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The Alabama Baptist is a weekly newspaper that was first published on February 4, 1843, initially an independent newspaper but supported by Baptist leaders in the state. It was purchased by the Alabama Baptist State Convention in 1919, and now has a circulation of 100,000. The newspaper is based in Birmingham, Alabama [25]
East Mississippi State Baptist Convention; General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, Inc. [29] Mid-South Churches Cooperative Conference (Baptist) State Convention [30] Mississippi General Missionary Baptist State Convention; New Educational State Convention of Mississippi; North Mississippi Baptist Education Convention [31]
The Alabama convention, along with Baptist conventions in other southern states, formed the Southern Baptist Convention after the breakup over the legality of slavery. [7] Considered by Southern Baptists in Alabama as one of the most important churches during the early years of statehood is the Siloam Baptist Church in Marion. The congregation ...
Convention Name Alabama: Alabama Baptist Convention: Alaska: Alaska Baptist Convention: Arizona: Arizona Southern Baptist Convention: Arkansas: Arkansas Baptist State Convention: California: California Southern Baptist Convention: Colorado: Colorado Baptist General Convention: North Dakota: Dakota Baptist Convention: South Dakota: Florida ...
The Alabama Baptist is a weekly newspaper. [1] It is the largest state Baptist paper in circulation. It is an entity of the Alabama Baptist State Convention owned by The Alabama Baptist, Inc., under leadership of a board of directors approved by messengers to the Alabama Baptist State Convention.
Trustee fights over removing presidents in closed-door deliberations at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1994, and the North American Mission Board in 2006 and 2009 bred confusion ...
Canaan Baptist Church is a Baptist church located in Bessemer, Alabama. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA . Built in 1961, it had a congregation active in the Civil Rights Movement of the 20th century and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
Hosea Holcombe (1780–1841) - Historian and President of the Alabama Baptist State Convention from 1833 to 1838; Alma Hunt - Executive secretary of the Woman's Missionary Union; H. Dale Jackson (1930–2003) - Pastor and ethicist; William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862) - First president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851