SUNDAY START TIMES
Worship: 10:00am
On Friday night at early lamp-lighting, the 18th of March 1870, James Jacobs and John C. Miller, the former an Elder and the latter an Evangelist of the Church of Christ at Williamsburg Johnson County, Indiana, began a series of meetings in the Separate Baptist Meeting house, known as Lick Spring Meeting House, which were continued until Tuesday night, March
29th. During that time twenty three persons were immersed on a confession of their faith in Christ, the nineteen others were found in the neighborhood who had already obeyed the Gospel were willing to give their religious influence to an organism founded simply on the Word of God. Monday March 28th having been appointed for the organizing, a meeting was held for that purpose at the residence of Thomas J. McMurray, where forty one persons enrolled their names and gave each other the hand of Christian fellowship on the following:
(Williamsburg is now know as Nineveh.) Carmel, Johnson County pioneer families built a church and it still stands there today. The church which carries the name of the knoll is located in Nineveh Township a few miles north of the Brown County line. The site for the building was provided by Thomas J. McMurray and the plot for the burial ground by Aaron Dunham. The Nineveh-Hensley Township line divides the two.
