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The St. Louis Street Missionary Baptist Church was host to the seventh Colored Baptist Convention of Alabama in 1874, a meeting that lead to the formation of Selma University in 1878. [11] The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a National Historic Landmark near the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. [ 12 ]
Litton began his career as a pastor at churches in Arizona and Texas.Since 1994, he has served as the pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Alabama. [6] He was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in June 2021 on the second ballot with 52 percent of the vote and a margin of 556 votes.
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David Joseph Platt is an American evangelical Baptist pastor. He was senior pastor at the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, from 2006 to 2014. At the time he was the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States. From 2014 to 2017, Platt was president of the International Mission Board. He became pastor-teacher at McLean Bible ...
The second Baptist church was founded on June 3, 1809, [4] originally named West Fork of Flint River Church, although renamed to Enon Baptist Church shortly thereafter. [6] (In 1861 the Enon church moved to Huntsville, and was renamed the First Baptist Church of Huntsville in 1895. [6]) John Canterbery was the church's first pastor, called on ...
In 1999 Brunson was appointed senior pastor of the historic First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. [5] He was president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastor's Conference in 2003. [6] He moved to Jacksonville, Florida in February 2006 to replace retiring pastor Jerry Vines as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville. [7]
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]
The church grew and in six months moved out to Stallworth Funeral home in June 1981. After another year, the church moved to the YWCA in downtown Birmingham. On February 1, 1982, Faith Chapel sealed the bids for the sale of a 3.4-acre (14,000 m 2 ), 7,645-square-foot (710.2 m 2 ) McDonald Chapel School and were given the right to purchase the ...