In the midst of a southern war effort that is rapidly stunting Baptist mission work at home and abroad, the first German Baptist congregation in Texas is organized today. The Ebenezer (now Greenvine) German Baptist Church in Burton is led by pastor J. Frank Kiefer, who serves the congregation until 1867. Born in 1833 in…
According to the Minutes of the 10th session of Georgia’s Oostanaula Baptist Association, not much is said about the war as the messengers gather this weekend at Friendship Church in Floyd County. Probably that’s not particularly true. Lack of reported discussion is rather misleading even if this group of churches does hail from the northwestern…
A faithful member of Dry Creek Baptist Church in Kenton County, northern Kentucky, as well as a founding member (1855) of Florence Baptist Church (and remaining a member until his death in 1873), Leonard Stephens (illustration) is a longtime Baptist. Born in Virginia in 1791, Leonard’s parents migrated to the northern Kentucky frontier, where the…