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Steve Gaines told his congregation about his diagnosis during Sunday worship services. He will be seeking treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Steve Gaines, senior pastor at Bellevue Baptist ...
John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor who has served as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [1] He resigned as senior pastor on September 22. 2024, to pursue an itinerant preaching ministry at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention and has ...
Steve Gaines, who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016-18, first accepted the pastorate at Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 by freedmen and free people of color. It was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879, for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame building.
Fred Swank was the legendary pastor of Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. [18] Gaines was the only Southwestern Seminary graduate to receive both awards. He was ordained to the ministry in 1980 by his hometown church First Baptist Church of Dyersburg, Tennessee. He pastored churches in Texas and in west Tennessee before becoming ...
Dexter King was named after the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father served as pastor in the 1950s. Dexter King was just 7 years old when his father was ...
Dr. Vernon Johns (April 22, 1892 – June 11, 1965) was an American minister based in the South and a pioneer in the civil rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dexter King was named after Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father was pastor in the 1950s. Dexter King's mother, Coretta Scott King, died in 2006, followed by his ...