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The church's organ, the work of Ernest M. Skinner, was installed in 1922. [4] By 1947, the congregation was using the name "First" Baptist Church to distinguish itself from other Baptist congregations in the city. It is one of the few Southern churches to have remained open through the entirety of the American Civil War.
The institute fell under the auspices of the Colored Educational Association of Savannah, itself an offspring of the American Missionary Society of New York. [1] [3] The original Beach Institute building, erected in 1867 as its first school, still stands at 502 East Harris Street (now the Beach Institute African American Cultural Center). [1]
The church organized the first Sunday School for African Americans (endorsed by the Independent Presbyterian Church) on July 26, 1826. By 1830 under Marshall, the congregation of First African Baptist Church had grown to 2,417 members. [4] In 1832, the congregation had a serious split over doctrinal issues that took years to resolve.
Last fall, when the Rev. Dr. Kyle Reese accepted the position as interim senior pastor at First Baptist Church, Savannah, he figured it would a temporary job.
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Sunday school at a Baptist church in Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky in the United States, 1946. In New England a Sunday school system was first begun by Samuel Slater in his textile mills in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in the 1790s. [43] In the mid-1860s philanthropist Lewis Miller was the inventor of the "Akron Plan" for Sunday schools.