Ballew’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church

History

  The Ballew’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church was organized in 1912 by J.A. Kaffka and A.J. Rowlett.  The first pastor was J.A. Kaffka and the first deacons were J.R. Ballew, John Butts, J.N. McCoy, Lonnie Anderson, and Lonnie Palmer.  Services were held in the Ballew’s Chapel schoolhouse.

  In 1938 the Ballew’s Chapel schoolhouse was torn down.  A new schoolhouse was built behind the old one.  It is believed that the church met in the new schoolhouse.  In 1942 the church built a new building about a half of a mile north of the Cemetery and old Ballew’s Chapel school where the Riley house is presently located.  In 1946 the Ballew’s Chapel school consolidated with Grubbs and the schoolhouse was moved to Grubbs.

  In 1952 built a new church building was built on the Ballew’s Chapel cemetery site (where the old Ballew’s Chapel school once stood).

  In 1967 a new additions was made to the church and in 1972 the church built a parsonage just north of the church.

PASTORS

J.A. Kafka--1912

L.C. Doyle--1918

C.H. Palmer--1926

George Million--1929

L.C. Doyle--1931

Ray Watkins--1942

Herman Lewis--1946

Ray Watkins--1948

Part-time Pastors--1949-52

J.W. Blanks--1953

Ray Watkins--1954

Clarence Burton--1955

Clarence Campbell--1960

Grover Terry--1962

Robert Frances--1964

Bill VanWinkle--1966

Richard Bowers--1970

Terrell Holland--1972

Dale Pitts--1975

Russell Johnson--1978

Robert Hidde--1987

Leroy Blankenship--1989

Hoover Lewis--1992

Harlen Johnson--2003

O.D. Winfrey--2006

David Winfrey--2007

DEACONS

J.R. Ballew--1912

John Butts--1912

J.N. McCoy--1912

Lonnie Anderson--1912

Lonnie Palmer--1912

W.A. Bradley--1935

Ray Watkins--1935

H.C. Doyle

W.N. McCoy--1944

J.W. Sexton

A.T. Blanks--1944

Joe Woodruff--1946

Virgil Odglen--1954

Earl Clark--1954

George Tubbs--1954

Earl Morgan--1962

Elvis Crotts--1980

Kenneth Clark--1980

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