Penang Baptist Church

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Penang Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in Penang. The Chinese language assembly is presently located at Macalister Road.

The history of Penang Baptist Church goes back to after the Second World War. In 1953, the Southern Baptist Convention in the United States sent Reverend Greene Strother and his wife Martha from the Foreign Mission Board on an evangelical trip to Malaya. Initially, Sunday services were held at the home of Mrs Oh Hock Teck until the church bought a bungalow at 35 Anson Road. The bungalow was then used as the church, theological seminary and also residence of the Strothers.

In December 1954, Martha Strother started the English Youth Fellowship for the benefit of the English educatede. It eventually developed into an English language worship service that became the Georgetown Baptist Church.

In 1957, the church bought a property at 224 Macalister Road for RM80,000, of which US$15,000 was a gift offering from the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Services continued to be carried out at 35 Anson Road until 1967, when the property was sold, and the church moved to 224 Macalister Road. At that time, Macalister Road was an affluent residential neighbourhood. In 1977, the Government changed the zoning of the area, thus enabling the bungalow to be used as a church. After some renovation, the Penang Baptist Church at Macalister Road was open on 1 January, 1978.

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Penang Baptist Church
224 Macalister Road
10400 Penang
Tel: 04 228 9161

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Penang Baptist Church (7 December 2009)
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