First Baptist Church makes history, installing female senior pastor
Rev. Kathryn Kimmel — at the First Baptist Church pulpit Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021 — is the first woman to lead the congregation since it was established in a log cabin near the Mississippi River in 1839. (Louis Tucker/Special to The Daily Memphian)
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Rev. Kathryn Kimmel will lead the Midtown Memphis congregation, which first met in 1839 in a log cabin near the Mississippi River.
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