A History of Florida Baptist's Sunday School is a gathering of facts, stories, legends, and dreams from the earliest known Sunday school in 1843 through 2004.
This writing identifies over 400 people who have made significant contributions to Sunday school work in Florida; provides historical records through tables and statistics; and gives chronological as well as topical studies in one resource.
Information comes from personal interviews, telephone conversations, associational minutes, church records, and over 100 years of records from state convention annuals and The Florida Baptist Witness, including a historic report to the convention in 1911 by Dr. W.A. Hobson, who was then pastor of the First Baptist Church, Jacksonville.
The story of Sunday school is written in every church, by every Sunday school leader, so there is no way to compile a comprehensive history of Sunday school, but this volume at least gathers information for reference and historians.
L. DAVID CUNNINGHAM served in Florida Baptist Sunday schools for 31 of the 161 years written about in this history. He has demonstrated a love for and commitment to Sunday school work since beginning his ministry as an older teen. After reading a Life magazine article, "Sunday School the Most Wasted Hour in the Week," in the February 11, 1957, issue, he made a commitment to see that Sunday school would be the most significant hour of the week.
Called as Minister of Education to First Baptist Church, Orlando, he served there for 11 years and then was chosen to lead Florida Baptist Sunday schools for the next 17 years.
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University (B.A.) and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (M.R.E.), he served churches in Arkansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas before moving to Florida in January 1973.
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