By 1938, elders and deacons had been appointed. Two classrooms, a restroom, and a baptistery were added. In 1945, a preacher’s house was built just west of the building. Clem Thurman and his wife, Ann, were the first to live there. Then, in 1958, more classrooms, another restroom, and a nursery were added to the church building, along with an upstairs containing still more classrooms and a study.

In 1969 , a new brick house was built to replace the old preacher’s house. Then, in 1971, the present church building was built. It was constructed to seat over 300 people and had a dozen classrooms, a fellowship room, office, and a nursery. In 1982, a two story addition doubled the size of the fellowship room, added eight more classrooms, another office, more restroom facilities and a printing room. On November 23, 1987, the auditorium was filled to capacity when a record 340 people met for then Sunday morning worship service. A complete renovation of the building was completed in 2000.

In 1977, Kenton Harvey came to us from the Justin Church of Christ. He preached here at the Aledo church of Christ for 31 years. Preacher’s now days do not stay that long at any one congregation. His tenure here speaks volumes for him and the Aledo congregation. Currently, Ron Buch is our pulpit minister and Chip Norman is our minister of music. Chip and Dan Archibald currently share the Youth Ministry work.

 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ALEDO CHURCH OF CHRIST

Although there are undocumented reports of tent meetings in Aledo in the late 1890’s, the earliest confirmed record of the church of Christ in Aledo dates from 1902 when G. Dallas Smith conducted a tent meeting here. Afterward, the meetings of the church were held in the school building with W.H.Hodges as minister.

In 1904, the elders of the Christian Church in Aledo (B.F. Spain, Dr. Lacy, H.W. Middleton and V.O. Hildreth) purchased the tract of land at the SW corner of the end of Bowie Street (one block south of the RR crossing) and a meeting house was constructed there in 1906 (it is now known as the Parsons House, a commercial endeavor).

In 1927, brother J.H. Richards from Ft Worth, Naomi Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Wiley and family, and Mrs. Robert Spain met at the building and made plans to begin having worship services every Sunday. Many preachers came to help in those early years – they included: Jesse Powell, IOra Sanders, Willard Morrow, Will Swope, Ira Brister, John Straighton, R.L. Yancy, James Shock, Joe Scarborough, Elbert Pearcy, brothers Birchman, Mahon, Stricling, and Bradshaw