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Other Recurring Services / Activities
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Wednesday (2nd Wednesday):
11:30 am: Church fellowship luncheon
Thursday (3rd Thursday):
10:00 am Women in the Church
Thursday (3rd Thursday):
7:30 pm Women in the Church
Thursday (2nd Wednesday):
10:30 am Summit Nursing Home worship service
Morning Aerobics Classes:
8:30 am every Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Evening Exercise Classes:
6:30 pm every Monday, and 7:00 pm every Tuesday
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Directions to
our Church Click here for map
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Our mailing address is: PO
Box 1664, Fountain Inn, SC 29644.
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Our church is located at:
126 Fairview Church Rd. in Fountain Inn.
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To get here from I-385:
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Take Exit 27 "Fairview
Rd."
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Go West on Fairview Road
(away from Simpsonville) for four miles.
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You will pass over Hwy 418.
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Go another mile and turn
left on Fairview Church Rd.
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We are 1/3 of a mile on the
right on Fairview Church Rd.
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 Fairview
Presbyterian Church was established in the Fall of 1786 and is the oldest
Presbyterian Church in Greenville County, South Carolina. The church was
named "Fairview" in honor of the old gray stone church in
Antrim County, Ireland, from which its founders came to America in 1773.
Three Peden brothers, John, Samuel, and David Peden, established the
church with their nephew, James Alexander, and good friend, James Nesbit.
They originally built a small log house of worship at this place. The
land was granted in lieu of payment to the soldiers of the Revolutionary
War.
Our present building is the fourth one, and was completed in 1858. The
square columns of the portico contain brick from the previous sanctuary
on this location. The building is on the National Register of Historical
Places, being considered a "fine example of the vernacular classic
revival widely used in the deep South until 1865" (Clemson
University Department of Architecture).
On these grounds in 1861 a group of men gathered to form the Bozeman
Guard which marched to the defense of the Confederate States, joining
with General Wade Hampton in Columbia, South Carolina.
In our rock walled cemetery are buried seven Revolutionary War soldiers,
as well as fifty Confederate soldiers. The oldest marked grave in the
cemetery is that of Elizabeth Alexander, 1797.
Two historic customs we still observe are: Offering the Lord's Supper to
communicants seated on benches at long tables (following the pattern of
the Scottish Reformer John Knox); and receiving offerings in a cloth
pouch affixed to a long slender wooden rod.
We joined with the Presbyterian Church in America soon after its foundation
in 1973. The PCA came into existence because of a need for a strongly
scriptural, evangelical, and Reformed witness to Christ which truly
honors God and the authority of his Word. Our doctrinal statement is the
historic Reformed creed known as the Westminster Confession of Faith,
originally composed in 1647 in England.
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