Opened With Prayer-Early Records Bennington & Mt. Pleasant Churches, 210 Pages

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“The Indian Presbytery at their meeting at Goodland, Sept. 15, 1848, resolved that Rev. C. Kingsbury and Rev. I. C. Strong be a committee to organize a church at Bennington, agreeable to a request from a number of professors of religion residing in that neighborhood.”

Thanks to a donation to the Bryan County Genealogy Library in Calera, the session records of this historic old church, said to be the oldest in Indian Territory, can now be read and enjoyed.  Though not complete (several years are missing), the records provide details of the church’s early organization, management, and growth, as well as insight into the challenges faced by the leaders in an ever-changing society.