A Guide to the First Baptist Church Collection

A Guide to the First Baptist Church Collection

While its history can be traced back to the Big Lick Baptist Church founded in 1875, it was in 1929 that the congregation of First Baptist Church moved to its newly constructed church on Third Street between Franklin and Luck Avenues. The church occupied this building into the twenty-first century. During the mid-twentieth century, the period of time this collection represents, its pastors were William Cooke Boone (1927-1930), Walter Pope Binns (1931-1943), Wade Hampton Bryant (1945-1961), and Charles Grantland Fuller (1961-1999). Membership in the church ranged from about 2,000 in 1929 to almost 2,500 in 1971.
The collection primarily consists of church service programs from 1929-1948 and directories and yearbooks from the 1960s and 1970s. The collection includes programs from Sunday Services during the years 1929-1948 and 1961-1970, though coverage of many years is scant, and no year includes the full complement of programs. Programs often include a church calendar for the upcoming week. Full church directories are available for the years 1965, 1967, 1971, and 1974, and a leadership directory is included for 1966. Several yearbooks for the Woman’s Missionary Union and the Rebekah Bible Class from the 1960s and early 1970s are also part of the collection.

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