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George Beauchamp Vick (1901–1975), known as G. B. Vick, or G. Beauchamp Vick, was pastor of Temple Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, from 1950 to the 1970s. J. Frank Norris, pastor of Temple Baptist from 1934 to 1950, appointed Vick in 1935 to help him manage the church, as Norris himself traveled between it and First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
The First Baptist Church of Grand Blanc is a rectangular plan gable end structure, three bays wide. The front facade has a central double door entrance flanked with pilasters. and topped by a full entablature. On either side are stained glass windows; more windows line the side facades. The church is topped with an octagonal belfry. [3]
It was the birthplace to Grand Rapids Baptist College, a predecessor to what is now called Cornerstone University, and served as its home from 1941 to 1964. The church moved to Michigan Street in the 1980s, purchasing a school building and adding on to it. In 2001, after struggling with declining membership, the church called Pastor Kenton Young.
The Baptist Bible Union (BBU) of 1923 was the forerunner to the GARBC. The final meeting of the BBU in 1932 in Chicago was the first meeting of the GARBC. [1] The Association publishes Regular Baptist Press, a church education curriculum and the association's bimonthly magazine, the Baptist Bulletin. In 2018, the GARBC had over 1,200 member ...
Third Baptist Church was established in 1850, and moved to its current location at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Washington Avenue in 1885. Third Baptist, one of the nation's historic churches, has for 150 years avoided strict denominationalism, and relies on the Baptist distinctives of: Autonomy of the Local Church; Soul Competency of the ...
The roots of Fountain Street Church date to 1824 when the region's original Baptist mission established itself to convert the Ottawa Native Americans. A lengthy history of institutional squabbles between themselves and other area Baptists eventually culminated in the two factions' reunion in 1869 to create Fountain Street Baptist Church (so named for the building they erected on the east side ...
Grandview Park Baptist School was a prominent Baptist Christian school situated on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa on East 33rd Ave. Offering a traditional educational approach, it served as a private institution deeply connected to the adjacent Grandview Park Baptist Church
The church figured in the region's involvement in the American Revolutionary War. Like most of his parishioners, Reverend David Jones was an ardent Patriot and served as a Continental Army chaplain. British troops under General William Howe plundered the church and parsonage in September 1776, carrying off clothing, dishware, tools, and a Bible.