First Baptist Church of Cameron

First Baptist Church of Cameron

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S. Crockett Ave. and W. Main St.

Milam

693206

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Cameron

3414830

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Itinerant ministers J. W. D. Creath and David Fisher organized this church in

1853. The Rev. T. M. Anderson became the congregation's first resident pastor

in 1867. Membership was extended to the community's Mexican-Americans in

1914, and in 1919 the church joined the Milam Baptist Association. Church

facilities have been expanded over the years to meet changing needs. First

Baptist helped organize the Mexican Baptist Church of Cameron in 1925 and

Battetown Baptist Church in 1945. The congregation is active in foreign

missionary work and continues to serve the community.