Welcome to Campbellsburg Baptist Church's history. Started as Sulphur Fork Baptist Church in 1801, in Henry Co., KY, we have a rich and enjoyable history. We wish to share this research with you for personal usage.
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Campbellsburg Baptist Church
P. O. Box 128
Campbellsburg, KY 40011
[email protected]
Forget the past; do not dwell on it.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not see it?
I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.
What a strange way to introduce a book of history. If the book you are holding were simply a history, this would be a valid criticism, but this is much more than the story of our past. You are holding a record of the new thing that God has done with the women and men of Sulphur Fork/ Campbellsburg Baptist Church. It is a remarkable story of a people stepping out on faith to follow their God on the way through the desert and up the streams in the wasteland.
From the moment in July of 1801 when the heart of God’s love sprung up with the calling of McGuire, Malin, and Dupuy, along with Ransdale, Sanford, Pyles, Nelson, and Webb to be a part of the body of Christ, to the moment in February of 2001 when God’s love sprung in the heart of Sandy Marshall, God’s working in our lives is always a new thing. Our responsibility is to watch for it. Perhaps seeing how God has worked in our lives and in our community before will help us to see where God is doing a new work in the future. This book can help.
As the first pastor of the next two-hundred years of Campbellsburg Baptist Church, I commit myself to service: to God, as we attempt to follow the way laid in the desert, and to you the people, the ministers, of Campbellsburg. It is my honor to work with you in the field God has placed before us. God is doing a new thing again: in honor of our ancestors and our history, let us dwell on that.
Peace,
Rev. Russell Winn
Campbellsburg, Kentucky
March 2001
Published by the Campbellsburg Baptist Church, Spring 2001
History Committee:
Ann Marie Scott
Susan Wingrove Willhite,
Robert Oldham Barnett
Joe Nuttall Orem
Virginia Jones Melvin