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of $250,000.00 with a seating capacity of 756.
This buiding was dedicated in FebuatAy, 1967
and the finat payment on the indebtedness was made
ZUt 1976.
In 1976 ptan wetAe 4orunuated Aot the construction
oA a multi-puApose Fami.y LiAe CenteA. Begun in
1978, The astauctutWe L complteted in June, 1979,
ca a cost of $573,000.00. In addition to a
recreation aAea (gym and game atea), it houseJ
education space, a nuaueAy and chitdeil'es wig,
a fuaC commeAciat kctehen, a parAtot oA fonmac
receptions and meetings wiAth adjoining couAtyaAd
avid an ofZice asute.
The ptLeent edacational budding wa tremode ed
in 1980. The church cuAtentL y has a membership
of more than 1400. The chuAch budget doA 1982
4z $324,000.00, and the value oa the church
propetqy ti in excess of $2,000,000.00.
The Fir t Baptist Church has had the God-given
challenge of extending its ministty throughout
MiIteAa WetLs. Out chuLch has oanoded and
etab&tihed two mirnions that aAe now churches -
CctaXvany Baptist and Lawn TeQAace Baptist Churches.
OuA church ateo provided a house of wUoship f oi
the Mexican-Americanz oA MineAali Wetts. The Mission
&i located at the corneA of S.W. 4th Avenue and
S.W. 16th Street. It is looking AoAicLd to
being constituted into a church in the neca AutuAe.
Tweniety-six pastoAr have seAved thZi chuAch duAing
it6 100 years. They are J. F. Btackman, W. B.
L(ng, J. C. PoweA, L. K. Robcinon, J. V. Ctough,
G. W. StaughteA, Hindman, SturgeQ , CoUeins,
AAthwt C. BuAAoughs, S. W. Smith, R. E. MoAtis,
J. D. HatnEg, J. W. Gilon, W. E. Bulttain,
Layton Maddox, ChaqRes T. AtexandeA, Buiitton Ro,
HarA.an J. Matthew^, W. W. Chcviceteo,, Wt. M. Ttnet,
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Moore, Bobby E. [A Centennial Booklet of First Baptist Church], text, October 10, 1982; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38091/m1/13/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.