This collection contains the records of the First Christian Church of Lawrence, Kansas, including financial records, service bulletins, administrative records, newsletters and pamphlets, and photographs.

Typescript copy with manuscript corrections of a sermon delivered by the Rev. Benton Roy Hanan at the First Christian Church, Lawrence, Kansas, January 15, 1961.

Brought to Kansas in his early childhood, Clarence Birch became a teacher in Kansas rural schools, Haskell Institute, and the Lawrence public schools. He served as superintendent of the Lawrence Public School System from 1931 to 1939. He later wrote "Toward Education Per Aspera, A Manuscript Autobiography of a Kansas Educator" in 1966.