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Early History
First Baptist Church, Concord, North Carolina, was organized October 26, 1886 (some say October 29, 1886). Reverend W. R. Gwaltney, DD served as Moderator and Reverend A. G. McManaway preached the sermon. The congregation used the Courthouse to meet in for awhile. Reverend George P. Bostic was the first pastor. A Sunday School was organized in the home of Major A. J. Dodamead on the corner of what is now Cabarrus Avenue, West and Spring Street, N. W. The next pastor was Reverend J. D. Newton who resigned to become a Foreign Missionary to China. During Mr. Newton's tenure a building seating 250 people was erected on the corner of Grove Street and Spring Street. In January 1889, the first worship service was held in the new building with fifty-five members of "Concord Baptist Church" in attendance. J. O. Alderman was called as pastor in 1892 and for the next three years the church membership doubled. In 1898 the Concord Baptist Church became "The First Baptist Church." Reverend Lacy B. Hoge became pastor in 1898 and under his leadership a neighboring band of Baptists were organized as the "Second Baptist Church," now known as the McGill Avenue Baptist Church. During World War I (1914-1918) Reverend George V. Tilley served as pastor. Source: Harry J. Moore, The First Fifty Years: A History of the Cabarrus Baptist Association of North Carolina (North Carolina: 1986), 63.
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