Southern Baptist Heritage

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  • John Smyth and Thomas Helwys organize first English-speaking Baptist Church

    John Smyth and Thomas Helwys organize first English-speaking Baptist Church

  • London Baptists organize first Particular Baptist Church

  • Providence Baptist Church organizes first Baptist Church in North America

    Providence Baptist Church organizes first Baptist Church in North America

  • Charleston FBC – First Baptist church in the South

    Charleston FBC – First Baptist church in the South

  • Philadelphia Baptist Association – First Baptist association

    Philadelphia Baptist Association – First Baptist association

  • George Whitefield preaches in Baptist church in Charleston at start of First Great Awakening

    George Whitefield preaches in Baptist church in Charleston at start of First Great Awakening

  • Charleston Baptist Association – First Baptist association in the South

  • Sandy Creek Baptist Association – Center of Separate Baptist movement

  • Key Figure: George Liele

    Key Figure: George Liele

    George Liele, born and raised as a slave in Virginia, converted to Christianity and was set free by his Master. In 1783, Liele took his family to Jamaica and began to preach the gospel there, starting the spiritual awakening and Baptist movement in Jamaica.

  • Key Figure: David Barrow

    David Barrow, a respected pastor in Virginia, is among the first to free his slaves, and becomes a leading advocate for the abolition of slavery.
  • John Taylor’s preaching begins Second Great Awakening

    John Taylor’s preaching begins Second Great Awakening

  • Key Figure: Luther Rice

    Luther Rice, friend and co-laborer of Adoniram Judson, become Baptists, so Luther returns home to raise support from the Baptist Denomination. In his pursuit, he unites Baptists all over the country, helping to encourage the formation of the Triennial Convention, and continuing to raise funds and support for missions.
  • Triennial Convention formed

    Triennial Convention formed

  • Key Figure: Ann Judson

    Key Figure: Ann Judson

    Ann Judson (with her husband Adoniram Judson) arrive as part of the first group of missionaries to Burma, where she helped establish the Burmese Church, and translated and produced a Catechism in the Burmese language.
  • Baptists appoint Lott Cary as first African-American missionary

    Baptists appoint Lott Cary as first African-American missionary

  • Baptists Disfellowship Cambellites

    Baptists Disfellowship Cambellites

  • Key Figure: Sarah Judson

    In 1845, Sarah Judson dies, concluding a lifetime of devoted to missions (as a single woman, married to George Boardman, as a widow, and then again married to Adoniram Judson) translating the New Testament and various tracts into the native tongue for Burmese speakers.
  • Southern Baptist Convention (including Foreign and Home Mission Boards)

    Southern Baptist Convention (including Foreign and Home Mission Boards)

  • Key Figure: Martha Crawford

    Key Figure: Martha Crawford

    In 1851, Martha Crawford (with her husband Tarleton P. Crawford) is appointed as a missionary to China, which starts her 50 years of missionary gospel work.
  • Key Figure: James M. Pendleton

    Key Figure: James M. Pendleton

    In 1854 James M. Pendleton, a prominent and outspoken anti-slavery activist and prominent Southern Baptist Pastor, penned An Old Landmark Re-Set which perpetuated the view of Landmarkism.

  • Southern Baptist Theological Seminary founded

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    Civil War

  • Key Figure: Lottie Moon

    Key Figure: Lottie Moon

    In 1873 Lottie Moon (1840-1912) is appointed to serve as a missionary in China by the Foreign Mission Board, where she will serve faithfully until the year of her death.
  • Toy's dismissal from SBTS

    Toy's dismissal from SBTS

  • First Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

  • Alberto Diaz to Cuba as SBC Missionary

  • Key Figure: Annie Armstrong

    Key Figure: Annie Armstrong

    the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is established, named to honor the woman whose organization prowess and love for the gospel helped found the Woman’s Missionary Union, and raised immeasurable support for the Home Mission Board.

  • Baptists adopt Cooperative Program and Baptist Faith and Message

  • Key Figure: Bertha Smith

    Key Figure: Bertha Smith

    When Communism took over China in 1948, Bertha Smith was forced out of the country, but rather than returning home, she continued her gospel work in Taiwan. Bertha served as a single woman missionary for 42 years and “retired” by doing missionary work in 10+ other countries.
  • Billy Graham Crusade in Los Angeles

    Billy Graham Crusade in Los Angeles

  • Martyrdom of Bill Wallace in China

    Martyrdom of Bill Wallace in China

  • Ralph Elliot's Message of Genesis

    Ralph Elliot's Message of Genesis

  • Baptist Faith and Message Revised

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    Growing controversy over the infallibility of Scripture within SBC

  • Adrian Rogers elected SBC president to start conservative revolution

    Adrian Rogers elected SBC president to start conservative revolution

  • Dallas Largest SBC in History (45,561)

  • First meeting of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

  • R. Albert Mohler Appointed president at SBTS

    R. Albert Mohler Appointed president at SBTS

  • Racial reconciliation statement in SBC

  • Baptist Faith and Message Revised to reassert inerrancy