Church of Firsts

• First Church of Deliverance (FCD) was the first Spiritual Church in the City of Chicago

• Our founder, Reverend Clarence H. Cobbs, was the first person to obtain a life membership to     N.A.A.C.P. The N.A.A.C.P. held their first Pastors & Church Workers annual breakfast in the FCD  dining room

• FCD was the first to sing Gospel Choral music in Europe 1966-1967

• FCD was the first to operate a soup line & food depository during the Great Depression. Later in   1950, Rev. Cobbs purchased a Mobile Canteen to make service available for disaster & emergency uses

• FCD was the first to hold religious services in Statesville Prison & the Virginia Federal Prison

• FCD has been broadcasting over the radio & now over the internet for 91 continuous years

• FCD was the first African American church to broadcast services on television on Channel 7 now, ABC 7 in 1953

• FCD was the first to own & operate a music publishing company. Founded by Ralph H. Goodpasteur in 1953

• FCD was the first to own & operate its own printing company

• FCD established the first blood bank at Provident Hospital

• FCD was the first to baptize in Lake Michigan

• FCD was the first church in Chicago to own a modern convalescent home

• FCD was the first to build an ultra modern 2-story Children’s Church

• FCD was the first church to use the Hammond Organ in regular worship services