Forest Hill is Organized
Forest Hill organizes with 48 charter members at Patrick Henry Elementary School. The church grows out of a church-planting mission started in March by East Hanover Presbytery.
Church History Highlights
1924
1924
Property Purchased
Property at 41st and Boscobel Avenue is purchased for $2,500. After remodeling by men of the church, the building is used beginning in October 1925.
1924
1925
First Pastor
James C. Faw, a student at Union Theological Seminary who had been preaching for the presbytery’s planting mission, is ordained and installed as pastor.
1941
Old Kemp House
Rev. Howard Cobbs, pastor from 1939-1944, is instrumental in acquiring the Old Kemp House, our present site, for $7,500. The two-story frame house with wrap-around front porch is used for Sunday school classes while worship services are still held at 41st Street. The barn is renovated for Sunday school and other programs.1941
1961
First Worship Service
The first service in the new sanctuary is held. The original windows were pastel-colored glass. Stained glass memorial windows are installed in the 1960s and ’70s by Willet Studios in Philadelphia.
1961
Child Care Center Opens
Fannie Pharr starts the Child Care Center, which becomes a ministry of our church in 1974.
1961
1987
Second Mile Endowment Fund Established
The Second Mile Endowment Fund is established for benevolent giving beyond the church budget.
2000+
New Ministries
More mission partners join our Child Care Center and the AA group in using the building, such as the El Shaddai Fellowship and the Forest Hill Neighborhood Association.
2000+
2004
Phideaux Field Opens
Learn more about the dog park in the front yard of our church.
Phideaux Field opens to serve God’s four-legged friends.
2014
Prayer Garden
The Jack Bare Prayer Garden is created in the church courtyard.2014
2015
Dedications
The labyrinth and butterfly garden are dedicated to Cindy Creasy and Rowe’s Canopy Row to Maurice Rowe.2018
New Memorials
New hymnals memorialize Chic Lyttle and Virginia Wrenn. Expanded butterfly habitat memorializes Virginia Wrenn.
2018
Pastors
1925: Rev. James C. Faw
1929: Rev. Aber Robertson
1939: Rev. Howard C. Cobbs
1945: Rev. Clayton C. Crawford
1967: Rev. Edward Humphrey
1972: Rev. Charles Lee Hammet
1976: Dr. Leslie T. West
1996: Dr. Stephen Price-Gibson
2009: Dr. Robert Johnson
2012: Dr. Keith Johnston
2017: Rev. Katherine Todd
