FBC MOLINE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Worship & Prayer Coordinator
Church member H. H. Grover, a former Moline school superintendent,organized the nation's first Baptist Young People's Union in the mid 1870's. The popularity of the young people's group and the church's continued growth made space a problem, and a new church was built and dedicated in 1886. A Sunday School annex was added in 1910 and the church basement was excavated a few years later to make more space for additional classrooms. This was no easy task as the dirt in the basement was so hard that the men had to use picks to loosen the dirt, then shovel it into buckets.