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The manuscript collection has material relating to William Carey, C. H. Spurgeon, Joshua and Hannah Marshman, William Ward, E. A. Payne, and J. H. Rushbrook, and prominent Baptist families. The Angus incorporates the former libraries and archives of: The Baptist Missionary Society (founded in 1792) The Baptist Union of Great Britain (founded in ...
The Mountain Union Association, formed in 1867 at Silas Creek church near Lansing, North Carolina, was the first "Union" Baptist association. The Mountain Union Association was instrumental in helping former slaves organize the New Covenant Association of Wilkes County in 1868. This distinction, at least in name, has persisted in the ...
General Baptists and Particular Baptists work was united in the Baptist Union in 1891. [4] The Baptist Historical Society was founded in 1908. In 1922, Edith Gates became the first woman ordained pastor in the Convention. [5] In 2013 Lynn Green was elected, with no votes against, as the first female General Secretary of the Baptist Union of ...
The Baptist Union of Jamaica dates back to 1782 when George Liele, a formerly-enslaved man from Atlanta, Georgia, came to Jamaica and began preaching in Kingston. [1] In 1814, the Baptist Missionary Society, a British organization, sent its first missionary to the island to open a school in Falmouth in Trelawny Parish, for the children of slaves. [2]
The Baptist Union of Zambia has its origins in a South African mission of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa in 1924 [1] It is officially founded in 1975. [2] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 1,000 churches and 220,000 members.
Henry McNeal Turner was born free in 1834 in Newberry, South Carolina, to Sarah Greer and Hardy Turner, who were both of mixed African-European ancestry.Some sources say he was born in Abbeville, South Carolina. [2]
The Baptist Union was founded in 1877 by four English-speaking churches and one German-speaking church. [2] The South African Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1892. [3] Black Baptist churches united to form the Bantu Baptist Church in 1927, under the auspices of the South African Baptist Missionary Society.