A SIDCUP church has celebrated its 60th anniversary with a series of events.
Albany Park Baptist Church began its life in the sitting room of a house in Hurst Road during the Second World War.
When there were too many people for the sitting room, the church rented a shop near Albany Park railway station, now a dry cleaner's.
As numbers kept on growing, the church outgrew the shop as well and eventually moved to its present home, in Stansted Crescent.
Among the celebration events was an exhibition of the history of the church which was visited by several hundred schoolchildren.
As well as seeing the photographs and the exhibition, the children tried a Sunday school class, walked through the baptistry where full immersion baptisms are done and explored the bible on computer.
The church's young people also gave performances of the musical Dangerous Journey, based on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
And there were special church services, for which the preacher was the Reverend Dr Pat Took, metropolitan superintendent of the London Baptist Association.
November 5, 2001 20:14
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