HISTORY OF SNOWDOUN BAPTIST CHURCH
Snowdoun Baptist Church was organized December 6, 1951 with 31 charter members. It was the first church organized in the Montgomery County Baptist Association in 1952 and the first Baptist church to be organized in the Snowdoun community.
Dr. Blount Davidson, Superintendent of Missions in the Montgomery Baptist Association, served as moderator, and Rev. John Bob Riddle, pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist church, served as clerk. Mrs. H. N. Sadler was elected church clerk, Mr. J. W. Neighbors, treasurer, and Mr. W. L. Sellars, J. W. Neighbors, and H. N. Sadler were elected as pulpit committee. Mr. J. C. Sadler and Mr. I. E. Kendrick, who were ordained deacons, were the first two deacons of the new church. The pulpit committee rented the old Capitol Liquid Gas building for one year. Services were held on Sunday morning and evening. Rev Curtis Summerall was called as pastor on December 12, 1951, and was ordained as a minister of the gospel on December 30, 1951, in the church. The first Sunday School was organized December 9, 1951, with 23 members enrolled. Mr. J. C. Sadler was superintendent. The first Training Union was organized January 23, 1952, with 18 members enrolled and Mr. W. L. Sellars as director.
On January 4, 1953, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Boswell presented the church with a plot of land on Highway 331 for a church site. Plans were immediately made for building the church. Ground-breaking ceremonies were held February 15, 1953. By November 22 of that year, the first service was held in the basement of the new church with 56 members present. Construction for the auditorium began September 1955. The congregation had its first worship service in the new auditorium on October 23rd, 1955. Following completion of the church, a parsonage was built.
L. L. Pelham, a deacon in the church at that time, arranged for the pulpit furniture and church pews to be built and donated them to the church.
The church remained in the same location until October 1999 when the Alabama State Department of Transportation purchased the church building and property. The land was cleared to make Highway 331 a four-lane. The Snowdoun Baptist Church family under the leadership of Pastor Steve Campbell desired to remain a church in the Snowdoun community. During the search for land to construct a new building, space was rented from the Catholic Social Services for one year. The church elected three trustees (Chris Beasley, Leslie Howell, George Pugh) and a building committee (Terry and Alice Ivey, Robert Manning, Tammy Rolling and Connie Wilson) to oversee the building program. On November 4, 1999, Snowdoun Baptist Church purchased five acres of land and a brick house from Jack L. Vickrey at 6564 Norman Bridge Road. On May 15, 2000, a contract was signed with Parker, Prescott Builders, Inc. to construct a new church building. The men of the church worked together to refinish the original church pews and Mrs. Jean Bragg recovered them. The first service was held on November 19, 2000, with 72 present. On December 3, 2000, the church had a special service to dedicate the use of the building to God’s work and for His glory.
Just two short years later, the active membership had doubled and the church needed more space for classrooms and fellowship facilities. In May 2003, many members, with the help of the Mobile Baptist Builders, a special group of volunteer builders, worked together for three days to get a 2000 square foot fellowship hall added to the south wing of the church. This addition was completed in August 2003.
(Revised 1-14-2010)