Centennial Celebration

ID: 1703 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
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Thirty years later, the congregation celebrated its centennial in that same structure with a pageant portraying the “birth of religion in Waco” and the unveiling and dedication of a historical marker.

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By Terri Jo Ryan
First United Methodist Church marks its founding year as 1850, when the Rev. Joseph Perkins Sneed, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, preached to the inhabitants of Waco Village at the foot of…