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The water tower of Cedarville University is a landmark on the university campus in Cedarville, Ohio. First erected in 1983, [ 50 ] the water tower underwent a $55,000 renovation in 2015. [ 51 ] The water tower is located behind Cedarville's athletic center and bears the school's mascot , a yellow jacket named Stinger, along with the university ...
In the county's early years, all of its numerous Baptist churches were found in the countryside, so in 1840 the Ohio Baptist Convention began to make efforts to plant churches in the villages. [ 4 ] : 476 One such society arose in Mechanicsburg in the same year; known as Goshen Baptist Church for its first seven years, [ 4 ] : 484 the church ...
This is a list of colleges and universities operated or sponsored by Baptist organizations. Many of these organizations are members of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU), which has 47 member schools in 16 states, including 44 colleges and universities, 2 Bible schools, and 1 theological seminary.
Columbia was founded in 1788 on the Little Miami River and predates Losantiville (which became Cincinnati) by a month. [2] The first Protestant church (Baptist) in the Northwest Territory was erected in Columbia. [3] The Cincinnati area's first school opened here in 1790.
Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries.
Akron Baptist Temple was established by Dallas F. Billington, a Kentucky native who moved to Akron in 1925. Billington, born in 1903, was the son of a Kentucky tobacco farmer. A Goodyear Tire employee, Billington studied theology at a Baptist correspondence school while working at a shoe factory in Paducah, Kentucky. Prior to the establishment ...
B'nai Israel of Lancaster about 1990, Fairfield County Heritage Quarterly, Fall 2018. Reid started documenting Lancaster's Jewish history for a history class at Capital University in 2017, where ...
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 ...