Bishop, TX, United States
First Baptist Church of Bishop. The Rev. J. B. Bruce of Kingsville and seven organizers met with forty applicants on January 29, 1911, in Moser Hall in downtown Bishop to establish a missionary Baptist church. The congregation called the Rev. B. F. Goodwin as a temporary pastor. He held two services
a month for a salary of $400 per year, supplementing his income with carpentry work. The Missionary Baptist Church of Bishop borrowed $13,000 from the Baptist Home Mission Board in 1912 for its first
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