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[The following is a portion of the Fiftieth Anniversary Program of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches. This is a record of the churches and their date of constitution and joining the Association.]
Thirty churches have been in the Columbia Association. Two of them disbanded - the North Church, September 30, 1887, closing a period of fourteen years; and the first Chevy Chase Church in 1913, a period of eight years. One church， Columbia,ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COLUMBIA (D.C.) BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
By William Allen Wilbur, Litt. D., 1928ln 1877 the Columbia Association began with a constituent membership of six churches: Second Church, organized in. . . . . . . . . . . . ..1810 E Street Church, organized in . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1842 Fifth Church, organized in. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857 Calvary Church, organized in. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1862 Gay Street， West Washington, organized in. . . . . . .1866 North Church, organized in. . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1873Since 1877, twenty-four churches have come into the Association as follows: Metropolitan, 1878, received. . . . . . . . . . . . ..1879 Tennallytown, 1880, received. . . . . . . . . . . . ..1881 Brookland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1881 First Church, 1802, received. . . . . . . . . . . . ..1882 Anacostia ............................. 1884 Grace Church, 1884, received. . . . . . . . . . . . ..1885 Maryland Avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1891 East Washington Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1894 Hyattsville ............................ 1898 Kendall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901 Columbia ............................. 1901 Centennial ............................ 1902 Bethany .............................. 1904 Chevy Chase (First). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1905 lmmanuel ............................. 1906 Fountain Memorial, 1907, received. . . ...... 1908 Congress Heights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1910 Petworth, 1912, received. . ... ... ... .. .. . . . 1913 Church of the Redeemer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..1915 Takoma Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1919 Chevy Chase (second), 1923, received.... . . . 1924 Wilson Avenue, 1923, received........ . . . . 1924 Highlands, 1923, received............. . . . 1925 Silver Spring, 1924, received. . . . . . . . . . . . 1925
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united with Bethany in 1916, closing a period of fifteen years. This leaves at present twenty-seven churches. Metropolitan Church was the first addition to the original group. The likessing of the first Psalm has been with this church - "like a tree planted by the rivers of water."The First Church came into the Columbia Association in 1882 from the Potomac Association. Until 1820 the First Church had been in the Baltimore Baptist Association. At that time the First and the Second churches represented the Washington fellowship - the Second Church associated with the name of Spencer H. Cone, and the First Church with the pastorate of Obadiah B. Brown. To this ancient fellowship the First Church returned in 1882, after sixty-two years. Of the twenty-seven churches now in the Association, nineteen were organized under the auspices of the Association. This is 70 per cent. Three of these - Anacostia， East Washington Heights, and Fountain Memorial - were founded by David C. Fountain, one of the great men of the Association. Mr. Fountain was successively superintendent of the Sunday School in the Second Church， Anacostia, and East Washington Heights. He made his Father's business his business. Kendall was a branch mission of Calvary and it developed into a branch church, and then an independent church. It had the spiritual tone quality of Calvary and through these years the pastoral care of Rev. Theron Outwater - a man of vision and sagacity, and spiritual gentleness.
Centennial Church, under the ministry of Rev. E. Hez Swem， has achieved a notable growth and equipment without the aid of the Association. There is a challenge of faith and good works in this from a man of our own fellowship, for twenty-six years pastor of the Second Church and for five successive terms moderator of the Columbia Association. September 30, 1923， the Wilson Avenue Church was organized with about thirty members. Many of these charter members came from the Fifth Church, and under the spiritual watch-care of the pastor of that church it has developed. For one year only was it a mission church of the Association. In 1926 it became self-sustaining. Tennallytown and Queenstown were the earliest missions of the Association. In 1879 the report of the Executive Board tells of missionary labors on these fields. In 1881 newly organized churches on these fields came into the Association.
================== [From "The History of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches FIFTY YEARS， 1877-1927." Via SBTS Archives and Special Collections, Adam Winters, archivist. Paragraph breaks added. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]
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