Contact Info
First Baptist Church ABC
Mark Bjornbak
215 East Harrison
Sullivan, IL 61951
Phone: 217-728-8252
Email: mark.bjornbak@mediacombb.net
Website: www.fbc61951.org
Hours of Operation
Always OpenAbout Us
These Christian men were dedicated to having made the trip and gone to such lengths to help locate a Baptist Church in Sullivan. The mode of transportation was by horse or horse and wagon over dirt roads or perhaps gravel roads. Road oil was not used on roads until about 1920, and then only lightly to keep down the dust. The elder from Springfield probably came by train, since the Illinois Central Railroad was completed from Decatur to Mattoon in 1872.
At this time there were only 5 other churches in Sullivan. They were First Christian, Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic and the Church of Jesus Christ founded by the Hagerman and Harshman families. Our church was first known as the Baptist Church of Christ.