Excerpt from Fifty Favored Years, a History of St. John's Baptist Church: On the Occasion of the Observance of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Church at Charlotte, North Carolina, March 26, 1972 The contents of these pages are referred to as a history. But they are not a complete history. Words could never tell the entire story of St. Johns. Of necessity the history refers primarily to ministers, other staff members and elected leaders. But the true history of St. John's has been written by the hundreds of persons who have served tirelessly as Sunday School teachers, as children's workers, as choir members, as meal servers at many dinner functions, as contributors of time and money. St. John's has been blessed by these faithful members and favored by God over its 50-year history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.