Aug 4, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Jesse Babcock Worden was born in 1787. He was the ninth of nine children. Various circumstances united in such a way that Jesse was raised totally illiterate. When he was twelve, he did not even know the alphabet. However at about that time he became burdened about...
Jul 27, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Thomas Patient was born in England. After his education at one the nation’s most renowned schools, he became a Congregational minister, before emigrating to America. Once over here, he came into contact with some Baptists, which caused him to reexamine the ordinances....
Jul 22, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Four and a half centuries ago, in the Dutch city of Nijmegen (Ni-may-hen) lived Jan Block. His family had become wealthy through the linen industry, and Jan lived a life of indolence and sin. One of his friends was Symon van Maren, who had moved to Nijmegen...
Jul 13, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Prior to the establishment of religious liberty in this country, Baptists were not the only people persecuted for their faith. Several Quakers were put to death in Massachusetts and the colonies of Plymouth and Connecticut also enacted severe laws against them. But...
Jun 29, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Orison Allan and his wife were the first known Baptists in the territory of Michigan, settling in the wilderness where Pontiac is now located. Nine years later, on this day (July 2) in 1827, Henry Davis, a young graduate of Hamilton Theological Institute, arrived to...
Jun 23, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
I don’t usually use 20th century material in these historical notes, but I’m going to make an exception today. On this day in 1928, Nikita Isaevitch Voronin made the following public statement: “During the sixty years of its existence in Russia our brotherhood...
Jun 15, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1781, the Severns Valley Baptist Church was founded in what is now Elizabethtown, Kentucky, south of Louisville. It may have been the first Baptist church in Kentucky. At the time, the area was dense and unexplored forest, inhabited by only a few...
Jun 8, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hervey Jenks was born into a respectable, religious family, but his godly parents were not able to convince their son of his need of Christ. He entered Brown University, the Baptist’s premier school at the time, with the intention of becoming a lawyer. While...
Jun 2, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1768, that the sheriff of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, along with three magistrates, stood in the yard before a Baptist meetinghouse, seizing John Waller, Lewis Craig, James Reed, and William Mash. The preachers were ordered to appear in court...
May 27, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
On this day in 1789, Andrew Broadus, a nineteen-year-old believer in Christ, was immersed and received into the membership of the Upper King and Queen Baptist Church in Caroline County, Virginia. He had been raised in the Episcopal church and forbidden by his father...
May 15, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Hiram Read, was born in Jewett City, Connecticut in 1819. His parents had wealth, some of which they invested in their son’s education. While a student at Hamilton College the Lord redeemed him, and Hiram was baptized into the Baptist church in Oswego, New York. He...
May 11, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
John Leland was born on this day (May 14) in 1754, about 40 miles west of Boston. In time the Lord saved his soul and called him into the ministry. That ministry took him south into Virginia, where he was invaluable in guiding some of the founders of this country in...
May 4, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
To the best of my knowledge the first Baptist church to be composed mostly of black members was the First African Baptist church of Savannah, organized by Abraham Marshall and Jesse Peter in 1788. Its first pastor was the former slave, George Lisle. Soon thereafter,...
Apr 27, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
It was on this day in 1823 that George Boardman and his wife were sent to Burma as missionaries. Working with other missionaries, God blessed their work, particularly amongst the Karen tribe. By 1910 there were 774 Karen Baptist churches and more than 50,000 members....
Apr 20, 2017 | This Sunday in Baptist History
Early in 1529, the council of the Archbishop of Cologne presented a special report to Charles V, Emperor of the “Holy” Roman Empire. It said in part that the Anabaptists call themselves “true Christians,” and that they had existed for more than...
