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William Jonathan Northen (July 9, 1835 – March 25, 1913), was the 54th Governor of Georgia from 1890 to 1894, as well as a leading Baptist minister. Northen was president of the Georgia Baptist Convention from 1892 to 1910, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1899 to 1901. [1]
The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972. Tracing its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention ...
May C. Jones (born November 5, 1842 – ?) was a trailblazing Baptist minister and the first woman to be ordained in the Northern Baptist Convention. Her ordination in 1882 marked a significant milestone in the history of women in ministry, paving the way for future generations.
Jasper Cortenus Massee (November 1871 – March 27, 1965 [1]) was a leading fundamentalist Baptist in the early 20th century. As a leader of the more moderate fundamentalist Baptists in the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC), his efforts towards reconciliation contributed to compromises that ensured its continued existence as a cohesive Christian denomination.
Elder Daniel Parker. Baptists first appeared in North America in the early 17th century. [5] Through the influence of the Philadelphia Baptist Association (org. 1707), the influx of members to the churches from the Great Awakenings, and the union of the disparate Regular and Separate Baptists, by the early 19th century Baptists would become an important American denomination.
The Georgia Baptist Mission Board is an association of Baptist churches in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention . Formed in 1822, it was one of the original nine state conventions to send delegates to the first Southern Baptist Convention , organized in 1845.
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]
In 1921, Montgomery was the first woman to be elected president of the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC), and of any religious denomination in the United States. [4] As president of the Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, she had given their gift of more than US$450,000 to the NBC. She was elected after having demonstrated her ...