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Litton began his career as a pastor at churches in Arizona and Texas.Since 1994, he has served as the pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama. [6] He was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in June 2021 on the second ballot with 52 percent of the vote and a margin of 556 votes.
Saraland is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 16,171, [ 2 ] up from 13,405 at the 2010 census. Saraland, part of the Mobile metropolitan area , is the third largest city in Mobile County.
In 1790 Mills moved south to the vicinity of the Bayou Sarah and in partnership with Christopher Strong Stewart opened a trading post on the batture. [3] Stewart later moved to Mobile, Spanish West Florida, where he died in 1809. [3] John James Aububon came to Bayou Sara in 1821 and began the nature studies that became the Birds of America. [4]
Bayou Rouge Baptist Church is a historic church located at the corner of Church Street and Barron Lane in Evergreen, Louisiana. Built in 1859, the frame, 5 bay basilican plan church with a semihexagonal chancel is a classic example of a Greek Revival country church, which could be found in rural parishes from the 1830s to the Civil War .
In recent years, community efforts have focused on restoration and preservation of the town's historic homes. St. Francisville is a popular tourist destination, with a number of restored historic plantations open for tours, including Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site, Audubon State Historic Site, Butler Greenwood Plantation, the Myrtles, and the Cottage Plantation, as well as several ...
This location was the site of the first Baptist church in the state which was organized west of the Mississippi River. [1] On November 13, 1812, Calvary Baptist church named Joseph Willis, an African American missionary as pastor. [2] He had been a preacher to the Opelousa Indians and other ethnic groups of the district.
Bayou Corne in Louisiana, October 2010. In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou (/ ˈ b aɪ. uː, ˈ b aɪ. oʊ /) [1] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek.
Bayou Chene was a community settled in the 1830s, located approximately 40 miles north of Morgan City.The U.S. post office was established there in 1858. The settlers there ran a church, a school, a merchandise store and the post office, which were all located on the bayou.