Jimmy Patterson,
Special to the Midland Reporter-Telegram
MIDLAND, TEXAS - With last week's completion and unveiling of the additions at First Baptist Church, it brings to mind the importance of faith that has been a part of Midland since its earliest days.
The Methodists, Baptists and Presbyterians were the earliest denominations to establish churches here, in 1885, although a Catholic Mass was celebrated once in a tent in 1881. The Baptists actually were the third Protestant denomination to organize, and visiting Sweetwater pastor J.A. Moore is given credit as being the first person to preach a Baptist sermon in Midland, according to "Land of the High Sky" by John Howard Griffin.
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