God{s hand of goodness and faithfulness has been clearly evident in the life of this ministry located in the mountains of western Maryland. We are grateful to the diligent recording by the men and women of our beginning years as the Lord moved and established our place of worship we call Eckhart Baptist Church.Some time prior to 1850, a family bearing the surname of Jennings migrated from England and settled at Eckhart Mines, MD. Mr. Jennings was a Roman Catholic but his wife, Catherine, had been converted after leaving England and had untied with a baptist church during a short period in New York. Mrs. Jennings promptly affiliated and joined the First Baptist Church of Cumberland, MD shortly after arriving in Eckhart.In late August of 1850, Reverend Benjamin Griffith, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cumberland, visited Mrs. Cathering Jennings in Eckhart. By her, he was induced to make an appointment to preach in the basement of the Episcopal Church on the next Thursday, September 5th. The room was crowded and he preached from Psalm 84:11 - "For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly."
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