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7 unusual facts about Southern Baptist Convention


B. H. Carroll Theological Institute

The Institute's founding chancellor is Russell H. Dilday, a former president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, who wrote of a 'lively renaissance of Baptist theological education at the edge of a new millennium' prior to the launch of the Institute.

Deanburg, Tennessee

It is home to two Baptist churches (Bethel and Deanburg) and a community center.

Herlong, California

Herlong has several churches including the Bible Baptist Church, an Assembly of God church, and a Southern Baptist church.

James Philip Eagle

Eagle was elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1902 and was reelected to that position twice more.

Temple Baptist Seminary

Though originally established as "Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary" on January 26, 1948, the name was changed to Temple Baptist Seminary five years later, after the Southern Baptist Convention founded its own Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The NoZe Brotherhood

Targets of the NoZe Brothers' mirth included Baylor's faculty, administration, the Southern Baptist Convention, various student organizations, and themselves.

University Baptist Church – Manila, Philippines

University Baptist Church (UBC) is a Southern Baptist Church located in University Belt in Metro Manila, Philippines.


East Texas Baptist University

ETBU was founded as the College of Marshall in 1912, after a campaign to create a Southern Baptist college in East Texas.

International Pentecostal Holiness Church

Several ministers who were raised in the Pentecostal Holiness Church have come to have greater name recognition than the church itself, such as Oral Roberts, an internationally known charismatic evangelist; Charles Stanley, a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention; and C.M. Ward, a former Assemblies of God radio preacher.

Jeff Iorg

Iorg began his career in pastoral ministry, serving in both his home state of Texas as well as in Missouri before becoming founding pastor of one of the largest Southern Baptist churches of the Northwest, Greater Gresham Baptist Church in Gresham, Oregon.

Monroe E. Dodd

Dodd served as a president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention and was a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance.

Tehillah Magazine

The publication is primarily distributed to small- to mega-churches in all denominations and church organizations, i.e., Full Gospel, C.O.G.I.C., Southern Baptist and A.M.E., across the continental U.S. and Bahamas.

Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists of Russia

In the summer of 1946 Louie De Votie Newton, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention of the USA was invited by Joseph Stalin to visit Russia on a five-week tour and to investigate the status of its 2,000,000 Baptists.


see also

James Draper

James T. Draper, Jr. (born 1935), former Southern Baptist Convention President

Luter

Fred Luter (born 1956), president of the Southern Baptist Convention for the term beginning 2012

Mark Perrin Lowrey

He is known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War, for his works in the Mississippi Southern Baptist Convention, and for founding the Blue Mountain College.