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Joseph Endom Jones (October 15, 1852–October 14, 1922) was an American Baptist minister and professor at the Richmond Theological Seminary and Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia from 1876 to 1922. He was a major leader in the Baptist Church among blacks in Virginia. His son, Eugene Kinckle Jones, was a leader in the National ...
After The Baptist Companion from Portsmouth, Virginia stopped publication, The Pilot was used as an organ during the Virginia Baptist State Convention. [1] [4] He was the pastor at one of the largest congregations, at the First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia. [5] In 1890, he founded Tabernacle Baptist Church in Petersburg. [6]
Smith was former president (2009–2012) of the Virginia Baptist State Convention (VBSC), which was organized in 1867 and counts about 700 member churches. [10] VBSC is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. He was also a past president of Richmond Virginia Seminary, having served from 2005 to 2008. [11] [12]
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 BGAV joined the Baptist World Alliance in 2004 after the Southern Baptist Convention pulled out of the alliance. [6] At the time, BGAV Executive Director John V. Upton, Jr., said, "Virginia Baptists have been a part of the BWA since its beginning in 1905. Our membership up to this point had been through the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).
The school was founded in 1886 and incorporated in 1888 by the Virginia Baptist State Convention as the coeducational "Lynchburg Baptist Seminary". Classes were first held in 1890 under the name Virginia Seminary. [4] With the offering of a collegiate program in 1900, the name was again changed, to Virginia Theological Seminary and College.
It is supportive of the national Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It was formed in 1993 when conservative Virginia Baptists across the state founded the SBCV fellowship. On September 16, 1996, messengers that met at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, voted for the fellowship to become a new Southern Baptist state convention.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Rev. Leonard Black was the Vice President of the Virginia Baptist State Convention in 1872, living in Norfolk.