WARREN’S
CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
1997 Picture
1876--1996
Founded: 1876
Admitted to HCBA: 07/25/1879
Admitted to HCBA: 11 August. 1909
"Resurrected" Re-admitted to
HCBA: 8 Sept., 1950
Excluded from HCBA: 4 September, 1952
Re-admitted to HCBA: 6 September, 1956
Disbanded: 23 June, 1996
Compiled by Elreeta Crain Weathers
WARREN’S CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
was founded in 1876. Four times it was admitted to the Hamilton
County Baptist Association--25 July, 1879, 11 August, 1909, 8
September, 1950, and 6 September, 1956. Warrens Creek Baptist Church
was excluded from Hamilton County Baptist Association on 4
September, 1952.
On 6 Sept., 1956, Rev. C. N. Gilbert,
pastor of First Baptist Church, Hamilton, made a motion that "Warren’s
Creek be recognized as a sister church..." His motion carried, thus
Warren’s Creek was again part of HCBA.
The church disbanded on 23 June, 1996. Warren’s Creek
Baptist Church was located on HWY 36 north of Gentrys
Mill and near the Comanche County line. The address of Warren’s
Creek Baptist Church in July, 1879, was Boynton, Comanche County.
Reports were not sent from this church during the years 1881 through 1908.
The church building still stands on the south side of HWY 36 about seven
miles west of Hamilton.
1909: Total Expenses for the Year was
$1.00.
TRAINING UNION DIRECTOR
1956: Ronald Holley; 39 Enrolled
1957: Vernon Pickett, 38 Enrolled
1959: none
The value of the church
property in 1995 was $10,000.
1909
HCBA Minutes
1910
HCBA Minutes SOURCES
Williamson, Lee Roy, Director of Missions, 1983
Annual of the Tri-Rivers Baptist Area, Baptist General Convention of
Texas, Nellie Rice, Clerk, AHamilton
County Baptist Association, Minutes of the One-Hundred-Eighth Annual
Session,@ Church Membership and
Other Information, p. 74.
Hickerson, Sr., Dr. Julius R., District XVI
Missionary, 1950 Minutes of District Sixteen, Baptist General
Convention of Texas, Allen, Luther W., Clerk, AMinutes
of the Hamilton County Baptist Association Seventy-Fourth Annual Session
Held with the First Baptist Church of Carlton, September 7 and 8, 1950,@
Oklahoma Baptist University Press, Shawnee, OK, p. 151.
Hickerson, Sr., Dr. Julius R., District XVI
Missionary, 1952 Minutes of District Sixteen, Baptist General
Convention of Texas, Rodgers, W. L., Clerk,@Minutes
of the Hamilton County Baptist Association, Seventy-Sixth Annual Session
Held with the First Baptist Church of Hamilton, September 4-5, 1952,@
Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK, p. 139.
1996 Book of Reports, Hamilton Baptist
Association, AAnnual Report
from your Area Missionary, October 1, 1995 through September 30, 1996, >Church/Staff
Information,=@ p. 6.
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