Society Hill Baptist Church near Opelika marked 175 years of ministry Aug. 10 with a service that began at 10:30 a.m.
Bill King, director of missions for Tuskegee Lee Baptist Association, provided the church’s special music.
Calvin Milford, representative from the Alabama Baptist Historical Commission, presented a certificate. Louise Huskey, who serves as church clerk, treasurer and Sunday School teacher and whose husband was the longest tenured pastor of Society Hill Baptist, accepted the certificate on behalf of the church.
Also during the service a slideshow of photos of the church through the years was shown, and Pastor Mark Carlock delivered a message about the past and the future.
Former pastors Bill Baker and John David Shirley as well as the wife of the late Bob Atkins Jr., who also was a former pastor, all attended the service. Following lunch, guests stayed to enjoy King’s comedy act as Billy Bob Bohannon.
Carlock noted his vision for the future of Society Hill Baptist is that “we keep doing the Lord’s work but use different methods to reach people of our community and the state of Alabama.”
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