Ballew's Chapel

        Free Will Baptist Church

                  Grubbs, Arkansas

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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