The Broadway church was organized two years ago with twenty-seven members. Its visible wealth at that time was a dry goods box for a pulpit and three dozen song books; its place of meeting was a store room. The territory surrounding the mission is a splendid section of the city and offers the best opportunities for church work. In this section are more than two thousand children in the ward schools while there are but four Sunday schools. It is from two to three miles up town to the big churches and besides the distance the car fare is prohibitive to the average family. So they welcome the church in their midst. Almost every Sunday there are in the audiences, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Unitarians, and people of no church. During this summer there have been from fifteen to forty strangers at the service each Sunday.
A most excellent lot was bought at Twenty-fourth street and Broadway costing $2,400, and in the fall of 1902 the church extension committee sent Rev. T. N. Williams to take charge of the work and build them a house. Mr. Williams at once drew plans for a convenient house suitable for modern city church work. Besides the auditorium it had a Sunday school room, three class rooms, study, vestibules and a basement adapted to guild work. Of course, the usual money question stared the committee in the face. When the plans were submitted to the contractors the lowest bid for the unfurnished house, without glass in the windows, was $7,179, but the committee could not make a contract at this place as they had only a few hundred dollars and not thousands.

With firm faith that a house could be built Mr. Williams put aside the bids, put on his overalls, hired a man and went to work to erect the building. Scarcely a piece of timber is in the structure that he did not handle. He used the hammer and saw, the trowel, the spade, the paint brush, tinners' tools, and recently put in some stone and cement work. From seven o'clock in the morning till six and seven in the evening this was kept up for months, while on Sundays there were two preaching services and Sunday school and between times pastoral work. The congregation moved into the Sunday school room last March and in June held the first services in the auditorium. What a happy day! after the struggle, work and prayer. In the meantime the heroic women were working to raise money to furnish the church.

While the house is not completed it is near enough to estimate its cost, which will be about $4,200. The difference between this amount and what the contractors wanted is what Mr. Williams saved by doing the work. Is it a nice job? Ask Dr. Grider, Rev. J. A. McKamy, or others who have been in it. Now the lot, building and furnishing will cost $7,600, and all paid but three thousand dollars. This is remarkable when it is remembered that it has all been raised in the Louisville presbytery except three or four hundred dollars. The remaining three thousand dollars has been divided into six hundred shares of five dollars each and individuals are invited to take share. If five shares or more are taken, five years is allowed to pay for them. Friends over Kentucky will be asked to help carry out this plan and thus provide at once to put the Broadway work on a firm foundation.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, September 15, 1904, page 322]

1902
Louisville, Broadway Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Clerk of the Session and Post Office: John W. Yenowine, Louisville, Ky
Minister in Charge: W. A. Shell
Louisville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1902, page 129a]

1903
Louisville, Broadway Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Clerk of the Session and Post Office: John W. Yenowine, Louisville, Ky
Minister in Charge: T. N. Williams
Louisville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1903, page 115a]

1904
Louisville, Broadway Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Clerk of the Session and Post Office: John W. Yenowine, Louisville, Ky
Minister in Charge: T. N. Williams
Louisville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1904, page 98a]

1905
Louisville, Broadway Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Clerk of the Session and Post Office: J. W. Yenawine, 1532 22d St. Louisville, Ky
Minister in Charge: T. N. Williams
Louisville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1905, page 79a]

1906
Louisville, Broadway Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Clerk of the Session and Post Office: J. W. Yenawine, Louisville, Ky
Minister in Charge: T. N. Williams
Louisville Presbytery
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1906, page 70a]