Today the Georgia Baptist Association, meeting at the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, concludes. As is often customary in Baptist associations, delegates issue a “report” on the state of the churches of the association that will be circulated among member congregations in the weeks and months to come. The report declares, in part: [Some…
The annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Association continues today. Gathered in the Bairds Baptist Church in Oglethorpe County, the white Southern Baptist delegates in several resolutions address post-war changes in the South as pertaining to religion. It is “the sense of this organization and its earnest wish,” one resolution reads, “that the Southern Organizations…
Born in 1839 in Lowndes County, Georgia, the future Rev. James Madison “Boss” Hendry as a child moved with his parents to Florida. There he lived when the war broke out. He acquired the nickname “Boss” because of his “aggressive” nature. Enlisting on May 4, 1862 as a private at Fort Meade, Florida, he serves…