First Free Will Baptist Church

First Free Will Baptist Church is in one of the oldest buildings in town. It began as the Lowell Cumberland Presbyterian Church. A warranty deed filed September 19, 1892, records the conveyance of the land by A. Douglas, trustee of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company, to W.C. Richards and J.W. Williams, elder and trustee of the Lowell Presbyterian Church. Reverend Peter Carnahan dedicated the church in 1893. The 1892-93 section of Springdale News stated, “Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lowell purchased New Bell.” It became the home of Lowell Community Church on September 13, 1948. The Evangelical Free Church settled there on June 11, 1973. On April 19, 1989, First Free Will Baptist Church moved in, with the old bell still in place and still ringing in 2009, more than 115 years old.

Lowell, Arkansas · United States