First Baptist Church of Boldo

First Baptist Church Boldo, formerly Leroy Baptist Church, is a Baptist church located in Jasper. The current paster is Don Graham.

The church was founded in 1877 as part of a joint effort with a group from the Church of Christ. They alternated services in a "crude structure" on Sunrise Road until the Church of Christ group moved out in 1901. The Baptists took the name "Leroy Baptist Church" in honor of its first pastor and built a new meeting house in 1910.

In the late 1940s the church moved to Boldo Cemetery Road. The building was expanded for a Sunday School in 1962. It adopted its present name in the mid 1980s. In 2003 the church moved to a new "Christian Life Center" nearby on Alabama Highway 69 while it constructed its present 400-seat sanctuary. The first service in the new building was held on September 4, 2005.

A 1945 fire at Pastor Clayton Shaw's home destroyed many of the church's records. Another fire in 1977 destroyed most of what remained.

Pastors

• 1877- :Leroy Williams
• 1940s: Clayton Shaw
• 1960-1962: Billy Beasley
• 1968-1970: C. W. Box
• 1999-2001: David Caroll
• -present: Don Graham

References

• Heyman, Greg (January 8, 2009) "FBC Boldo celebrates 100 years." Alabama Baptist