First Baptist Church of Nacogdoches

 First Baptist Church of Nacogdoches

Address: 411 North St, Nacogdoches, TX 75961

Phone: (936) 564-7379

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the old wood framed First Baptist Sanctuary that was built in 1900 and torn down in October of 1941 to make way for the current Sanctuary. (Courtesy of First Baptist Church of Nacogdoches)

First Baptist Church was established in Nacogdoches, Texas in 1884. Faithful people throughout these years joined hands and hearts in working together to make our church what it is today. We are a loving body of believers from all ages and walks of life.

NOEL DEAR

Pastor

In his 28 years of ministry, Noel has served as youth minister, associate pastor, and pastor. For 22 of those years he has pastored congregations in Mississippi, Alabama, and Ohio. He and his wife, Donna, are the parents of three girls – Hannah , Emily, and Rae.

He holds a B.S. in Theology from Liberty University and a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Divinity Equivalency from Liberty Theological Seminary. He is in the latter stages of completing his doctoral work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

With a staff who are dedicated to the Lord and who lead in the various ministries the church has to offer. 

Eastside United Pentecostal Church

 Eastside United Pentecostal Church

3801 Center Hwy

Nacogdoches, Texas 75963

Telephone

(936)564-6432

Pastor Ennis Fuller

Wednesday Pastor's Prayer 11:00AM

Wednesday Service 7PM

Sunday Prayer 9:30

Sunday School Service 10AM

Sunday Evangelistic Service 11AM

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Pastor Ennis Fuller

Corner Post Cowboy Church @CornerPostCC · Nondenominational Church

 Corner Post Cowboy Church

Address: 2122 Stallings Dr N, 

Nacogdoches, TX 75964

Phone: (936) 645-0123

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Church of the Living God Richardson Chapel

1206 John Richardson Rd, Nacogdoches, TX 75961

 

Stallings Drive church of Christ

 

Stallings Drive church of Christ

3831 NE Stallings Dr. Nacogdoches, TX 75965

(936) 564-7286

Services

Sunday AM Classes: 9:30

Sunday AM Worship: 10:15

Sunday PM Worship: 6:00

Wednesday PM Classes: 7:00

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Randy Harshbarger

Jay Taylor

The Stallings Drive Church of Christ is composed of Christians whose sole aim is to serve God according to His word. These Christians come in all “shapes and sizes” and in varying age groups. Our ethnic makeup is diverse, as was the church of the 1 st century.

“And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.” Acts 11:26

We believe it is important to give Bible answers to Bible questions. The word “Christian” is used three times in the New Testament (Acts 11:26, Acts 26:28, and 1 Peter 4:16.). We wear only Christ’s name; we seek to give answers for our faith (1 Peter 3:15); we are not ashamed of our faith and commitment to Christ (John 15:18-19). We seek to be disciples, or, learners of Jesus.

We are not identified with any man-made denomination. In fact, we do not want to be part of any human denomination because we cannot read about these religious bodies in the New Testament. Creeds and religious parties can only promote allegiance to men. Our devotion is to Christ. When we speak, we endeavor to speak only as Christ has spoken (1 Peter 4:11).

Because we are Christians, this means that we have chosen to obey Christ’s will. In doing so, we have entered into a spiritual relationship with Him. Christ’s will for salvation is plain and easily understood. Christians are people who have believed and confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. We repented of our past sins, and then were baptized in His name for the remission of sins (Mark 16:15-16; Romans 10:9-10; Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:3-4; Acts 8:34-39).

“The churches of Christ greet you.” Romans 16:16

As early Christians did, we work together in a local church of Christ (Romans 16:16; 1 Corinthians 1:2; 11:16). In this work, we are encouraged by the leadership of godly men, or, elders (sometimes called bishops or pastors Acts 14:23; 20:17, 28; 1 Timothy 3:1-7). The congregation is blessed by special servants of the church, or, deacons (Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:8-13).

Believing that the church belongs to Jesus Christ, we are guided in what we do by His word. On Sunday, the day the Lord was raised from the dead, we assemble to eat the Lord’s Supper in memory of His death (Acts 2:42; 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26). The first day of the week is also the occasion for our hearing and learning God’s word, and encouraging one another in the word of God (Hebrews 10:24-25). We worship and praise God in spiritual songs (Ephesians 5:18-19). We seek to show our love, not only for Christ, but for each other (John 13:34-35).

“By this, all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35

It is important to have Christ in our lives–in our families, at work, and in life’s daily activities (Romans 12). We give emphasis to the training of every disciple, in order to help him or her to greater spiritual maturity (Ephesians 4:11-16). Worshiping together helps accomplish this. We are concerned about preaching the gospel in our own locale. Additionally, we help preachers in different places in our country and in several different foreign countries. The congregation supports its local ministers in traveling to different places throughout the world

While Christians have concern for all people (Galatians 6:10), as a congregation we have a special interest in the needs of our fellow Christians. Benevolent needs are met as they arise. Money to do this is contributed by our own members on the first day of each week (1 Corinthians 16:1-2).

We hope you will accept this invitation to come and worship with us. You are always welcome here at Stallings Drive . Come and be with us. We trust you will find a friendly congregation dedicated to following Christ and His New Testament.

Christ Church, Nacogdoches An Episcopal church

 Christ Church, Nacogdoches

(936) 564-0421

1420 Mound St.

Nacogdoches, TX

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Service Times

Sunday Mornings: 8am & 10:30am

Wednesday Mornings: 11:15am

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Christ Church is the oldest Protestant Church in Nacogdoches, the oldest town in Texas.

Becoming the eighth and ninth churches in the 1839 Diocese of Texas, Christ Church Nacogdoches and Christ Church San Augustine were organized in April 1848 by then-deacon Henry Sansom, who was ordained in January 1849. The first Episcopal service in Nacogdoches was held in the Courthouse on June 14, 1848. The first vestry included Frost Thorne and Hayden Edwards, who both were instrumental in establishing the Republic of Texas in 1836 and then the State of Texas in 1845; they are interred in Nacogdoches’s historic Oak Grove Cemetery.

In 1851, work began on a wood frame church building fronting a lane which runs north from Main Street in downtown Nacogdoches. The work was fully completed in 1854, and since that time, the lane has been called Church Street. In 1902, the Reverend George Crocket, with vestryman architect and builder Dietrich Rulfs, oversaw construction of a new brick church on the southwest corner of the Nacogdoches University campus. This building was dismantled, reassembled, and enlarged in 1939 on parishioners’ land adjacent to the campus of Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College. In 1947, a parish house was added by parishioner and architect Hal B. Tucker (whose daughter is a current, 2020 communicant). Also in 1947, Christ Episcopal School was founded as the first protestant private school in Nacogdoches. In 1983, Christ Church constructed a separate Christ Episcopal School building on the church campus, designed by Tucker protégés, Carl Maynard and John O. Greer. In 1990, the sanctuary was extended with a choir loft to accommodate a pipe organ, and a new narthex entry was added. This addition, in the original Rulfs style, was designed by parishioner and architect John Hill (whose wife is a current, 2020 communicant). In 2013, the parish house was renovated; the work was overseen by two parishioners, the architect Jerry Sutton and the contractor John Kingham.

Rev. George Crocket, a San Augustine native, served Christ Church from 1888 until 1908 and again from 1926 until 1930. He was a respected historian, history professor emeritus at Stephen F. Austin State College, and author of Two Centuries in East Texas, still a definitive history of early Texas. Crocket carved the altar, pulpit, and hymn board the Church still uses. In 2016, a bronze statue of Crocket on the west lawn of Christ Church along Mound Street was dedicated by the parish and the Friends of Historic Nacogdoches.

The Past Rectors of Christ Church

The Reverend Henry Samson (1849-1854)

The Reverend C. H. Albert (1855-1856)

The Reverend John Owen (1857-1864)

The Reverend D.A.B. Treader (1864-1865)

The Reverend Alexander Dobb (1865-1869)

The Reverend R. D. Shindler (1869-1887)

The Reverend Charles H. B. Turner (1887-1888)

The Reverend George Louis Crocket (1888-1908)

The Reverend T. J. Sloan (1909-1912)

The Reverend Jeptha H. Swann (1913-1915)

The Reverend Charles D. Atwell (1916-1926)

The Reverend George Louis Crocket (1926-1930)

The Reverend Hugh St. George Murray (1930-1933)

The Reverend Orin G. Helvey (1933-1942)

The Reverend William Landless Shannon (1943-1945)

The Reverend Scott Field Bailey (1946-1950, later Bishop of West Texas)

The Reverend H. Raymond Kearby (1951-1959)

The Reverend John Desel (1959-1967)

The Reverend Michael C. Macey (1967-1973)

The Reverend William V. Kegler (1973-1976)

The Reverend Jack Godfrey Murray (1977-1982)

The Reverend Douglas J. Tucker (1983-1992)

The Reverend Frank B. Mangum (1993-1996)

The Reverend Reginald Thomas Milburn (1996-1998, interim)

The Reverend Gary Dixon Hill (1997-2010)

The Reverend David J. Greer (2010-2011, interim)

The Reverend Howard G. Castleberry (2011-2019)

The Reverend Frank W. Hughes (2019-2020, interim)

The Reverend Karl E. Griswold-Kuhn (2020-present)

Painting 1895 by Rev. George Crocket is currently held in the East Texas Archives at SFASU

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The First Vestry

The first Vestry included Judge Amos Clark, who gave $500 in gold to build the church, Frost Thorn (the first Texas millionaire), who donated the land, Col. Hayden Edwards (leader of the Fredonia Rebellion against Mexico, 1826), and Judge Richard S. Walker.

Noted Past Members

 Judge William Beck Ochiltree

by L. Tuffly Ellis, 1991

18 Oct. 1811–27 Dec. 1867

William Beck Ochiltree, lawyer and public official, was born in Fayetteville. The only person of this name recorded in the 1810 census for the county was Elizabeth Ochiltree, whose household consisted of four females and one slave, but no male. Young Ochiltree went first to the Florida Territory and then to Alabama, where he studied law. After practicing for a time in Alabama, he moved to the Republic of Texas in 1839, continuing his law practice. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the Fifth Judicial District, a position that also made him an ex officio judge of the Texas Supreme Court. During the administration of President Anson Jones (1844–45), Ochiltree served first as secretary of the Treasury (1844) and then as attorney general (1845).

Ochiltree wrote a series of articles for the San Augustine (Tex.) Red-Lander opposing the annexation of Texas to the United States. During the annexation and constitutional convention of 1845, he served as a delegate from Nacogdoches County and participated in the writing of the Texas state constitution of the same year. After the convention he again served as a judge but resigned to return to private law practice.

While working to bring about a two-party system in Texas, Ochiltree was a leader of the state's Whig party. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress from the Eastern District of Texas in 1851 and finished second in the gubernatorial race in 1853. Two years later, he was elected a member of the sixth Texas legislature. Ochiltree also served as a delegate to the Texas Secession Convention in 1861 from Harrison County, to which he had moved in 1859. He went to Montgomery, Ala., in 1861 as a delegate and member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America but resigned and returned to Texas to organize an infantry regiment for General John G. Walker's Division. Ill health in 1863 forced him to resign his commission, and he returned to Texas. He died in Jefferson, Tex., four years later

James Harper Starr (December 18, 1809 – July 25, 1890) served as a commissioner of the Texas General Land Office and later Secretary of the Treasury of the Republic of Texas and also as director of the postal service of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War as well as the namesake of Starr County in Texas.

After the defeat of the Confederacy, Starr was barred from serving in public office, as were most Confederate officials. His eldest son's home in Marshall, Texas, "Maplecroft", was designated a state historic site in the 1970s and is open to the public.

 HENRY RAGUET  (1796–1877).Henry Raguet, early Nacogdoches merchant and member of the Committee of Vigilance and Safety, son of James Michael and Ann (Wynkoop) Raguet, was born on February 11, 1796, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the war of 1812, was discharged in Philadelphia in 1814, and soon moved with his wife, née Marcia Ann Towers, to Cincinnati, Ohio. There Raguet was in business for some time and was elected a director of the Bank of the United States in 1827. His business failed, however, and after his discharge from bankruptcy, probably in February 1833, he made a trip to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he became acquainted with Sam Houston and John M. Durst, who induced him to make a trip with them to Texas. They reached Nacogdoches sometime in March 1833, and Raguet accompanied Durst to his ranch home on the Angelina River. After deciding to make his home in Texas, he returned to Ohio by way of Vicksburg, Mississippi, where he made the acquaintance of a struggling young merchant, William G. Logan, to whom he described Texas in such glowing colors that Logan also decided to move to Texas. The Raguet and Logan families proceeded together to Nacogdoches, where the firm of Logan and Raguet began its mercantile business. On December 10, 1835, Raguet was appointed treasurer of the Nacogdoches Committee of Vigilance and Safety; later he was chairman. On February 9, 1837, he was appointed postmaster of Nacogdoches. He retired in 1852 and continued to live in Nacogdoches until 1873, then moved to Marshall. He died there on December 8, 1877, and was buried there.

Photograph. Frederick Voigt, 11th Legislature, By the Austin Photograph Co., Prints and Photographs Collection, [identifier number: di_03923, di_03924], The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Frederick Voigt, Nacogdoches civic leader, state senator, and Texas state custodian of public property, son of Frederick William and Wilhelmina Voigt, was born on September 4, 1825, in Germany. Accompanied by his brother William, he immigrated to Texas before 1849. In that year, in partnership with Thomas Rimmele, a baker, he bought land from empresario Haden Edwards on Lanana Bayou south of Nacogdoches, on which was a water-operated grist and saw mill. His sister Mary, brother Henry, and parents, all born in Germany, were also in Nacogdoches. The parents died in Jefferson, Texas. Voigt married Elizabeth Holloway on December 19, 1855; they had three children. After Elizabeth Voigt died in 1866, Voigt married Elizabeth Muirhead Howell Hancock in 1868; they had a daughter. Voigt served three times as mayor, was worshipful master of Milam Lodge No. 2 of the Masonic order, and was editor and publisher of the Nacogdoches Chronicle; he was a member of the vestry of Christ Episcopal Church and captain of Company B of the Eighth Regiment of the Nacogdoches volunteers during the Civil War. Voigt was also Nacogdoches postmaster (1854–66) and owner-operator of a general merchandise store and freight depot. He was a trustee of Nacogdoches University and superintendent of the Nacogdoches Sunday school. In 1866 he was elected by more than an 80 percent majority to the state Senate from the Third District and was introduced to Governor James W. Throckmorton by a letter of James Harper Starr. Four years later Voigt bought the Starr homestead on North Street when the Starrs moved to Marshall, Texas. He was forced out of the Senate when it was ruled that Confederate officers could not hold elective offices. By 1874 he was back in Austin serving as state librarian and in charge of all public property; he reported to the governor the condition of the Capitol and state buildings and made recommendations for their repair and maintenance. In October 1875 he completed a water well on the Capitol grounds. In an advertisement he offered himself as translator of German and his services in presenting clients' problems to the proper state agencies. On August 25, 1880, while returning to Nacogdoches from Marion, where he was electioneering, Voigt and his horse drowned as he attempted to ford the swollen Angelina River. The spot to this day is referred to as Dutchman's Crossing. He is buried in Oak Grove cemetery.

Christian Life Center

Christian Life Center 

Address: 2604 Stallings Dr ,

 Nacogdoches, TX 75964

Hours: 

Closed ⋅ Opens 6PM

Phone: (936) 560-1431

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Christian Life Center is part of the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI).

The United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) is a Oneness Pentecostal organization with churches, ministers, and members across the globe. With roots anchored firmly in the Bible and a vision for ministering to communities around the world, the UPCI embraces its mission to carry the whole gospel to the whole world by the whole church.

The UPCI has been among the fastest-growing church organizations since it was formed in 1945 by the merger of the Pentecostal Church Incorporated and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ. From 521 churches in 1945, the UPCI has grown to almost 42,000 churches (including preaching points), 40,000 credentialed ministers, and a constituency of 4.9 million in 228 nations and territories. The international fellowship consists of national organizations that are united as the Global Council of the UPCI, which is chaired by the general superintendent of the UPCI.

The UPCI emerged out of the Pentecostal movement that began with a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas, in 1901 and with the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California, in 1906. It traces its organizational roots to 1916, when a large group of Pentecostal ministers began to unite around the teaching of the oneness of God and water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. 

The governmental structure of the UPCI is basically congregational in that local churches are self-governing: the congregation elects its pastor and other leaders, owns its property, decides its budget, establishes its membership, and conducts all necessary business.

The general organization embraces a modified presbyterian system in that ministers meet in sectional, district, and general conferences to elect officials and to conduct business of the organization. The highest governing body of the UPCI is the General Conference, and between conferences it is governed by the Board of General Presbyters (General Board). Its chief officers are a general superintendent, a general secretary-treasurer, and two assistant general superintendents.

The UPCI World Headquarters is located in Weldon Spring, Missouri, on the western edge of the St. Louis metropolitan area.  The headquarters building houses offices for its general officials and seven divisions.

Among the endorsed institutions of the UPCI are six Bible colleges, a Christian college, a graduate school, two training institutes, a children's home, a residency for troubled young men, a ministry to those addicted to alcohol and other drugs, an adoption agency with a home for unwed mothers, a chaplaincy for prisoners, a radio ministry, an agency for community educational services, and an international relief agency. It also endorses chaplains to the military.

Christian Life Center 

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Est. 1992

Centro De Vida Cristiana Pentecostal Church

Centro De Vida Cristiana

Pentecostal Church

2924 HUNTER ST Nacogdoches, TX 75964

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Cariker St. Seventh-day Adventist Church

 Cariker St. Seventh-day Adventist Church

Join Us This Saturday 

Sabbath School

10:00 AM

Worship Service

11:00 AM

Fellowship Meal

12:45 PM

Contact

936.564.2197

Location

909 Cariker Street

Nacogdoches, TX 75961

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About Seventh-day Adventists

 

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a mainstream Protestant church with approximately 19 million members worldwide, including more than one million members in North America. The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to enhance quality of life for people everywhere and to let people know that Jesus is coming again soon.

Adventists believe a Trinity of three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—make up one God. They made salvation possible when Jesus, the Son, came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem and lived a sinless life in accordance with the Father's will. When Jesus was crucified for the sins of the people of the world and arose from the dead on the third day, victory was won for everyone.

When He returned to heaven following the resurrection, Jesus left the Holy Spirit to serve as our Comforter and Counselor. He promised to return to earth a second time to complete His plan of salvation and take His people to heaven. Adventists are among the believers who look forward to that day.

Adventists believe that God is concerned with the quality of human life, and that everything—the way we live, eat, speak, think, treat each other, and care for the world around us—is part of His plan. Our families, our children, our jobs, our talents, our money, and our time are all important to Him.