FROM JERUSALEM TO LEBANON
FALL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
YEAR
EVENT
30 John
the Beloved, baptized by John the Baptist, becomes an apostle in the church organized
by Jesus Christ at Jerusalem in Israel.
95 Polycarp is baptized by John
the Beloved from the Jerusalem Church.
150 The Partus Church
in Italy is organized by Polycarp from the Jerusalem Church.
237 The Turan Church
in Italy is organized by Tertullian from the Partus
Church.
348 The Pontifossi Church in France
is organized by Tellestman from the Turan Church.
671 The Darthea Church in Asia Minor is organized by Adromicus from the Pontifossi
Church.
738
The Timto
Church in Asia Minor is organized by Archer Flavin from the Darthea
Church.
812
The Lima Piedmont Church in Italy is
organized by Balcaleo from the Timto
Church.
987 The
Hill Cliff Church in Wales is organized by Aaron Arlington from the Lima
Piedmont Church.
1014
Intense persecution, first initiated by
King Henry II of England, destroys most
records of this period.
1663 The earliest
record of Olchon Church in Wales, a direct descendant
of the Hill Cliff Church.
1668 The
Rhydwilim Church in Wales is organized by William
Jones from the Olchon Church.
1701 The Welsh Tract Church in Pennsylvania is
organized by Thomas Griffiths from the Rhydwilim
Church.
1707
The Philadelphia Association is
constituted in Pennsylvania by the Welsh Tract, Lower Dublin, Cohansey, Piscataway, and Middletown churches.
1803
The Cumberland Association in
Tennessee is constituted by the Philadelphia Association.
1804
The Spring Creek Church is
organized by John Jones from the Cumberland Association.
1806 The
Smith’s Fork Church is organized by Joshua Lester from the Spring Creek Church.
1815
The Union Church is organized by
John Bond from the Smith’s Fork Church
MAY, 1822
FALL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
IS ORGANIZED BY JAMES
BOND FROM THE UNION CHURCH.