HISTORY OF ANTIOCH

WRITTEN BY EMOGENE F GLASS

THE UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH OF ANTIOCH, LOCATED EAST OF MACEDONIA, ILLINOIS IN HAMILTON COUNTY WAS ORGANIZED IN JUNE OF 1842 WITH FIFTEEN CHARTER MEMBERS. ELDER HOSEA VISE HELPED ORGANIZE THE CHURCH AND WAS THE FIRST PASTOR. HE SERVED IN THAT CAPACITY AT LEAST FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES.

ANTIOCH CHURCH JOINED THE FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION OF UNITED BAPTISTS IN SEPTEMBER OF 1842. ON FEBRUARY 8, 1939 ANTIOCH LEFT THE FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION AND WAS RECEIVED INTO THE FELLOWSHIP OF FAIRFIELD ASSOCIATION. THEY LATER RETURNED TO FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION IN 1943. HOWEVER IN 1973 ANTIOCH REJOINED FAIRFIELD ASSOCIATION AND HAS

REMAINED THERE EVER SINCE.

A SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS ORGANIZED IN 1845 AND FOR MANY YEARS THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT WAS LETTIE VISE, THE WIFE OF ELDER HOSEA VISE.

IT IS NOT KNOWN WHEN ANTIOCH BUILT THEIR FIRST CHURCH. IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT IT WAS CONSTRUCTED OUT OF LOGS AND WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE PRESENT CHURCH BUILDING.

ANTIOCH WAS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST FLOURISHING CHURCHES IN FRANKLIN ASSOCIATION WITH A MEMBERSHIP OF 204 IN 1876. THE YEAR WITH THE LARGEST MEMBERSHIP WAS IN 1904 WHEN THERE WERE 213 MEMBERS ON THE CHURCH ROLL.

THE PRESENT CHURCH BUILDING WAS BUILT IN 1901 AT A COST OF $1,089.06 AND BY NOVEMBER OF 1903 THIS BUILDING WAS DEBT FREE. THIS NEW HOUSE OF WORSHIP WAS DEDICATED ON THE SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY OF 1902. THERE WAS AN OVERFLOWING CROWD OF PEOPLE WHO CAME FROM MILES AROUND TO SEE THIS COUNTRY CHURCH DEDICATED TO GOD’S GLORY.

IN JULY OF 1940 THE FIRST VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL WAS HELD, AND IT LASTED FOR TWO WEEKS. ABOUT FORTY PUPILS WERE ENROLLED IN VBS THAT YEAR.

IN 1950 THE GAS POWERED LIGHTS WERE REPLACED WITH MODERN ELECTRIC LIGHTS. THROUGH THE YEARS OTHER IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE SUCH AS ADDING CENTRAL HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING AND OBTAINING RUNNING

WATER FROM REND LAKE. IN 1971 CLASS ROOMS AND A BASEMENT UNDER THE CLASS ROOMS WERE BUILT ONTO THE BACK OF THE EXISTING CHURCH BUILDING AT A COST OF $7,152.76.

ANTIOCH CHURCH CELEBRATED ITS 150^th ANNIVERSARY IN SEPTEMBER OF 1992.

FORMER PASTORS AND MEMBERS CAME BACK TO JOIN IN THIS JOYOUS OCCASION.

THE MINISTERS WHO PREACHED THE LONGEST WERE ELDER HOSEA VISE WHO PREACHED APPROXIMATELY THREE DECADES, AND ELDER CARROLL PHILLIPS, WHO PREACHED ALMOST SEVENTEEN YEARS.

ON JULY 6, 1993 RENOVATION OF THE PRESENT BUILDING WAS STARTED. THIS

CONSISTED OF NEW SIDING, GUTTERING, ROOFING, AND ON THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH A FOYER WAS ADDED THAT LEADS INTO THE SANCTUARY AND TO THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BASEMENT. A NEW WHITE FIBERGLASS STEEPLE WAS PLACED ON TOP OF THE CHURCH AND LETTERING ON FRONT OF THE BUILDING

IDENTIFIES IT AS “ANTIOCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH”.

REV SCOTT WEBB IS OUR PRESENT PASTOR. HE HAS BEEN WITH US SINCE MAY OF 2001 AND WAS ORDAINED APRIL 14, 2002. DURING THIS TIME MANY PEOPLE HAVE MADE A PROFESSION OF FAITH IN GOD, AND OVER THIRTY OF THOSE HAVE JOINED OUR CHURCH BY BEING BAPTIZED.

REGULAR SERVICES BEGIN WITH SUNDAY SCHOOL AT 9:30AM AND SUNDAY WORSHIP AT 10:30 AM AND 6:00 PM. WEDNESDAY EVENING SERVICES BRGIN AT 6:30 PM. YOU ARE INVITED TO COME WORSHIP WITH US.

INFORMATION FROM THE FRANKLIN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION ANNUALS 1842 - 1895

ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH, HAMILTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS

1842 - T.J. HANKS, A LICENSED MINSTER BUT NOT ORDAINED, WAS SHOWN AS A MESSENGER TO THE ASSOCIATION, 16 MEMBERS

1845 - H, VISE SHOWN AS MESSENGER FROM THE CHURCH AND AS AN

ORDAINED MINISTER (ELDER H. VISE PREACHED AT THE 1846 MEETING)

22 MEMBERS.

1846 - HOSEA VISE, MESSENGER. 32 MEMBERS

1847 - HOSEA VISE MESSENGER. 29 MEMBERS

1848 - 1853 HOSEA VISE, LISTED AS PASTOR 128 MEMBERS IN 1853

1854 - 1855 W. P. SNEED, PASTOR. 108 MEMBERS IN 1855

1856 - JAMES SNEED, PASTOR. 72 MEMBERS.

1857 - J. M. SNEED, PASTOR 85 MEMBERS.

1858 - 1859 W.P. SNEED, PASTOR 86 MEMBERS IN 1859

1860 - 1861 J. M. SNEED, PASTOR 61 MEMBERS

1862 - MISSING

1863 - H. WALLER, PASTOR. 67 MEMBERS

1864 - JAMES SNEED, PASTOR . 91 MEMBERS

1865 - H. WALLER, PASTOR. 91 MEMBERS

1866 - S.M. PAGE, PASTOR. 83 MEMBERS

1867 - 1868 HOSEA VISE, PASTOR 139 MEMBER IN 1868

1869 - W.P. SNEED, PASTOR. 145 MEMBERS

1870 - HOSEA VISE, PASTOR. 134 MEMBERS

1871 - JOHN WASHBURN, PASTOR 130 MEMBERS

1872 - 1876 HOSEA VISE, PASTOR 135 MEMBERS IN 1872, 204 IN

1876,175 IN1878, 202 IN 1882, 180 IN 1886.

1887 - M.J. JONES PASTOR 177 MEMBERS

1888 - 1891 MISSING

1892 - 1895 R.W.LEE, PASTOR (1893 MISSING) 146 MEMBERS IN 1886

ANTIOCH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

LIST OF PASTORS WHO PREACHED FROM 1892 TO PRESENT

R.W. LEE 1892 TO AUG. 1904

K.W. INGRAM SEPT. 1904 TO AUG. 1909

R.W. LEE SEPT. 1909 T0 AUG. 1911

JOHN MAULDING SEPT. 1911 TO AUG. 1915

OLA ALLEN SEPT. 1915 TO AUG. 1918

S.T. RICHARDSON SEPT. 1918 TO AUG. 1919

J.B. HALL SEPT. 1919 TO OCT. 1921

B.E. PAGE NOV. 1921 TO AUG. 1922

OLA ALLEN SEPT. 1922 TO AUG 1923

B.E. PAGE SEPT. 1923 TO AUG. 1926

H.A. MYERS SEPT. 1926 TO AUG. 1929

P. H .HARRIS SEPT. 1929 TO AUG. 1931

J. T. COMBS APR. 1932 TO AUG. 1932

J .B. MAULDING OCT. 1932 TO AUG 1936

HARVEY KIMMEL NOV. 1936 TO AUG. 1938

H. A. MYERS SEPT 1938 TO OCT. 1938

P. D. LITTLE NOV. 1938 TO AUG. 1940

G. E. WALDEN SEPT. 1940 TO AUG. 1942

B. E. PAGE NOV. 1942 TO AUG. 1944

ALVA DAILY SEPT. 1944 TO AUG. 1945

AUSTIN FISHER SEPT. 1945 TO AUG. 1948

JAMES DAVIS NOV. 1948 TO JUL. 1949

ASA WILLIAMS OCT. 1949 TO JUL. 1951

ARTHUR BOYER AUG. 1951 TO AUG. 1952

CLAUDE FRANCIS SEPT. 1952 TO DEC. 1952

LESTER RICHARDSON JAN. 1953 TO AUG. 1953

HOWARD WALTERS SEPT. 1953 TO DEC. 1955

CARROL PHILLIPS JAN. 1956 TO SEPT. 1957

ARTHUR BOYER SEPT. 1957 TO MAR. 1958

WILLIAM SANDERS JUNE. 1958 TO AUG. 1960

CARROL PHILLIPS AUG. 1960 TO SEPT. 1967

LUTHER UPTON NOV. 1967 TO SEPT. 1969

EARL HARRIS OCT. 1969 TO AUG. 1970

KENNETH HOLLAND SEPT. 1970 TO NOV. 1971

HAROLD CLARK FEB. 1972 TO JUL. 1974

CARROL PHILLIPS JUL. 1974 TO AUG. 1982

JESSE CAMPBELL DEC. 1982 TO JUL. 1983

ROBERT WALKER AUG. 1983 TO SEPT. 1985

LESLIE HALL NOV. 1985 TO FEB. 1987

ROBERT WALKER MAR. 1987 TO JUL. 1989

ROY CULPEPPER AUG. 1989 TO MAR. 1990

WILLIAM “BILL” HAMPTON OCT. 1990 TO JUN. 1992

BRYAN AUSTIN AUG. 1992 TO MAY. 1995

JOHN ROOSEVELT LEE JR JUL. 1995 TO SEPT. 1997

GARY HALL JUN. 1998 TO SEPT. 2000

SCOTT WEBB MAY 2001 TO PRESENT

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