 First Presbyterian minister Joseph Glass Venable, who served the church from 1924 until his death in 1928, was the first minister to preach a worship service on a local radio station.A congregation history states that the program series he initiated "is believed to be the longest continuing radio program in the United States".One of his successors, Ben Haden, who served First Presbyterian from 1967 to 1999, was later to inaugurate the long-running radio ministry "Changed Lives" on WFLI in Chattanooga.