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Mission Springs Baptist Church, Rusk Co, TX
From Henderson, take FM 840 about 3 miles. Church is on
the left.
Marker Text
Several members of Ebenezer Baptist Church, organized nearby in 1884,
established Missionary Springs Baptist Church n 1894. The church is named for
springs at the site of initial brush arbor services. The Rev. William Hendrix
was called as first pastor in 1902, the year the church joined the Southern
Baptist Association. A frame sanctuary was erected at this site about 1905.
Renamed Mission Springs Baptist Church about 1918, the congregation has acquired
new facilities over the years and continues its support of a Sunday School,
youth groups, and home and foreign missions. Sesquicentennial of Texas Statehood
1845 - 1995
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