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David Lyon Bartlett (February 16, 1941 – October 12, 2017) was the J. Edward and Ruth Cox Lantz Professor Emeritus of Christian Communication at Yale Divinity School, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary, and an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Eugene Monroe Bartlett Sr., was born on December 24, 1885, in Waynesville, Missouri. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He grew up in Sebastian County, Arkansas . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He attended the Hall-Moody Institute in Martin, Tennessee and graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri .
The temple, in the suburb of Bartlett, was dedicated on April 23, 2000. The next month, on May 21, 2000, the Nashville Tennessee Temple, in the suburb of Franklin, was dedicated. On April 3, 2022, church president Russell M. Nelson announced plans to build a temple in the Knoxville area. The exact location has not yet been announced.
Ground was broken for the Memphis Tennessee Temple on January 16, 1999. The temple serves more than 20,000 members in Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Missouri. [3] On April 23, 2000, James E. Faust dedicated the building for its religious use.
In 1950, a second campus was opened in Memphis, and in 1954 one followed in Chattanooga. By the 1950s, most of the children in residence were from homes in crisis, not orphans, so board members decided in 1953 to rename the ministry to more accurately reflect its work—Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. The TBCH does not accept government ...
The Bartlett Recreation Center is a 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m 2) facility that was completed in August 2000. [17] The recreation center is located at 7700 Flaherty Place directly behind the Bartlett Police Station.
General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. (formerly Church of the Full Gospel, Inc.) 2,200 31 1935 [44] General Six-Principle Baptists: 175 7 1653 [45] Independent Baptist Church of America: 25 2 1927 [46] Independent Baptist Fellowship International: 540 1984 [36] Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America: 250 0 1990 [36]
Bellevue Baptist was founded in 1903 by Central Baptist Church as a mission church on the outskirts of Memphis. With a small $1,000 gift from member Fannie Jobe, Pastor Thomas Potts led the congregation to build a one-room stone chapel at the corner of Bellevue and Erskine Avenues.