Name/Title
The Pilgrim Church RegisterEntry/Object ID
1985-005-F1Description
Register of Pastors, including Name, Place of Birth, Date, College, Seminary Pastorate and Remarks
o Robert Jackson, Organizing Pastor ended Feb. 15, 1961
o Paul Edward Babbitt, Feb. 15, 1961 – June 30, 1965, died 8/18/1987
o Richard A. Kline, Jan. 1, 1966 – Aug. 31, 1966
o William Keeney, June 1, 1967 – Sept. 15, 1970
o Perry Dickinson Avery, Aug. 1970 – May 31, 1973
o Mrs. Alice B Snow, October 1973 – April 1, 1984
o Rober H. Midgley, May 1, 1984 – May 6, 1985 Interim minister
o George A. Ault, June 30, 1985 -
The first membership roll was compiled November 27, 1960.
Voted to incorporate September 7, 1961 with corporation officers elected.
Articles of Incorporation and Corporation Officers notarized on September 19, 1961.
Articles of Incorporation were filed in State Offices at Phoenix on September 22, 1961.
REGISTER OF OFFICERS 1965 - 1985
Moderators, page 4
Clerks, page 5
Treasurers, page 6
Financial Secretaries, page 7
Church School Superintendents, page 8
Deacons (Deacons and Deaconess combined as one Diaconate in 1971), pages 9 – 13
Deaconesses, page 17 – 18
Trustees, pages 25 – 27
Assistant Treasurer, page 33 – 34
Document signed by Robert L. Matlock, Historian and Flamen Ball, Moderator on Dec. 21, 1977 Action was taken by the Church Council on the 8th of December, 1977, to declare all those persons received into membership through December 1961 as “Pioneer Members”
Register of Members November 27, 1960 – Jan. 22, 1984, pages 38 – 77
Record of Church Attendance Nov. 27, 1960 – Dec. 27, 1981, pages 145 – 149, 210 – 215
Register of Baptisms April 2, 1961 – 12/17/1985, pages 150 – 161
Register of Marriages April 14, 1963 – Dec. 14, 1985, pages 178 – 193, 270 – 293
Record of Deaths Dec. 31, 1974 – Dec. 1985, pages 194 – 198
Pamphlet “. . . and a church is born!” with color photograph of model of church page 217
Minutes of Annual Meetings from February 9, 1960 - 1971
o Minutes of first meeting, Feb. 9, 1960, considering the purpose of organizing a new church in Sedona, Roster of those who attended
o Second meeting, February 16, 1960, vote taken to form a permanent organization for the purpose of forming a new church, Mrs. Don Smyth moved we name the new church “The Church of the Red Rocks”.
o March 1, 1960 contacted Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregation Churches and asked to have a representative of each group meet with them.
o March 31, 1960, voted that CRR request membership in the Arizona Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers
o Letter dated June 27, 1960, The Church of the Red Rocks formally affiliated with the Congregational Christian Church in fellowship with the United Church of Christ.
o January 10, 1961, First Annual meeting, 49 members. The building site of 4 lots on Broken Arrow was going into escrow at a price of $22,500. Discussion was held about the consolidation of the Congregational and Evangelical Reform Churches which would be called the U.C.C. Motion was made to accept this proposal.
o January 29, 1962, second annual meeting, 48 new members joined in 1961, 8 members lost, total of 84. Rev. Paul Babbitt accepted the call to the Church of the Red Rocks on February 15, 1961.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
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CRR Pioneer Members
