A workshop notebook on Waco church heritage

Waco, Texas

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Ministries and Rooms

Rooms that still work: preschool and Montessori wings, Sunday school classrooms, and the ministries that fill a church during the week.

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The same rows of rooms that held Sunday classes were pressed into other weekday service.

Ministries and Rooms The Meals-on-Wheels ministry a Waco church ran How Austin Avenue's 1970s Meals-on-Wheels unit fit into a national home-delivered meal movement that began in Philadelphia in 1954. 06/10/2026 · 5 min

A brick entrance like this once opened as readily onto a campus ministry as onto a Sunday service.

Ministries and Rooms The Wesley Foundation center the church built for Baylor In 1964 Austin Avenue built a Methodist Student Center for the Wesley Foundation at Baylor University, joining a campus ministry founded in 1913. 06/10/2026 · 4 min

A narrow Sunday school classroom, wooden chairs facing an empty chalkboard.

Ministries and Rooms The Sunday school movement and the wings churches built How the Sunday school movement led Waco churches to add education wings and classrooms behind the sanctuary. 13/09/2026 · 7 min

A hallway built for Sunday now serves the youngest members all week long.

Ministries and Rooms Weekday preschool and Montessori ministries How weekday preschool and Montessori ministries used the rooms of Waco church buildings during the week. 12/09/2026 · 8 min

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