First Baptist Church Woodstock actually came into being on October 13, 1837, when twelve men and women of like mind constituted Enon Church. Details of early meeting houses are sketchy, but the tiny congregation likely met at first in a log house at the site now occupied by Enon Cemetery. In 1871, minutes of their business meeting describe a new building to be constructed at a final cost of $899.00. The old building was sold for $47.25, and sale of the seats brought a hefty $47.10. In 1879, the year the railroad came to town and a depot was constructed, Enon members decided to move their building nearer to what appeared to be the center of the Woodstock community. (The city was not yet chartered.) It was a banner year for them in another way as well — they organized their first Sunday school. Property on what is now Towne Lake Parkway, just off Main Street, was donated to the church, and the old building, suffering from the actual move down the road, was repaired and re-roofed, and a cupola was added. The congregation changed its name to Woodstock Baptist Church in 1884, and in 1891 a new white frame church house was constructed facing Main Street. It featured two distinctly different steeples with a curved archway entrance, architecturally popular at the time. By then, the settlement was beginning to grow, and six years later, in 1897, the Town of Woodstock charter was granted by the Georgia Legislature. The first mayor was N. A. Fowler, a deacon at the Baptist Church. A week later, a building committee was chosen. Those committee members earned spots on the cornerstone of the new building. They were O.D. Perkinson, C.J. Hunter, H.C. McAfee, G.S. Barnes, J.B. Medford, Emmett Dial, and W.P. Sewell.

First Baptist Church of Woodstock to Hold Graduations despite ...

It was Cherokee, though, that was contacted last year by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. The Washington-based group expressed concern about the use of First Baptist for secular, government-sponsored graduations. The church isfilled with symbols of faith, including a large cross above the stage. The organization has sued two other schools in different states over the same issue, losing one suit and winning the other. Cherokee could be next, it hinted.

The history of the First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Ont, for the first seventy years, from April 22, 1822 to April 22, 1892

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. 13 mission of members or a puritanical strictness in discipline existed. The years 1824 and 1825 witnessed large accessions, ...

The History of the First Baptist Church, Woodstock, Ont.

History of the Baptists in Vermont

The first record in the church book is as follows: "Whereas, a branch of the First Baptist church in Woodstock, living in Windsor, State of Vermont, ...

A jubilee review of the First Baptist Church, Brantford 1833 to 1884

This dear young Brother died at Woodstock, July 27th, 1890, ... and baptized into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church, Brant- ford, by the Rev. ...

A History of Florida Baptist's Sunday School

Miller's church service prior to the convention includes: minister of ... annual Sunday school leadership seminar, First Baptist Church, Woodstock. ...