From an article in Northumberland Today – Thursday, August 31, 2017
A member since 1950, Arthur Broomfield recalls attending church as a child on chilly mornings before the building was heated with a furnace.
“I used to start the fire here,” he said. There were also changes made to the addition with a larger kitchen, storage area, and pastor’s study.
Broomfield has seen a lot of changes over the years. He was baptized in a nearby creek. In 1985, a well was drilled giving the church its first running water. The church now has a baptismal tank.
Despite the small population of the area, the Eddystone Baptist Church sees an average congregation of about 35 people, said Pastor Bill Thompson. The congregants come from as far as Brighton, Colborne, and Millbrook. Rev. Thompson came to fill the pulpit for a few months on Jan. 1, 2007 and stayed on.
The beautiful atmosphere of the small rural church and Rev. Thompson’s services are likely why people travel from outside the community to attend the church, said Johnson. There are also not many Baptist churches left in the area.
