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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 ...
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 ...
Steve Gaines, who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016-18, first accepted the pastorate at Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.
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 ...
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 ...
It was purchased in 1919 by the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church for use as their parsonage. It was the home of Martin Luther King Jr. and his family while he was pastor, from 1954 until 1960. In January 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott , the home was bombed, focusing attention on the boycott and juxtaposing with King's non-violent methods.
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 ...