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George Liele (also spelled Lisle or Leile, c. 1750–1820) was an African American and emancipated slave who became the founding pastor of First Bryan Baptist Church and First African Baptist Church, in Savannah, Georgia . He later would become a missionary to Jamaica. Liele was born into slavery in Virginia in 1752, but was taken to Georgia.
Impressed with Liele's conversion, George, his wife, and eight others were baptized at Silver Bluff. In 1775, George and eight other enslaved people formed one of the first African-American Baptist congregations in the United States. [6] A somewhat different account of George during these years is presented by Mark A. Noll, American church ...
In 1888 at the Georgia Convention, claims were examined as to primacy of First African Baptist of Savannah and the First Bryan Baptist Church. The convention declared that First African Baptist of Savannah was the banner church, due largely to Marshall's leadership during the difficult years of the 1830s, which held his congregation together ...
On June 1, 1790, with 27 pounds of sterling, he bought property from Thomas Gibbons that became a place for a new church. William Bryan and James Whitfield bought land for Bryan and his family to live on. In 1805, the first African Baptist church, Savannah Baptist church, and Newington Baptist Church became the Savannah River Baptist Association.
The first structure was erected there in 1794. By 1800 the congregation was large enough to split: those at Bryan Street took the name of First African Baptist Church, and Second and Third African Baptist churches were also established. [2] The current sanctuary of First Bryan Baptist Church was constructed in 1873.
The Triennial Convention (so-called because it met every three years) was the first national Baptist denomination in the United States.Officially named the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions, it was formed in 1814 to advance missionary work and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The First African Baptist Church of Savannah is one of the oldest Black Baptist congregations in the United States. The First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia was founded in 1774. [12] Before the American Revolution about 494 Baptist congregations existed in the United States. [13]
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...