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Enoree Baptist Church

881 Tigerville Road
864-834-7403

Enoree Baptist Church was organized August 30, 1851, with seventeen charter members who dedicated their lives to the following statement of their faith:

'We the undersigned brethren and sisters have embodied ourselves together as professed believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and being desirous to live together in a Christian Church relation, agree: One, to take the Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments as the only enduring standard of faith, and our only bond of union

Second, the Lord Jesus Christ as the only head of the church.

Lastly, we count and surely agree to pray for and to assist each other in all matters of distress, so far as God in His Providence may enable us, as a Church established upon the Gospel.”

Through the years, Enoree has held worship services in three separate sanctuaries. The first sanctuary was a log church which was used from 1851 to 1859. In 1859 the church agreed to sell the old meeting house to help pay for the new building that would hold services for 58 years. Bids for a new building were solicited in 1915 and the current building was erected in 1917. In 1950, Sunday School Classrooms and a baptistery were added to the back of the sanctuary.  The sanctuary was renovated and expanded in 1954. Expansion of the property would continue in 1969 when the dedication of the new educational wing was held. That same year the existing gym was dedicated. The newest addition to Enoree Baptist Church is the education/fellowship building that was built in 1999.

In 1971-1972, Enoree Baptist Church supported a kindergarten as one of its missions. The children were taught the basics but were also taught values to live by. Many of the children that came to the Enoree Baptist Church kindergarten are now in places of responsibility in our church and other areas in our community.

Enoree Baptist Church has been blessed to ordain a number of men to the Gospel Ministry, along with several couples who have gone to the foreign mission field. With a strong concern for missions, Enoree Baptist Church has supported groups from the church on mission trips to Venezuela, Ecuador, Columbia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Zambia, Romania and several locations in the United States.

Today this church stands as a symbol to the 'Faith of our Fathers' and we are assembled to honor that faith.  We praise God for the many men and women who have served this church and community so faithfully and nobly though the last 160 years.


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