First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway, celebrates 150 years Sunday with a number of activities.

The church will have a special worship service at 11 a.m. to celebrate its founding, which was April 5, 1858. It also will have a “birthday party” for children and a catered, reservations-only dinner following services. Dinner attendees will receive a commemorative book chronicling the church’s history.

The church’s 19 charter members began meeting in various places in 1858 before constructing the church’s first building at present-day Ninth and Vermont streets (pictured above). Two additional churches were built on that site – one because of overcrowding, the other because of fire – before the church relocated to its present-day home in 1968.

The Rev. Kent Winters-Hazleton plans to preach Sunday about using the “past as a prelude.”

“There is a lot of wonderful, rich history here,” he says. “It has been fascinating.”