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The idea for the hospital was formed at a Shelby County Baptist Association meeting in 1906 when Dr. H.P. Hurt of the Bellevue Baptist Church proposed a new Baptist-sponsored hospital. In 1914, the hospital was in debt and near closure due to a lack of patients. The hospitals superintendent A.E. Jennings raised $1 million to save the hospital.
Reverend Oris Lee Mays (April 7, 1935 – April 21, 1996) [1] was an American preacher, gospel singer and songwriter. Born in Lambert, Mississippi, he came to Memphis, Tennessee as a teen and graduated from Melrose High School. He studied theology at J. L. Campbell School of Religion and Brewster Seminary.
John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor who has served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [1] He resigned as senior pastor on September 22. 2024, to pursue an itinerant preaching ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention and has ...
This hospital, built in 1979, is now the flagship of Baptist Memorial Health Care since the closure of the Madison Campus in the Medical District, Memphis in 2000, which dated from 1912. [2] Baptist Memorial Health Care operates 22 Hospitals and numerous clinics in the three states surrounding the Memphis area. [ 3 ]
The Orpheum's summer movie series was launched in 1984 as a way to show off and encourage Memphians to visit the newly restored and reopened theater.
Dr. William Herbert Brewster, Sr. (July 2, 1897 – October 15, 1987) was a 20th century Renaissance man born just outside Memphis, Tennessee.He was a Baptist minister by trade as well as a crucial figure in African American history who made a lasting national impact as a poet, playwright, gospel music composer, orator and civil rights leader.
He made an appearance in Fresno couple times. Anthony Galaviz. June 18, 2024 at 8:00 PM ... “Willie Mays, 1931-2024,” read on the scoreboard. In a post, the Grizzlies wrote Thank you, Willie ...
Mays, with his back to the plate, gets under a 450-foot blast off the bat of Cleveland Indians first baseman Vic Wertz to pull the ball down in front of the bleachers wall in the eighth inning of ...