The Acadia Centre for Baptist Anabaptist Studies at Acadia Divinity College is hosting an Old First Church Conference. Leaders from around the CABC will share their historical analyses of our oldest congregations in answer to this question:
Why have these congregations endured and what factors have contributed to their survival over the long haul?

Plenary Speaker: Dr. Charles Hartman – Senior Pastor Emeritus of the First Baptist Church in Swansea, Massachusetts, oldest Baptist Congregation in Massachusetts and third oldest in North America.

Regional Speakers:

• Barry Morrison – Wolfville Baptist (1763/1778)
• Vernon Vickruck – Middle Sackville Bapist (1763)
• Elizabeth Waugh & Barry Moody – Granville Beach Baptist (1780)
• William Brackney – Newport Baptist (1760/1799)
• Dan Green – Chester Baptist (1788)
• Jennifer Riley – Windsor Plains Baptist (1812)
• Terry Atkinson – Brunswick Street Baptist (1814)
• Peter Lohnes – Cornwallis Baptist (1807)
• Gail Whalen-Dunn & Gary Nelson – Falmouth Baptist (1779)
• Ed Colquhoun – Amherst Baptist (1809)
• Pat Townsend – Baptist Archives
• and others….

Everyone invited to attend!

Details:

• When: June 11-12
• Where: Wolfville Baptist Church, Wolfville, NS
• Register Here: http://acadiau.v1.libguides.com/Old_First_Church_Conference