Baptist African American residents of Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood have been holding religious services in private homes for about five years. Today, finally, the meetings lead to the foundation of the First Baptist Church of Georgetown, thanks to the leadership of the Rev. Sandy Alexander, a former slave. Originally from Virginia, Alexander’s master brought him…
Washington, D.C.’s E Street Baptist Church, the city’s leading Baptist congregation, is in turmoil. In the face of an impending split, the pastor recently resigned, and mere days earlier a significant numbers of members met to begin the formation of a new congregation (soon to be known as Calvary Baptist Church). The cause of the…
Baptists in the United States capital are affected by the war. Washington D.C. itself has experienced much change in the past year and-a-half in the form of an influx of newcomers who came “to fill vacancies in the civil service and to meet the demands of the times.” In short, the new Lincoln administration and…