Updated May09, 2004
History (through 1994)
2/21/79 Dr.
Karl & Barbara Scheffrahn started a Bible study in their home on Molly
Lane,
5/1/79
As attendance grew, they moved to Dale & Ann Boyles’ Arbor Oaks Camp
for Sunday services.
8/21/79 The original name considered was “Lake Country Baptist
Church.”
9/7/79 Dr. Robert Lightner, Professor at
Dallas Theological Seminary, accepted the pastorate and suggested the name “Lake
Country Bible Church.” The name was
adopted; the Constitution & Bylaws were written in the next few months.
12/9/79 Needing more space, a room was
leased at the
7/80 Dr. Lightner resigned.
9/14/80 Tom Houston, Professor at Dallas
Bible College, became part-time pastor.
His wife, Betty, came with him each Sunday.
7/15/81 The home and property of E. Q.
Hearn, 1402 N. Pacific, was purchased. A
partition was removed downstairs, Mr. Hearn’s old office was turned into a
nursery and the adjacent shed was remodeled.
8/81 Pastor Houston borrowed a load
of folding chairs from the Bible college and 70 people attended Sunday school
& church in what is now the library.
Services were followed by “dinner on the ground.”
End
of 1981 Mrs. Gladys Lankford donated
$30,000, and later an additional $11,560, to build the present sanctuary as a
memorial to her son, Giles. With steel, concrete work and painting contracted
out, the rest of the building was completed by men and women in the
church: Ken & Peggy Thomson, Lyle
Baker, Roy & Janie True, Reveau Stewart, Nolan Denison, Charles Ripley,
Ferris Paggett, and others.
3/7/82 Chairs, a piano & an organ
were donated and the first service was held in the new sanctuary.
8/83 For 2 years,
9/4/83 Pastor Houston resigned.
4/84 John Sweigart became full-time
pastor. He came with his wife, Young;
children, Joshua & Daniel; and his mother, Gertrude.
8/86 Pastor Sweigart resigned.
9/86
– 8/88 Tom Houston returned to preach
on Sundays while Craig Lacy taught mid-week services, an adult Sunday school
class and filled the pulpit when needed.
11/20/88 Craig Lacy consented to be pastor,
teacher and shepherd.
1994 The “Creeping, Crawling,
Construction Crew” expanded the new sanctuary and added more classrooms.
Webpage prepared by Paul Coppinger