Providence Primitive Baptist Church is celebrating its 175th anniversary on July 12, 2003, at Roberta, Georgia. Services begin on that Saturday at 11:00a.m. Covered dish lunch will follow the morning service. Friends of Providence are invited to attend.
Providence was constituted as a church body by Elder John Martin Blackstone in 1828, the same year that she was accepted in the Flint River Association. The following year she was a charter member of the Echeconnee Association. Providence has been a faithful church member of the Echeconnee Association every year since 1829. In 1853 a new church building was erected and was deeded 1.2 acres land on Highway 80 West by Christiana Hortman. The building burned in 1903. The Church Minutes are said to have burned when the Clerk’s house caught fire about the same time. On the 24th day of October 1903, Lots 19 and 20 in Block "Q" in the town of Roberta (on Crusselle Street, Highway 80) were obtained for $32.50 and the church was rebuilt on these two lots, where it has now stood for the last one hundred years. In 1909 the adjoining Lots 17 and 18 were purchased. The dining room was added to the church building in 1974.
Her pastors were Elders James Steely, Patrick M. Calhoun, Crumwell Cleveland, John Dickey, Wilde Cleveland, Tom Bentley, Isaiah Grant, J. A. Monsees, J. Harvey Dailey, A. J. Banks, Cecil Darity, Freeman Keel, and Robert Torrance. Elder Torrance has been serving Providence for the past 40 years. Current deacons are Brother Lawrence Hortman (P.O. Box 102, Roberta, GA 31078) and Brother Bill Liles (Musella, GA 31066). Services are held on 2nd Sunday and the Saturday before, beginning at 11:00 a.m.
Anyone who has copies of Providence minutes or correspondence prior to 1911 may share them by contacting the Deacons.
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