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Litton began his career as a pastor at churches in Arizona and Texas.Since 1994, he has served as the pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama. [6] He was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in June 2021 on the second ballot with 52 percent of the vote and a margin of 556 votes.
Saraland is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Mobile. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 16,171, [ 2 ] up from 13,405 at the 2010 census. Saraland, part of the Mobile metropolitan area , is the third largest city in Mobile County.
In 1790 Mills moved south to the vicinity of the Bayou Sarah and in partnership with Christopher Strong Stewart opened a trading post on the batture. [3] Stewart later moved to Mobile, Spanish West Florida, where he died in 1809. [3] John James Aububon came to Bayou Sara in 1821 and began the nature studies that became the Birds of America. [4]
The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship was established by Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr. in 1994 within New Orleans, Louisiana, [2] though it began as a movement within the National Baptist Convention, USA in 1992. [5] From 25,000 to 30,000 attended the first conference of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship in 1994. [9]
This location was the site of the first Baptist church in the state which was organized west of the Mississippi River. [1] On November 13, 1812, Calvary Baptist church named Joseph Willis, an African American missionary as pastor. [2] He had been a preacher to the Opelousa Indians and other ethnic groups of the district.
Bayou Rouge Baptist Church is a historic church located at the corner of Church Street and Barron Lane in Evergreen, Louisiana. Built in 1859, the frame, 5 bay basilican plan church with a semihexagonal chancel is a classic example of a Greek Revival country church, which could be found in rural parishes from the 1830s to the Civil War .
Bayou Corne in Louisiana, October 2010. In usage in the Southern United States, a bayou (/ ˈ b aɪ. uː, ˈ b aɪ. oʊ /) [1] is a body of water typically found in a flat, low-lying area. It may refer to an extremely slow-moving stream, river (often with a poorly defined shoreline), marshy lake, wetland, or creek.
The Old Regular Baptist Churches of Jesus Christ in the United States, along with the Regular Primitive Baptists, trace their history to churches that sprang up in the American Colonies. These early churches had been organized as Regular Baptist Churches and Separate Baptist Churches in Christ, and were found from New England to Georgia.