Today the Bethlehem Baptist Association of Alabama convenes at the Brooklyn Church in Conecuh County. A special prayer meeting is held “for our bleeding country, and for the success of our arms.” A resolution concerning the war is passed: “Resolved, That the Bethlehem Baptist Association now in session recommend, especially to the Churches within her…
Baptist layman and future editor of the Alabama Baptist (the state newspaper of Alabama’s Southern Baptists) from 1884 to 1902, John Gideon Harris, organizer of Company I of the Alabama 20th Infantry Regiment in Greene County, assembles with the full regiment. The regiment is comprised of recruits from Bibb, Dallas, Greene, Hale, Jefferson, Perry, Russell,…
First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, NC This month a new Baptist church is formed on Sand Mountain in Jackson County in north Alabama. The former Sand Mountain mission, an “arm” of nearby Friendship Baptist Church, formally becomes a church. Taking the name of Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church of Christ, the new church is constituted with…