About
This 135-year old institution, known as Second Missionary Baptist Church of Junction City, KS had its beginnings in 1873, just eleven years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1862. Two brethren from the First Baptist Church - Rev. Ransom and Mr. York, a laymen and the father of Nellie and John York - guided a group of seven in the organization. At that time, it was known as the First Colored Baptist Church and was so charted.