We Were ALL New At One Time
Having experienced the friendliness of the people, Bro Mullins decided to name the church after them. Thus, Friendship Baptist Church was born in 1947. The building had dirt floors and the benches only had three slats for the backing. The church had no built-in air conditioning or heat, but it had one outhouse. An oil drum was used for heat in the winter and paper fans were distributed for use in the summer months.
In later years, the church added wood shavings to the floor and a potbelly stove. As the church grew and people gave more money, butane heat was added and a concrete floor was poured inside the standing building by mixing concrete in wheelbarrows and smoothing it with brooms.
In 1994, after much prayer and planning, the old church building was torn down and the present sanctuary followed by the construction of a children’s wing and new Family Life Center.