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NOTTINGHAM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
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As a young boy, the Sunday school picnic at Howard Farmer Field was like a big holiday for me. There weren't many young boys my age. I think Eddie Brown and I got to always play softball with the grownups. There weren't a lot of men that played softball the first year or two. Almost all of the men were playing horseshoes. That was a big think back then. I remember my dad, Uncle John, Uncle Earl, Wade Brown, Hubert Coomes, and his father. There were other men playing as well. They were having so much fun. I wanted to play horseshoes with them, but I was too little. The women were sitting under the shade trees, talking and laughing at the
men playing horse shoes. The younger girls were running and playing; others were down at the creed
sitting on the rocks. I remember years later as a teenager we were playing softball: Preacher Hash
was pitching and my mother was umpiring behind the pitcher mound. Uncle Earl Roland was the hitter.
Uncle Earl hit the ball towards Preacher Hash. He jumped out of the way and the ball hit my mother
on the leg. She really got on to Preacher Hash for not catching the ball.
Sunday School Picnics. Click photo for larger image.
In 1959, the State Line Association was organized at the Nottingham Missionary Baptist Church with five churches. Land was bought in 1964 at State Road and Jenkins Corner. It was later named the Eastern Pennsylvania Baptist Association. We still have monthly meetings on the fourth Saturday of every month. Today the association has been changed Eastern Pennsylvania Baptist Fellowship. . . A highlight of the year at the campground is boys and girls camp, and of course, our old-fashioned "camp meeting revival," which we have every year the week following the fourth of July. Our church still enjoys close fellowship with our sister churches in the EPFB.
We have been blessed with Godly men as pastors at Nottingham: Reverend Buford Hash
February 1953 - March 1958 |
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