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Second Baptist Church, 97th Anniversary

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Second Baptist Church, 97th Anniversary

August 20, 2026

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Second Baptist Church of El Paso marked its ninety-seventh anniversary in 1981, commemorating a congregation founded in 1884 among a small Black community in the city. The church began when five Baptist believers—Joe Pollard and his wife, Thomas Gaines, Calvin Neal, and George Duval—organized under…

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