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Briarwood Presbyterian Church company history timeline

1960

JUNE 5, 1960 First worship service held in the Cahaba Heights Shopping Center.

Here in one room you can follow Briarwood’s history from its beginnings in 1960 up to today.

Although Briarwood was founded in 1960, we’ve had only two Senior Pastors in all that time.

1961

In 1961, when Connor, Waggoner Sr. and Hanes allowed the Ku Klux Klan a "15- or 20-minute" window to attack the Freedom Riders, Jabo Waggoner was 24 years old.

1963

SEPTEMBER 29, 1963 First worship service in Highway 280 facility.

Meet state Senator J.T. "Jabo" Waggoner, the 80-year-old powerbroker who has served in the Alabama Legislature since 1963.

1966

1966 Briarwood’s first World Missions Conference.

1973

DECEMBER 4, 1973 First General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America [PCA] held at Briarwood Presbyterian Church.

So those churches banded together to form the PCA. While this might sound like a pre-Civil War origin story, this did not take place in the antebellum South--this was 1973.

1988

JANUARY 1988 First Worship Service at I-459/Acton Road location.

1998

OCTOBER 1998 Election of pulpit committee to recommend new Senior Pastor to replace the Rev.

2010

2010 Briarwood’s 50th Anniversary, The Year of Jubilee is celebrated

The 2010 census ranked Birmingham as the fourth-blackest city in America, with an African-American population of nearly 74 percent.

2011

2011 “For Coming Generations” campaign begun for youth and children’s expansion projects.

2012

May 11, 2012 The Barn opens for Youth Ministries.

In 2012, at a PCA General Assembly, Briarwood's Tom Leopard condemned Disney for its views on homosexuality.

2013

March 31, 2013 The Children’s Auditorium addition to the main campus opens.

2016

The PCA did finally ask for forgiveness and apologize for its racist past--in 2016.

2022

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