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Steven Lee Anderson (born July 24, 1981) is an American preacher and founder of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement. He is pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. He has advocated for the death penalty for homosexuals, and prayed for the deaths of former U.S. president Barack Obama and Caitlyn Jenner.
Reverend Richard Sneethen, Anderson's business partner and the first minister of the Central Baptist Church. Anderson was the church's second minister. Anderson was a minister for the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis until he resigned in June 1846. With 20 others, he founded the Central Baptist Church in August 1846. [14] [c] Rev ...
The church describes itself as "an old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible-only, soul-winning Baptist church." [1] Members of the church meet in an office space that is located inside a strip mall. [1] [2] Anderson established the church in December 2005 and remains its pastor.
Anderson, the Eastland pastor ... Glenn Coram, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church in Metropolis, said he also opposed efforts to portray the library as a site of spiritual warfare. Glenn Coram ...
Akron Baptist Temple sold the church and its 29 acres in June 2018 for $1.5 million to The Word Church. Overextended and underattended, The Word put a $3.9 million for-sale sign on the location up ...
Akron's plan to level the site of one of the country's first megachurches is moving full speed ahead. The former Akron Baptist Temple campus, most recently known as The Word Church, is just a few ...
Anderson, Fannin and Shelley traded accusations of financial wrongdoing and running a cult. Fannin was later ejected as the lead preacher of SBC-Jax. [7] In 2021, the NIFB-affiliated First Works Baptist Church in El Monte, California was bombed with an improvised explosive device. The explosion caused property damage but no injuries or deaths.
In 1984 he became the first vice-president of Progressive National Baptist Convention, and became president in 1986. [4] In 1992 he joined the American Baptist Seminary of the West as a professor of Christian Ministries. He retired from the Allen Temple Baptist Church in 2009 and was succeeded by his son, Rev. James Alfred Smith Jr.