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Bellevue Baptist was founded in 1903 by Central Baptist Church as a mission church on the outskirts of Memphis. With a small $1,000 gift from member Fannie Jobe, Pastor Thomas Potts led the congregation to build a one-room stone chapel at the corner of Bellevue and Erskine Avenues.
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 told his congregation about his diagnosis during Sunday worship services. He will be seeking treatment at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Steve Gaines, who served as Southern Baptist Convention president from 2016-18, first accepted the pastorate at Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.
In 1996, the school moved to a larger campus in South Germantown, Tennessee, in the quarters of the old Germantown Baptist Church. In 2006, the school moved to Cordova, Tennessee, across the street from the Bellevue Baptist Church into a new $28 million facility located on 51 acres (35 donated by Bellevue and 16 purchased by the Seminary). [7]
As part of a counseling center, Lara hosted the first class in a mall in Memphis, Tennessee. [19] [20] The program was offered as small classes in retail and non-religious settings. [21] [22] She began hosting the program at Bellevue Baptist Church near Memphis in the 1990s.
He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Merritt Island, Florida from 1964 to 1972. In 1972, he became the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained until March 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to 29,000, and the church moved into a new, megachurch facility. [4]
Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2021. It was the first Black church in the Disciples of Christ denomination in Memphis. For 100 years, The BLVD 'has ...