Jul 24, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In November 1681, the Baptist Church in Boston granted a letter of recommendation and approval to William Screven “to exercise his gifts in ye place where he lives or else where as the providence of God may cast him.” Well, in the providence of God, eventually...
Jul 17, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alfred Taylor was born on this day in 1808 in Kentucky. He was born again in the autumn of 1829 after which he joined the Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Butler County.After the Lord saved Alfred, he couldn’t be kept from preaching. Having little general education, it...
Jul 9, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Algerius was a young man of Naples, so he was raised amidst Catholicism. While in school he was befriended by another student who spoke of a personal knowledge and relationship with Jesus Christ. He spoke boldly of his faith, stirring a desire in Algerius to study...
Jul 2, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
For those of you who remember what a newspaper is, imagine opening the paper one day to read the following announcement: “For the promotion of morality and the prosperity of the Redeemer’s Kingdom in this part of the world, I desire to constitute a regular...
Jun 26, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Milo Jewett was the son of a successful medical doctor. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1828, practicing law, which he promptly left in order to study at Andover Seminary. From there he went to Marietta College, in Ohio, where he became a professor. He also became...
Jun 18, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
George Pleasant Bostick was the fifth son of fifteen children. Three of those children served the Lord for a total of 110 years in China. George was converted to Christ at an early age and after his baptism joined Floyd’s Creek Baptist Church in North Carolina. ...
Jun 11, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Daniel Fristoe was born again during the days when there was much persecution against the preaching of the gospel in Northern Virginia. Several years after his conversion, on this day in 1771, he was ordained to the ministry. Perhaps as a prophecy of his future...
Jun 4, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1835 Joseph Morrow was born into the family of an itinerant Methodist preacher. At the age of nineteen, Joseph was converted to Christ and joined the Green Fork Baptist Church, south of Augusta, Georgia. After attending Mercer University he became a...
May 28, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1969 Judy Lynn Price said “I do,” when asked if she wanted to marry David Oldfield Also on this day in 1784, John Bryce was born in Goochland County, Virginia. He was raised in the Episcopal denomination, but when he was twenty-one, under the preaching...
May 21, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
In 1786 James Lemen, with his wife and family, along and several others, settled in Illinois. A few weeks later Mrs. Lemen’s sister and her husband were killed by Indians and their two children were taken to Wisconsin, where one died and the other was eventually...
May 14, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Charles Luther was born on this day in 1847. Luther was a Baptist even before his conversion. That is the church in which he was raised. But just because someone is a professing Christian that doesn’t make him one. Charles was later born again just prior to, or...
May 7, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Alfred Bennet was born in 1780. Twenty years later he was born again and joined the Baptist church of Hampton, Connecticut. After his marriage to the deacon’s daughter, the young couple moved to the unbroken wilderness of central New York, where Alfred began his...
Apr 30, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Berry Meachum was born on this day in 1789 in Virginia. He was a slave, but also a Baptist preacher. Given the opportunity he worked hard and eventually purchased his freedom. Saving his income, he then purchased the freedom of his father, who also was a...
Apr 23, 2026 | Lessons on Bible Trivia, This Sunday in Baptist History
“Uncle” Harry was a slave to Thomas L. Cowan. On one occasion Mr. Cowan was present for a funeral where Uncle Harry was to preach. He was tremendously impressed with the man’s understanding of the scriptures, which led him to ask his lawyer to draw up some legal...
Apr 16, 2026 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Cape May is a community at the most southerly point in New Jersey – on the north side of the mouth of Delaware Bay. Ships headed toward Philadelphia, which for a time was a more important port than New York, all passed by Cape May. Today that county is about half...
