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An Unbroken Chain: The History Of Coats Baptist Church, 1910-2010, Ronnie Faulkner
An Unbroken Chain: The History Of Coats Baptist Church, 1910-2010, Ronnie Faulkner
Ronnie W. Faulkner
This book is a history of Coats (N.C.) Baptist Church written by an academic historian. Founded in 1910 by James Archibald Campbell, the principal of Buies Creek Academy, along with 48 devout citizens, the church grew by 2010 to over one-thousand. From the beginning, the Coats church was intimately connected with the civic, educational, and religious life of the community. Lay leaders in the church were inevitably leaders in the local government and schools. Pastor Campbell, an orthodox believer in “old time religion,” infused the people with what he called “the plain and simple truths of the Bible.” In the …