LIBC Historical Timeline

1797 - First Baptist church service held at Deacon Seeley Crofut's log house in what would become LeRoy.

1801 - First Sunday School held by the Baptist church at a log schoolhouse in what would become LeRoy.

1842 - LeRoy Baptist Church organized and joined the Bradford Baptist Association.

1855 - Church sanctuary built and dedicated.

1898 - Major church renovation completed to include the current stained glass windows, a realignment of the front17724LER doors, removal of the balcony, installation of wainscoting.

1914 - New pews, pulpit, and pulpit chairs purchased by Charles L. Lamb and donated to the church in honor of his boyhood home, LeRoy.

1950 - Annex built and dedicated.

1978 - AWANA chartered at LeRoy Baptist Church.

1979 - Dissolved relationship with the Bradford Baptist Association and became LeRoy Independent Baptist Church.

1980 - Six Sunday School rooms and an AWANA game room / fellowship room added.

1994 - Pastors study designed and constructed where the original balcony had been removed in 1898.

1996 - Former LeRoy Church of Christ building acquired for extra teaching space.

1998 - Former Myra Whipple home acquired for use as a parsonage.

1999 - Sound system redesigned and a project started to upgrade the system. Finished in 2005.

2006 - Additional classrooms finished in the building acquired from the LeRoy Church of Christ in 1996.

 

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