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The Alabama Baptist is a weekly newspaper that was first published on February 4, 1843, initially an independent newspaper but supported by Baptist leaders in the state. It was purchased by the Alabama Baptist State Convention in 1919, and now has a circulation of 100,000. The newspaper is based in Birmingham, Alabama [25]
Baptist World Mission (BWM) is an independent, Baptist missionary agency located at 201 Gordon Drive SW in Decatur, Alabama; [1] it also has a center in New Brunswick, Canada. BWM was established in 1961 in Chicago. [2] In 2021, they had a recorded income of approximately $260,000. [3]
William H. McAlpine (June 1847 - November 3, 1905) was a Baptist minister and educator in Alabama. He was a founder and the second president of Selma University. He was a leader in the Baptist church and a founder and president of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention. Later in his life he was Dean of the Theological Department at Selma.
Baptist International Missions, Incorporated (BIMI) is a missions organization that provides aid to Independent Baptist missionaries. BIMI was founded in 1917 by Anton and Viola Andersen. [ 1 ]
James A. Ranaldson (1789–1849) - Minister, founder of the Alabama Baptist Convention, missionary, and church founder. Bronson Ray (1868–1934) - Southern Baptist minister who would then become the Executive Secretary of the present day International Mission Board; Archibald Thomas Robertson (1863–1934) - Biblical scholar
1803 United States Mission to the Cherokees; 1806 Western Missionary Society for Indians; 1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; 1814 American Baptist Missionary Union (later known as American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and then American Baptist International Ministries) c. 1818 Female Missionary Society [4]
In the late 1800s, the society helped fund the Swedish Baptist conference's new seminary, Bethel Seminary, in Stockholm. [4] It was renamed American Baptist Missionary Union in 1845, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1910, and American Board of International Ministries in 1973. [5] In 2018, it had 1,800 volunteers in 70 countries. [6]
In 1880, about 150 Baptist pastors met in Montgomery, Alabama, forming the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention and electing William H. McAlpine as their president. This formation was somewhat a result of the demise of the Consolidated American Baptist Convention, as this death created a vacuum in mission work.
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