First Baptist Church - Altoona, Pennsylvania
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N 40° 30.792 W 078° 24.470
17T E 719613 N 4487948
Founded in 1842, This church was built in 1914, the First Baptist Church sits on the corner of Twelfth Avenue and Seventeenth Street.
Waymark Code: WM14C7T
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2021
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"Our Vision
John 6:48 - "I am the BREAD of Life."
Our chief aim is to be:
Biblically - all that we do is to be founded on the Word of God.
Reaching - purposefully and intentionally seeking to reach those around us with the Gospel.
Edifying - building up fellow believers in Christ.
Adoring - worshipping and praising God for who He is and what He has done.
Disciple Making - effectively seeking to foster genuine care for the growth of the believer"
First Baptist Church of Altoona
1209 17th Street Altoona, Pennsylvania 16601
814.943.8162 | fbcaltoona@aol.com
Pastor Tyler Pepper
" The year 1842 marked the beginning of the Baptist Witness in Altoona. The
First Church was located in Pleasant Valley and was known as the Regular
Baptist Church of Pleasant Valley. A group of twenty-one members forming the
church came from the Logan's Valley and Hollidaysburg Churches. They met in a
small log school house in the Valley, at Collinsville. Subsequently the church
moved to the Union School House, built in 1838 and located at Union Avenue and
Sixteenth Street. It was used also by the Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist
and United Brethren congregations in the early years of their histories. In
1853, one year before Altoona became a borough, the church moved into a small
one-story brick building on Virginia Avenue (now Eleventh Avenue) near Clara
Street (now Fifteenth Street). Its first imposing church structure was
erected on that corner in 1871. It was remodeled after a fire in 1908, and
was totally destroyed by fire in 1912. The present church building at 1201-07
Seventeenth Street, one of the most attractive church buildings in central
Pennsylvania, was dedicated in 1916. The church has had twenty-two pastors in
its one hundred and two years of existence, and its present membership is
1,459. Upon its former site, at Eleventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street, the
Chamber of Commerce Building now stands."
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