Between 1861 and 1865, one in five white Alabama males of military age lost their lives to disease or combat. East Alabama Male College shut its doors. First Baptist Church, which met only once a month, became a Confederate military hospital. Whether one believes in miracles, lots of Confederate soldiers wounded in the defense of…
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The years between the beginnings of Auburn First Baptist and the Civil War were like those of most new institutions: short-term leaders; slow development of patterns, traditions, and practices; financial challenges; some eccentric people. For instance, the mother of the second pastor dreamed three nights in succession that she would birth a son, who would…
In March 2004, John H. Jeffers (1921-2008), Pastor of AFBC from 1958 to 1986, presented three informal talks on the history of Auburn First Baptist Church. The Church’s 175th Anniversary Committee is pleased to make these recordings available for download using the links below: Oral History: Part 1 Oral History: Part 2 Oral History: Part…
East Central Alabama was the cow’s tail for Baptists in the state. Until the Second Creek War in the mid 1830s, white settlement spread from Mobile to Huntsville and from the Coosa/Tallapoosa Rivers to the Tombigbee. But the area to the east of this vast domain, from the banks of the Coosa to the Chattahoochee, remained…
Listen to Part 7 of our Thursday evening series on A History of Auburn First Baptist Church: You may also listen to Part 4, “Auburn First Baptist and the Alabama Frontier”.