Concord Baptist Church in Anderson will begin a celebration of its centennial on April 22 with an opening message that evening from Frank Page, pastor of Taylors First Baptist Church and president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Frank PagePage will preach at the 6:30 p.m. service, but the celebration of Concord’s 100th birthday will begin that morning at 10:30 with a presentation of the musical, “God with Us,” featuring the church’s choir and orchestra.
The special services then run through April 25 and pick up again on the weekend, April 28-29.
Don CoxIn services also to begin at 6:30, Pete Wilbanks, a professor at North Greenville University, will speak on April 23; Roy Fish, an evangelist and professor of evangelism at Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Tex., on April 24; and Rick Gage, an evangelist from Duluth, Ga., on April 25.
Don Cox, pastor at Concord, will preach at the 6 p.m. service on April 28, with Bob Marcaurelle, the retired pastor of Concord Baptist, bringing the closing message at the 10:30 a.m. service on April 29. He was Concord’s pastor for nearly 31 years.
Representatives from Salem and Hopewell Baptist churches met on Dec. 18, 1907, to consider organizing a new congregation. Concord Baptist Church grew out of that meeting.
Today, Concord has more than 1,900 members and has consistently supported Southern Baptist causes.