In the News ... Caprock Chronicles: "Lubbock’s Downtown Bible Class: Interdenominational Christians together"

Editor’s Note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, a Librarian at Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. This article is a brief history of the oldest continuously meeting Sunday School classes in Lubbock and the challenges it has faced and successfully met.

Photo Courtesy of Downtown Bible Class

• Founder envisioned the class as autonomous, self-financing, and located near the downtown business area

By Jack Becker, Contributor
• Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

LUBBOCK, TEXAS - The Downtown Bible Class started life as the Men’s Downtown Bible Class in 1928. Sponsored by the First Baptist Church of Lubbock in an effort to reach out to businessmen, many traveling salesmen, who found themselves in Lubbock over the weekend. Lubbock in 1928 was a fast-growing town of 20,000, business was booming, and many salesmen found it profitable to stop in Lubbock’s downtown business district ...

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