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…
In western North Carolina, divided sentiments caused by secession and war lead to the formation of a new Baptist church – built on land donated by a northern transplant. The story begins in the 1830s, when Col. Lysander D. Childs, a young entrepreneur from Massachusetts, moved South and settled in Lincolnton, North Carolina in Lincoln…
This week’s Tennessee Baptist newspaper seeks assistance from Baptist women and merchants in the publishing of Bibles for Confederate soldiers. We do not believe in giving up to misfortune, or to cowering before difficulties, though they seem insurmountable. When it seemed impossible to print the Word of God in the South for our soldiers and…