The First Baptist Church

## The Baptist Church

The project began in late April. Paul had the idea but needed a location. After countless minutes of searching, help came, in the form of a Rocket. RealRocket, a kind Specterium player who offered his assistance. At this time, Paul did not know the seed. So, Rocket, who possessed this information, flew bravely though is the creative seed world, to discover the perfect location. Once the location was decided upon, the journey began. At this time, Paul was using Wurst. Wurst was a good deal of fun, but it lacked the travel capabilities of WWE or other clients. So, Paul made the entire journey on foot (rather than boat), it took him the better part of forty-five minutes.

Upon arriving at the site, Paul built a small base and set the corner stone of the Church. It was here, that he coined the classic statement, "upon this block of obsidian, I will build my Church." Shortly after Paul's arrival, Harrison began his journey. Harrison would pave the way for a couple of others, by building a 1x2 tunnel through the depths of the Nether. Fauxreel420 accompanied Harrison. Throughout the tunnel digging many dangers were encountered, in the form of hidden Lava pools. Fauxreel may have died in the lava at one point. Once everyone had arrived, the digging began. A valley, that was somewhat flat was turned into an endless plane of pure flatness, through hours of digging. At this point, the benevolent admin of this wiki, Michi Games, visited the site. He brought a gift of cobble which he kindly bestowed upon the builders. Additionally, he helped with some of the building. Once the digging was complete, Fauxreel decided to begin work on a Statue of the Redeemer, right next to the church. Mo7ang came to help with this statue as well. Meanwhile, Harrison and Paul continued to work on the Church, laying the foundation, and adding carpet.

On June second, the Church began baptizing. The first player to be baptized was Michi games on his alt Yangze\_00. Many others were soon to follow. This base started to become an entire group: The Church.

In mid-June, Paul himself became mostly inactive, the church however kept being build, but it started to look more and more like an actual base, and less like what was originally intended. There were also multiple conflicts at the base, eventhough it was meant to be a place of peace.

In mid to late May, the church got griefed by an unknown player, speculated by many to be v6q\_(not v6q) who had said before he wanted to grief it. He also built a Kaaba (the large black box which is holy in the muslim religion) at the church. Some payers like Michi games wanted the church to be rebuild, but the deacons of the group decided that a new church was going to be built, but with private coordinates to prevent players who wanted to come only to grief. Shortly after the founding of the second church, PowTeaPea and soidzoid (both members of the church at the time) returned to grief the build to not allow anyone wanting to grief the prestige of doing so. After the second church was finally griefed, the group became inactive. As of July, 2021, the First Baptist Church is in terrible condition. There are a few small lavacasts and all the builds have been damaged. The kaaba is mostly intact with a few holes in the build. The overworld coords are around -69420 , 42069.

## A message from Paul

There has been many an upturned nose, and many a 'smh' to the fact that the builders are using the popular schematic tool, Litematica. However, in the words of Paul, "The people of Specterium are so completely beautiful in all their ways. I wish to bring them something almost as beautiful. I know I am a fallible sinner, as are we all. Yet, how can one such as myself bring something worthy of Specterium to its magnificent inhabitants? The answer, my friends, is Litematica. It allows me to build the work of one who may be descended from our Holy Mother Mary herself, thereby, not defiling Specterium with my own poor workmanship, but rather, humbly presenting to Specterium, a beautiful Church, I pray, worthy of her beautiful people."