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NOTTINGHAM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

 NOTTINGHAM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 1953 - 2003     

Compiled by Helen Moore 
Hard Cover 8.5 x 11  122 pp.  For more info, contact us.

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Where there is no vision the people perish. . . Proverbs 29: 18

We hope you enjoy this 50th anniversary history book of Nottingham Missionary Baptist Church. It has come about with much prayer, research and digging into old files and photographic boxes.
   It begins with the tent meetings in 1949 and takes us up to 2003 with a vision of enlarging our Church again.
   Our sincere desire is that as you read this book, you will have the same vision that our forefathers had.

     Arial View 1997.       Ariel view 1961.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Edith Roland and Marie Coomes for all their help in compiling this book. Marie's daughter Edna Coomes Waters had made an extensive file with dates and facts which was invaluable to me. It was wonderful hearing about the past of Nottingham. Marie and Edith, thank you both for giving so liberally of your time and entrusting me with your keepsakes from the past. It was a joyous endeavor. Helen Moore

BOOK COMMITTEE: Earl & Nancy Cole, Marie Coomes, Lesia Duvall, Hazel Fisher, Bonnie Hindman, Helen Moore, Edith Roland.

DEDICATION: To the memory of Mr. and Mrs. Harl Commes & Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wilson, and to al the faithful members of Nottingham Missionary Baptist Church past, present, and future.

The year was 1953. Seventeen folks interested in organizing a local church in Nottingham, Pennsylvania met in the home of the late Harl Coomes. Thus was the beginning of what was to become the Nottingham Missionary Baptist Church. . .

Let us go back a bit in time and reminisce about the days of yesteryear. Mr. Harl Coomes and Mr. Lester Wilson were the catalyst for the church's beginning. . .The land was donated by Mr. Coomes. . .a building committee was appointed. . . First a basement was built with most of the labor being donated by the members, and services were conducted for two years. . . The church appointed four deacons. . . Earl Roland, Hubert Coomes, Lester Wilson, and Harl Coomes. . . The congregation purchased 200 slat-bottom chairs from the Phoenix Chair Company.

In July of 1955, a beautiful brick building was completed. . . That year we bought pews and a nine-piece pulpit and communion set for a total price of $3,607.53. In 1955 that was a great deal of money, but everyone worked hard and gave sacrificially so that the church could be built.
    Tent Meetings.  Click photo for larger image.  
          

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