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Dr. Ben Smith, Lakeland's third pastor, was called in December 1974 and retired in 2007. Lakeland has arguably had its greatest success since 1974, which can be attributed equally to Dr. Smith's leadership and to Lewisville's growth from rural farming community to Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex suburb.
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The North Texas Baptist Association (NTBA) is an association of conservative evangelical Christian churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area. NTBA is currently headquartered in Lewisville, Texas on the campus of Lakeland Baptist Church , and has friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and SBTC.
George Beauchamp Vick (1901–1975), known as G. B. Vick, or G. Beauchamp Vick, was pastor of Temple Baptist Church of Detroit, Michigan, from 1950 to the 1970s. J. Frank Norris, pastor of Temple Baptist from 1934 to 1950, appointed Vick in 1935 to help him manage the church, as Norris himself traveled between it and First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 1984 he became the first vice-president of Progressive National Baptist Convention, and became president in 1986. [4] In 1992 he joined the American Baptist Seminary of the West as a professor of Christian Ministries. He retired from the Allen Temple Baptist Church in 2009 and was succeeded by his son, Rev. James Alfred Smith Jr.
Billington quit Goodyear and organized Akron Baptist Temple on Easter 1935 with more than 80 charter members. Months later, over 500 people belonged. In 1937, they built a $60,000 church near Rimer.
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This church, and those churches of like faith that followed, remained aloof from the majority of Baptists in Texas. Pilgrim Church is the oldest Baptist church in Texas, and survives today as a Primitive Baptist church near Elkhart, TX. [5] The first missionary Baptist church in Texas was organized at Washington-on-the-Brazos by Z. N. Morrell in