BBC HISTORY

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Bethlehem Baptist Church began in the year 1885 with nineteen (19) members who met in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Fillman of Sumneytown Pike, near Spring House, Pennsylvania.  These members were Brothers James Fillman, Philip Woods, Benjamin Knox, John Gordon, Franklin Smith, Joseph Cooper, Alex Thomas, Robert Wingfield, Samuel Dean, Henry Askins, Cornelius Hopson, James Fillman, Jr., and Sidney Campbell as well as Sisters Mary Fillman, Jane Gordon, Mattie Cooper, Anita Jones, Lucinda Jones, and Sister Rosie Knox as treasurer.​
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After three (3) years, they decided to move to a more suitable location.  In 1888 they leased and later bought a building on Old Penllyn Pike in Penllyn, Pennsylvania, between a blacksmith shop and a gristmill.  The church was set apart the same year by the Reverend James Brooks of the Enon Baptist Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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