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Article: Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 150 Years of Service, 1854-2004.(Book review)
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- Baptist History and Heritage
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- June 22, 2006
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Second to None: A History of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church, 150 Years of Service, 1854-2004. By C. Douglas Weaver. Brentwood, TN: Baptist History and Heritage Society and Nashville, TN: Fields Publishing, Inc., 2004, 280 pp.
Douglas Weaver, in writing the history of the first 150 years of Second-Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, has provided an excellent model for local church historians. Second to None is a well-written and extremely well-organized local church history.
In his preface, Weaver notes that this Baptist congregation's history provides "an important case study for understanding the role of a local Baptist church in the ...