Lolita Churches

First Baptist Church
 

Lolita Baptist To Break Ground For New Church

Lolita—Ground on a three-acre site will be broken Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock for a new First Baptist Church in Lolita.

The new brick veneer church and education building, construction on which is to start shortly, will cost approximately $80,000. It will be built by Mercer Construction Co. of Edna.

Rev. R. H. Mathison, associational missionary of Victoria, will be the speaker at the ground breaking ceremony. Rev. A. M. Averett is the pastor.

The church auditorium will seat 385 persons and the education building about 380, Hugh Ottley, who designed the buildings, said. There will be about 10,000 square feet of floor space, including fellowship hall, kitchen and nurseries. The buildings will have central heating and will be air-conditioned.

The entire block around the church will the hard-topped, and there will be ample parking.

The public is invited to attend the Sunday ceremony.

Edna Weekly Herald, March 31, 1960
 

Lolita United Methodist Church
 

The current Lolita United Methodist Church was organized in 1913 and its first building had been put up in 1911 as a school on land donated by the C. S. Mitchells.

Records show the school there closed and the properties reverted to the Mitchells and then were donated to the Methodist church in 1913. The church disbanded in the late 1920s and reactivated in 1940 in the same building. Then the present church was constructed in 1975.--Victoria Advocate, September 27, 1980