Spring Hill Baptist Church at Cobbs Creek will celebrate its 150th anniversary on Sunday with an 11 a.m. service, followed by a catered lunch.
Dana Brown, chair of the homecoming committee that has organized the celebration, said the service will have a number of memorable features. The choir will sing an anthem, “A Legacy of Faith,” for which Julie Davis, wife of pastor Ross Davis, has composed the music and lyrics.
The Rev. Chuck McDaniel, pastor of Spring Hill for 24 years until his retirement in 2020 and now its pastor emeritus, will speak. Also during the service, members of the mission Team Ruth from Spring Hill to Tanzania (a 21-day trip in 2016), will speak and present music.
According to a church history which will be distributed along with a brass ornament to all attending, Spring Hill, which calls itself “The small church with a big heart,” was constituted Aug. 19, 1874. The first elders were James G. Council, W. W. Wood, and Richard A. Fox. They appointed Washington B. Call...