SOUTHEAST BAPTIST CHURCH HISTORY BY YEAR
(Source: 25 Year Calendar)

Date

Event

01/23/75

Six women met at the Salmon's home to discuss a new church

02/07/75

First meeting of Southeast Baptist Chapel at Forest Oaks Country Club (35 people attended)

02/26/75

Cottage prayer meetings held to support Southeast Baptist Chapel

03/02/75

First worship service at Monnett house

04/09/75

Southeast Chapel became mission of first Baptist

04/13/75

First baptism of SE Chapel

04/17/75

WMU and GA's organized

05/05/75

Rev. Dale Suggs became Interim Pastor

07/24/75

First Youth Retreat

08/20/75

First Church Council

10/30/75

Chapel purchased Board property (43 members)

11/02/75

First service at Board house, first Lord's Supper

07/12/76

First Vacation Bible School

09/26/76

Rev. Jimmy Edwards became first Pastor (part-time)

05/01/77

Mobile Meals began

06/03/77

First Revival

12/21/77

Church Christmas Party at Pleasant Garden Community Center

01/15/78

Ski trip to Appalachian

10/04/78

Membership passes 200 at Board House

11/19/78

Church groundbreaking for sanctuary and educational building

11/08/79

Steeple raised on new sanctuary

01/24/80

First Men's Bake-off

01/27/80

Congregation walked from Board house to new building during worship service (250 members)

02/10/80

Dedication of new church building

02/17/80

Rice Supper

03/23/80

Laying of cornerstone

04/01/80

Dr. Roger Gilbert became first full-time pastor

10/06/80

Michael Ganoe, Minister of Music

11/12/80

First deacons nominated

02/22/81

Jim Wrenn, Minister of Music

03/01/81

Children's sermons began

04/12/81

Sanctuary completed (335 members) and first baptism in new sanctuary

04/22/81

Youth slave auction to raise mission trip funds

05/03/81

Youth mission trip to West Virginia

05/24/81

First GA Recognition Service

05/31/81

First picnic behind church; area cleared by Jeff Reitzel for Eagle Scout project

07/20/81

Youth trip to Caswell

08/28/81

The First SEBC Invitational Golf Tournament

12/01/81

First Christmon Tree

03/22/82

First Christmon class

04/11/82

First Sunrise Service

05/02/82

Church constituted (363 members)

08/10/82

Bob Thomas, Minister of Youth

08/22/82

First "Children's Church"

10/03/82

Bobbie Cordell, Minister of Music

03/02/83

Men's "Under 30" basketball season champs (9-1 record)

04/18/83

Revival with Dr. Cecil Sherman

06/11/83

Youth sponsored "Po Boy" supper

06/02/84

Dr. Bruce Anthony became Pastor

08/29/84

Cathy Ray, Minister of Music

11/15/84

David Holland, Minister of Youth

12/31/85

First New Year's Eve Gathering

10/01/86

Rev. Henry Newton became Associate Pastor

01/28/87

Long Range Planning committee submitted final report

03/01/87

"Masterlife" prayer retreat

05/17/87

"Challenge to Build" banquet

08/24/87

Partnership Missions Project Liverpool, England

09/06/87

Gale Smith, Minister of Music

01/25/88

"Masterlife" workshop

02/14/88

Groundbreaking for educational wing

03/03/88

New York Home Missions Trip

07/02/89

Rev. David Lindeman, Minister of Music and Education

08/14/89

Educational Wing dedicated

09/30/89

Habitat for Humanity - Couples Class project

10/01/89

England Revival

12/02/89

Midnight Madness Bowling

01/13/90

Youth ski trip to Wintergreen

02/23/90

RA Pinewood Derby

04/01/90

"Here's Hope" revival

07/07/90

Youth rafting trip to Nantahala

08/19/90

Call to prayer for armed forces in Gulf War

04/19/91

Youth retreat at Garden City

08/03/91

Centrrifuge at Union University, Jackson, TN

10/11/91

Young Adults Marriage Retreat

10/27/91

First woman deacon elected

02/23/92

Town Hall meeting

02/25/92

Youth breakfast with the Hackelmans'

04/05/92

Ladies' Prayer Retreat at Emerald Isle

05/03/92

10th Anniversary Homecoming, speaker Dr. S. C. Ray

06/15/92

VBS "Marketplace 29 A.D."

07/18/92

Centrrifuge at Carson-Newman

09/18/92

Lay Renewal Weekend

11/01/92

Senior Citzens "TLC" meeting

11/22/92

Tray Coble, Minister of Youth

12/14/92

Sandy Ridge Prision Project

01/03/93

New Wine" Trio

01/31/93

First Place" began

02/27/93

Men and boys' Rally at Rockingham Speedway

03/14/93

Revival with Dr. Tom Melzoni

04/18/93

New Wine" quartet

04/25/93

Sign-up for co-ed softball

05/06/93

"Planned Growth in giving" emphasis dinner

06/15/93

VBS "Marketplace 29 A.D."

09/15/93

Wednesday night suppers - Chef Don Hooker

09/21/93

Layman Cash's Nursing Home Ministry

09/26/93

"Year of the Family" emphasis

10/05/93

Co-ed Praise Aerobics began

11/21/93

First Angel Tree

12/31/93

Youth New Year's Eve Prayer Watch

01/02/94

Joint praise at Mt. Zion Church

01/28/94

Adult choir "Hoedown"

02/01/94

Clayton Homes Ministry

05/01/94

Homecoming - picnic at Hagan Stone Park

05/15/94

Revival with Dr. Harvey Whaley

06/05/94

Dr. Anthony 10th Anniversary

06/26/94

Ordination of Tray Coble to ministry

07/01/94

David Sowers, Minister of Youth

07/03/94

Baptistery cross dedicated in memory of Dot Salmon

07/06/94

Sid Wrenn's prison ministry

03/24/95

Boy Scout Pinewood Derby

03/28/95

Basketball Banquet with Mike Hogewood

05/27/95

Boy Scouts Water-O-Ree at Emerald Pointe

10/08/95

Church voted for Intentional Interim Program to find new pastor

05/05/96

Intentional Interim program Dr. Jim Murphy, consultant

06/14/96

Transition Team retreat at Carraway

06/21/96

Promise Keepers Summer Conference at Charlotte Motor Speedway

06/30/96

"World Changers" mission trip to Memphis, TN

07/01/96

Rev. Joey Tomlin, Interim Pastor

02/17/97

Sew 'n' Sow" craft ministry by Jane Branch

04/03/97

WMU sponsored tutoring program at Alamance Elem.

05/17/97

Health Fair at Mt. Zion Church

07/01/97

Rev. Joey Tomlin, became Pastor

09/01/97

Rev. Nicholas Holman, Interim Minister of Music and Education

10/05/97

Promise Keepers Assembly in Washington, DC

01/04/98

The Clothes Closet organized

01/12/98

SEBC became Red Cross emergency location

01/16/98

Youth Smoky Mountain Bible Conference at Gatlinburg, TN

02/22/98

Go, Go, Jonah" presented by Children's Choir

04/04/98

Kathy Shepherd, Minister of Music

05/02/98

Health Fair at Vietnamese Church on Sharpe Road

05/31/98

"The Redneck Was Right" - Keith Deltano, Christian Comedian

07/25/98

InAsMuch Ministry

08/06/98

Rich Dymmel began "College and Career Connection" letter

08/25/98

Lonnie Baxley created church website

09/09/98

LIFE University, Team Kids, Youth M-Night

09/13/98

Old Fashioned Baptism and Picnic at Piney Lake

09/23/98

Unified worship began

10/01/98

"Crimson and White Connection" began

12/02/98

Church-wide Missions Banquet with Dr. Keith Parks

12/09/98

First Hand Bells performance

12/12/98

"Four Tickets to Christmas" drama

12/31/98

New Year's Eve celebration with "New Wine"

01/05/99

Brownie Troop 941 began

06/17/99

"M-Fuge" at West Palm Beach, Florida

10/29/99

First "Trunks of Treats"

11/06/99

Eastern NC Flood Relief - Baptist Men

12/05/99

First "Hanging of the Greens"

12/07/99

Mobile Meals Christmas Bags delivered