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First Baptist Church

(316) 772-5500

400 E. 4th

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A meeting was held on April 3, 1949, in the rural home of Gladys and Bill Ring with 85 people present.  The purpose of the meeting was to organize the First Baptist Church of Sedgwick.  They held services every Wednesday evening and Sunday in the Ring home for a short time.  A school house that had been put up for auction, was purchased by the congregation for $725.00.  After attaining an old pulpit and some benches from another Baptist Church, they were ready to hold services on July 31, 1949 with 23 people in attendance.  The dedication of the First Baptist Church of Sedgwick, Kansas was held as 2:30 pm on September 11, 1949.  The lots at 4th and Lincoln were bought in the summer of 1957.  Ground breaking services were conducted on Sunday, November 7, 1960.  A new brick church was built on these lots.  The new church building was dedicated on March 26, 1961.

First Christian Church

(316) 772-0211

6th & Franklin

Pastor:  Kim Beckwith

www.sedgwickchristian.org

*The Christian Church's Lighthouse is open Saturday evenings, 7-9PM for Junior/Senior High students.

First Christian Church was organized in Sedgwick, Kansas, after a four week meeting in Congdon's Opera House held by J. H. Fuller on February 23, 1896, with 34 charter members.  The first Church building was donated by the Darlington Church members with the stipulation that the Sedgwick members would assist in moving the actual building.  The building was dedicated on May 1, 1896 by Bro. G. T. Grobarger.  The first pastor was J. H. Fuller.  The original structure was remodeled in 1907 but following a highly successful revival in 1911, during which the Church could not accommodate the crowds, plans were begun to build a new and larger building.  A new brick building was dedicated on February 16, 1913.  In 1978, the Church membership voted to construct a new building - the third Christian Church to set on the corner of Sixth Street and Franklin in Sedgwick.  Dedication was held on August 26, 1979. 

Plymouth Congregational Church

(316) 772-5895

402 N. Commercial

Pastor: Craig Reynolds

The Congregationalists have the distinction of having the first Church in Sedgwick.  The seats were planks placed on kegs and the pulpit was a board balanced on an empty lime barrel.  On June 8, 1876 three Chicago men donated a lot on 8th Street for a parsonage.  On December 8, 1912 the last meeting was held in the old Church.  On Saturday evening and all day Sunday, December 22, the services for the dedication of the new Church were held.

United Methodist Church

  (316) 772-5252

  606 N. Commercial

Pastor: Paul Stephens

The United Methodist Church was incorporated October 22, 1875.  The Methodists bought the old McClung Hotel and fitted it for a Church.  When this was found to be unsatisfactory the small brick schoolhouse was rented for a Church on Sundays.  A new Church was built and dedicated in 1879 on the present site, Commercial and Sixth Street.  This building was sold in April of 1913.  On May 13, 1913, ground was broken for the present building.  In April of 1968, the United Methodist Church became a reality unification of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church.