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Immanuel Baptist Church
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Temple, Texas
1913 – 2007
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Previous Names
- West Side Mission, Freeman Heights Chapel (1903 to 1913) – A Mission of First Baptist
Church Temple
- Emmanuel Baptist Church (1913 to 1914)
- Freeman Heights Baptist Church (1914 to 1935)
- Immanuel Baptist Church (1935 to Present)
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History
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On June 29, 1881, the city of Temple became a town
on the edge of the Texas Blackland Prairie. By 1900 the population had already reached
over 7,000 people. The First Baptist Church of Temple, which at that time was located
at the corner of Main Street and Barton in downtown Temple, began to see a need
for a ministry in what was then called West Temple. From 1903 to 1913 the First
Baptist Church had a part in supporting this new mission until it became a church
in 1913.
Sometime in early 1913, a resolution was drafted and
sent to the First Baptist Church of Temple that the name of this church be “Emmanuel
Baptist Church” of Temple, Texas.
June 14, 1914, the church voted to change the name
of the church from Emmanuel Baptist Church to Freeman Heights Baptist Church.
One other very significant event occurred on May 26,
1935, when the church voted by a “hearty and unanimous vote” to change the name
of Freeman Heights Baptist Church to Immanuel Baptist Church.
Immanuel Baptist Church started a mission church in
1977 located on South 31st named Canyon Creek Baptist Church which became independent
in 1980.
On Sunday, August 24th 2003, Immanuel Baptist Church
celebrated the 90th year of service to the Lord here in this community and around
the world.
Click here for the complete history
from 1913 to 2003.
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The information on the history of Immanuel Baptist Church was taken from excerpts
directly from the book, God With
Us: The Heritage of Immanuel Baptist Church, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Press. Belton, Texas 2003.
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