Baptist History

The apostle to the West by Thomas Ray John Mason Peck has been described as the Apostle to the West (the Mississippi Valley). Peck was converted when he was 18 and united with a Congregational […]

by Thomas Ray Justus Vinton was born February 17, 1806, in Ashford, Connecticut, and converted at the age of ten. Believing God had called him to preach the gospel, he enrolled at the age of […]

The man who wouldn’t quit by Thomas Ray In 1934, a 32-year-old Jewish woman discovered she was pregnant — her 10th pregnancy. Her plan was to obtain an abortion, just as she had with her […]

The preacher they tried to kill By Thomas Ray James Ireland was born in 1748 to an affluent Scot­tish family. His future was filled with promise, but a youthful indiscretion forced him to abandon his […]

The great Welsh preacher By Thomas Ray Christmas Evans has been described as a man who labored like the Apostle Paul, who possessed the imagination of Bunyan, the eloquence of Whitfield, and is considered by […]

by Thomas Ray Africa was once called the “Graveyard of Missionaries.” The loss of life had become so devastating that the Baptist Mission Board had stopped asking for any new volunteers. William Crocker, the subject […]

by Thomas Ray Jeremiah Vardeman was probably the most effective pulpit orator and the most successful preacher who ever lived in Kentucky. He was born in Wythe County, Virginia, July 8, 1775. In 1779, at […]

by Thomas Ray Johann Gerhard Oncken Every Baptist a missionary Baptist History Charles Spurgeon described Johann Oncken as “The Apostle Paul of Germany.” Baptist historian Irwin Barnes states, “Oncken was the father not only of […]

by Thomas Ray Abraham Marshall was a worthy successor to his illustrious father, Daniel Marshall. The elder Marshall and Shubal Stearns were the founders of the Separate Baptist movement in the South. Abraham was born […]

by Thomas Ray America’s Oldest African American Church Baptist History T he founding of the First African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, in 1788, is a story stranger than fiction. George Liele, the famous black […]