Fidelity Baptist Church Records 1892-1975

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Fidelity Baptist Church Records 1892-1975

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Fidelity Baptist Church is a Cleveland, Ohio, church organized in 1891, as Fidelity Free Will Baptist Church. In 1892 it became Fidelity Baptist Church. In answer to changing social conditions in the neighborhood during the 1950s and 1960s the church became involved in several community welfare organizations. The collection consists of minutes, financial records, programs, membership records, constitutions, agreements, Sunday School records, legal records, baptism and death records (1892-1912), miscellaneous files, and records documenting the church's work with community welfare organizations, including records of the Cleveland Area Church Council and the Inner City Protestant Parish.

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Fidelity Baptist Church

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Fidelity Baptist Church began in Cleveland, Ohio as a prayer meeting group of the East Side Mission of the Scranton Road Free Will Baptist Church in 1888. In 1891 a lot on Wade Park Avenue and Van Ness (now East 84th Street) was purchased, and a prayer room was built and dedicated. Reverend T. C. Lawrence of Hillsdale, Michigan, became the first pastor of the Fidelity Free Will Baptist Church in March 1892. In May of the same year, two deacons, a clerk, and a treasurer were elected ...