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Article: Friendship Baptist Sunday School Celebrates 127 Years
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- Washington Informer
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- May 21, 2003
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Washington Informer
05-21-2003
When Friendship Baptist Church in Southwest celebrated its 127 years of
Sunday School last week, the epicenter of the celebration was 91-year old
Mary Taylor.
Taylor started Sunday School at Frienship when she was 20. Seventy-one
years later, she still looks forward eagerly to arriving at church early
and performing her duties as a Sunday School teacher.
According to Taylor, she began teaching at the Church when a new
superintendent they had decided to do a thorough re-organization at
Friendship when she was 20. "When the new superintendent came, she
appointed me to start teaching juniors between the ages of nine and 11.
Then, he saw the need for counseling young ...