Akron Baptist Temple sold its seven-building site to The Word Church in 2018 and has since rebranded itself as Connect Church. The Word Church put the property up for sale a year later.

Billington quit Goodyear and organized Akron Baptist Temple on Easter 1935 with more than 80 charter members. Months later, over 500 people belonged. In 1937, they built a $60,000 church near Rimer.

Akron Baptist Temple sold its seven-building site to The Word Church in 2018 and has since rebranded itself as Connect Church. The Word Church put the property up for sale a year later.

Akron's plan to level the site of one of the country's first megachurches is moving full speed ahead. The former Akron Baptist Temple campus, most recently known as The Word Church, is just a few ...