Two years in the planning stage, our educational annex is now about to enter the construction stage. A contract has been let to Pennington and Mackabee for $122,607.00 and work will begin this week. Ground breaking service for First Baptist Church Educational Annex LaFollette, Tennessee Sunday Morning March 11, 1956.

Left to Right: Joe Carden Sr. (Church Moderator) - Richard Turney (Youngest Member) - Dave Cordell (Brotherhood President) - Carolin Francis (WMU President) - Glenn Hill (Training Union Director) - Paul Miller (Sunday School Superintendent) - Rev. Vern Powers (Pastor) - Dudley Wright (Chairman of Deacons) - Edgar Davis (Building Committee Chairman) - J. T. Heatherly (Chairman of Trustees) - Clarence Farris (Finance Committee Chairman) - Mrs John P. Dail (Oldest Member)

Building Committee: E. G. Davis (Chairman), Marion Shelby, Harrison Parrott Jr., Paul Miller, W. B. Nevils, Floyd Parrott, J. T. Heatherly, Claude Claiborne and Bill Patterson.

Trustees have had the responsibility for bond issue and bond sale. They are J. T. Heatherly (Cha irman), Claude Claiborne, Gilbert Broyles, H. B. Jackson, L. C. Lindsay and Clarence Miller. The Bond Issue was for $100,000.00.

Link to photograph of congregation at the ground breaking services.