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First Baptist Church began on September 27th, 1961, in Framingham when two local families met with an area missionary, the pastor, and a representative from Rice Memorial Baptist Church of Northboro. The foundation was laid with a weekly home Bible study, which began immediately. The first Sunday worship was in April, 1962, with 15 in Sunday School, 21 in morning worship, 13 in Training Union, and 15 in Sunday night worship. That year, Lottie Moon and Annie Armstrong offerings were taken and the church contributed to the Cooperative Program. A Women’s Missionary Union was organized in April, 1963. On October 11, 1963, the church was constituted as Calvary Baptist of Framingham with 37 charter members.
In 1968 the church purchased 4.2 acres of land on Landham Road in Sudbury. The church occupied its initial building on this land in 1971 and changed its name to First Baptist Church. In 1979 a two-story educational wing and fellowship hall were added, and in 1987 the present 350-seat sanctuary and preschool care center was completed.
Working through the Greater Boston Baptist Association and the Baptist Convention of New England, First Baptist has sponsored many ethnic and community mission congregations throughout the Boston and Metrowest areas. This support has been not only financial, but has included the sharing of the building with Greek, Spanish, Brazilian, and Anglo mission congregations. In 1986 almost one third of the membership of First Baptist was commissioned for the start of Grace Baptist Church as a mission in Marlborough. This congregation has since moved to Hudson and numbers approximately 800 members.
FBCS believes history is His-story - the story of Jesus - and that He is continuing it in us... |
