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Hermitage Baptist to celebrate 235th year

Hermitage Baptist Church is located at 94 Wares Bridge Road in Church View. (Contributed)

Hermitage Baptist Church at Church View will celebrate its 235th anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 29.

Sunday school will be at 10 a.m., worship at 11 a.m. and lunch at 12:15 p.m. in the fellowship hall.

The Rev. Chuck Cooper, former pastor, will be the guest preacher for the day.

Hermitage Baptist Church was constituted in 1789 and the first building was a framed structure about 100 yards behind the old Revis Post Office. Hermitage is a daughter church of Glebe Landing Baptist.

Twenty-nine pastors have served Hermitage. The Rev. Vincent Joseph McKnight, Jr. is the current pastor.

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