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v. t. e. Annie Armstrong was born in Baltimore, Maryland [1] to tobacconist John Dunn Armstrong and his wife Mary Elizabeth (Walker) Armstrong. She also had a brother named James. [2] She came from a long line of prominent Baptists including her great-great-grandfather Henry Sater who helped establish the first Baptist church in Maryland. [2]
e. Richard Fuller was born on April 22, 1804, in Beaufort, South Carolina. His great-grandfather William Fuller arrived in Yorktown from Wincanton, South Somerset, England in 1702 and settled in Edgecombe County, North Carolina in the 1720s. His grandfather moved to Beaufort, South Carolina in the 1780s. He received his early instruction from ...
Baltimore years Annie Armstrong. Annie Armstrong, elected as the first corresponding secretary during the organizational meeting, lived in Baltimore. WMU was originally established and remains an auxiliary to the Southern Baptist Convention, which means that it acts as a "helper" to the SBC.
Joining them was Christa Brown, who has long advocated for fellow survivors of sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches and criticized the denomination’s resistance to reforms, an effort she has chronicled in a new memoir, “Baptistland.” The Southern Baptists ongoing struggles with sexual abuse reforms is also on this year's calendar.
The Southern Baptist Convention faces yet another crisis of identity at its upcoming annual meeting. Anticipation ahead of the 2022 and 2023 SBC annual meetings was one of existential angst ...
But because that pastor is a woman, First Baptist’s days in the Southern Baptist Convention may be numbered. At the SBC’s annual meeting June 11-12 in Indianapolis, representatives will vote on whether to amend the denomination’s constitution to essentially ban churches with any women pastors — and not just in the top job.
The convention has struggled to respond to sexual abuse in its churches since a 2019 report by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, saying that roughly 380 Southern Baptist church ...
From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of ...