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Colonial Baptist Church like many of the churches in the Southern Baptist Convention began as a mission. It was sponsored by the Pimlico Baptist church of Baltimore city in 1943. Rev. Raymond Brooks, superintendent of city missions for Baltimore, and a former Pastor of Pimlico Baptist Church, began the work in a small rented cinder-block building at 304 Reisterstown Road, in the Pikesville. s Colonial Village community. There had been no Baptist activity in the Pikesville area for a number of years since the Mettam Memorial Baptist Church, which was erected and dedicated in 1835, had long been abandoned. This old stone church building and burial grounds, located on Old Court Road, a few blocks east of Reisterstown Road, had completely deteriorated and could not be considered for our use. On July 15, 1945 a council of churches met for the purpose of constituting Colonial Baptist "mission" into a Baptist "church." With 25 charter members, it then began as a church. Rev. James Rowles, Dr. R. I. Trotter and Rev. Daniel Kessler, successively, served the new young church until July 1947 when Rev. Richard L. Ledbetter was called as Pastor part-time. The gradual growth of our church enabled us to call Rev. Ledbetter to full time service in November 1955. Articles of incorporation, dated March 26,1952 were filed with the state of Maryland in order to facilitate the purchase of property. In July 1952 the church voted to buy the corner property at 401 Reisterstown Road directly opposite the rented church building. This property consisted of land, a large frame dwelling and barn. The frame building immediately became our parsonage and the barn, after considerable renovation and improvement, provided needed additional rooms for our growing Sunday School. After carefully surveying the area of our membership and looking to future growth potential, we purchased a new 4 acre location at 4619 Old Court Road in 1957 at a cost of $27,000. On July 2, 1958 we started a branch Sunday School in the framed dwelling on this site. The very substantial profit from the sale of the 401 Reisterstown Road property enabled us to promptly begin a building program, and on May 7, 1959, a contract was signed to build a combination church and educational building for $90,000. On Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1959, the new building was dedicated. In 1962, when the adjacent property adjoining 4619 Old Court Road became available, the church immediately voted to buy it. This was known as the John Moore property. It provided additional land plus another frame dwelling and an access roadway into our parking lot located to the rear of the church. As the Sunday School continued to grow the need for additional classroom space became acute. On September 11, 1963 the Pastor appointed a survey committee to determine our needs and to make recommendations. After much prayer and study the committee presented plans to construct an addition to our building. A year later, in September 1964, the church voted to authorize construction of the proposed new building. In a little less than a year, the new building was ready for use and was dedicated on August 15, 1965. This addition more than doubled the educational space for Sunday School classrooms, and contributed immensely to the growth of the church. In 1969 the church voted to approve the purchase of 3 and 3/4 acres of land on the south side of Liberty Road near Ward's Chapel Road for the purpose of establishing a future "mission." On April 15, 1973 we rented a suitable frame building at 10743 Liberty Road to serve as the "Liberty Lake Baptist Chapel." The church grew significantly from 1966-1981. The Sunday School was a vital part of this period as it provided Christian education to many young children during the baby boom era. The Liberty Lake Mission came into existence as the need to start Sunday School and worship services in the Holbrook area became apparent. Several families worked in the mission effort. Also, a Korean congregation in need of a place to worship was offered the use of Colonial's building for Sunday afternoon Sunday School and worship service. That relationship with the Korean congregation continued until Colonial moved to 9411 Liberty Road Reverend Richard Ledbetter retired on September 12, 1982 after 35 years as Pastor. Various ministers were called upon to lead the worship services during the search for a Pastor. Rev. Malcolm A. Jones was called to be Pastor in October 1983. Rev. Malcolm Jones served the church until October 1985 when he left to serve the home mission board in the New England area. Rev. Conrad Burch was the interim Pastor for Colonial from October 1985 until August 1986. Rev. Russell Priddy, Jr. was called to be Pastor and began his ministry in August 1986. On January 3, 1988 an 8:30 a.m. Sunday service begun following a needs assessment by the deacons. In 1989 the church voted to sell the Liberty Lake property for $80,000.00. The sale of this property would facilitate the church in its effort to help the Pastor, Rev. Russ Priddy to purchase a home in the area. The remaining funds from the sale were to be held as an endowment for the purpose of building or renovating properties owned by the church. In the spring of 1993, a third morning worship service at 9:30 AM was begun to alleviate overcrowding. On Dec. 19,1993 Colonial voted to accept a contract to purchase Beth Israel Synagogue, 9411 Liberty Road, for a sum of $2,700,000. Colonial came to settlement on the 10.49 acre Beth Israel property in December 1994. On January 22, 1995, Colonial's first service was held at 9411 Liberty Road. On March 16, 1995, Russ Priddy resigned as Pastor of Colonial. In July Colonial celebrated its 50th anniversary, dedicated the building at 9411 Liberty Road, and called Rev. David Lee to serve as Interim Pastor. In light of the additional space provided at the Liberty Road facility, on February 5, 1996 the 9:30 AM worship service was eliminated. In September, the church called our current Pastor, Robert J. Anderson, Jr. and he began his work here on October 22, 1996. Despite many efforts to sell the property at 4619 Old Court Road, the church could not obtain a buyer until June 24, 1998. Colonial reached a settlement with the Towson Seventh Day Adventist Church in the amount of $919,000. Colonial Baptist Church has sponsored many new mission works since the mid 1950's. In 1956, the church voted to sponsor a mission at Gamber, Maryland and several of our members moved to that area and started the work. The mission was constituted as Emanuel Baptist Church in 1960. The Liberty Lake Mission operated from 1972 to 1983. Then an Owings Mills Mission was sponsored from 1983 to 1990 and again in 1992. The deaf ministry, under the direction of the Baltimore Baptist Association, met in the facilities of Colonial Baptist Church from 1988 to 1998. Covenant Baptist chapel of Towson, Maryland began in 1989 in cooperation with the home mission board and was constituted in 1995. The Arundel Baptist Church of Glen Burnie, Maryland was also constituted in 1995, two years after the mission was begun. Two missions, Forest Park and new Vision Bible Baptist, were begun in 1994 to serve the northwest section of Baltimore city. In 1996 the Foundations of the Christian Faith Mission was begun to serve Northeast Baltimore City and the B' nai Avraham Messianic Mission was begun with services on Saturday at Colonial Baptist Church. |
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