Preaching to the point.points - John D. Pierce Blog - Baptists .
By John Pierce
On Friday, my friend Ed Pettibone took me to the historic First Church in Albany, N.Y. also known as the North Dutch Church. The building was erected between 1797-1799.
The Dutch Reformed congregation, founded in 1642, claims the oldest pulpit in America - brought from the Netherlands in 1656 for an old set of worship known as the Blockhouse church.