Welcome to our visitors
We at the Joelton church of Christ want
you to know that we are very pleased to have you as a visitor to our
services. If you have never attended a church of Christ service before,
you might find our worship services a bit different from where you have
attended in the past. At Joelton church we follow the pattern of worship
that is demonstrated to us in the book of The Acts of the Apostles and
the New Testament Epistles.
If you have any questions about our services, the sermon, or if we can
be of assistance to you in any way, please feel free to contact us.
We hope you will visit us again
Our History
The first meeting of the Joelton congregation was in
June 1967 in the backyard of the house that Hackett Potter had just sold
to Lucian Minton. A regular meeting place was shortly secured and this
group of about 100 people used the temporary name of Dry Fork church of
Christ. Ronnie Gower was preacher for the first year and DeWight Lanham
was song leader. By the end of the year the congregation had doubled and
the decision was made to move the meeting place to Joelton. The first
appointed trustees were Allen M Endsley, H.R. Potter, Charles E.
Masters, Howard B. Moore and Lucian Minton. The new building on Old
Clarksville Hwy was inaugurated on January 19, 1969 with Leonard Owens
as minister.
The published church directory listed 138 members of the Dry Fork church
of Christ, 32 of whom are still members at Joelton. Other men who have
served as ministers are John Hurt, Bruce White, Bill Johnson and Roger Hatley. Wayne Baliff and Frank Bunner have served as associate ministers
and Brian Magnuson, Steve Hackney, Joey McKinney and David McKinney
served as interns.
The first elders, Lucian Minton and Russell Gentry, Sr. were appointed in the
Fall of 1978. Later elders include Larry Rogers, Ray Adcock, Clay McCool
and Gene Nicks. The first deacons were appointed in the Spring of 1979.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the men and women of conviction, courage,
vision and spiritual integrity who stepped out in faith to establish
this congregation, which to us is now a spiritual family.
The Joelton church exists to reach the lost, to continue to grow as a
family of God, to serve our fellow man, and foremost, to worship God in
spirit and in truth.
