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The latter half of the seventeenth century witnessed the advent of the Baptists within the bounds of Maine. Baptists worshipping in the Kittery area requested that the First Baptist Church of Boston license one of their number, William Screven, as minister. Screven was licensed January 11, 1682 and proceeded to prosecute the great and noble work of preaching the gospel. Read more...

ELDER ISAAC CASE PATRIOT – PREACHER – CHURCH PLANTER Elder Isaac Case was one of the greatest church planters in American history. Wholly given to the ministry, Case was tireless in labour, disinterested in service and single in vision. He was esteemed by his peers and loved by the Baptists of Maine. The son of William and Abigail Bell Case, Isaac Read more...

Phillips Brooks wrote “O Little Town of Bethlehem” – but as David Larsen pointed out, “like his preaching, even the hymn lacks strong Christological affirmation.” Larsen quotes from his successor’s biography of Brooks: His mother had in the earlier years of his ministry feared for his faith, and she had prayed mightily that he might remain true. She warned him Read more...

Image Credit: George Baxter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons   Voyage to the rock – read an account Archaeology of Christianity in Vanuatu (including map of the last day of Williams   From Wikipedia: Most of the Williamses’ missionary work, and their delivery of a cultural message, was very successful and they became famed in Congregational circles. However, in November Read more...

At Mount Rushmore, a history of the United States was to be carved in stone. It ended up being memorialized in brass, but recognizes the Christian Heritage of America. Almighty God, from this pulpit of stone the American people render thanksgiving and praise for the new era of civilization brought forth upon this continent. Centuries of tyrannical oppression sent to Read more...

Original Site of Bob Jones University.   Image Credit: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

Wikipedia: The Statue of David Livingstone on the Zimbabwe side of the Victoria Falls is erected towards Devil’s Cataract in the western bank of the falls. The statue has an inscription that states that David Livingstone visited the falls in 1851 when he documented his first impression on the beauty of the waterfalls during his first encounter when he named the falls after Queen Victoria.[2][3] There has been two Read more...

Statue commemorating the Congregationalist missionary, explorer of Africa and enemy of slavery who became a popular hero of late-Victorian Britain. Featured Image Credit: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

Christian Hall of Fame: William Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek diligently at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, specifically the Textus Receptus. He conferred with Luther in Germany and stayed on the continent translating the Bible from Greek into English and smuggling New Testaments into England. He was betrayed by a friend and was arrested in Read more...

The subject of Chariots of Fire, returned to China as a missionary after the Olympics. During World War II he was kept in a Japanese Internment Camp known as Weixian Internment Camp.   Featured Image Credit: Alexandquan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   Other photos available from Nicholas Kitto Photos from 1991   http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/people/individuals/Eric01/txt_monument.htm   https://churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/261525-chinas-hero-eric-liddell-honored-statue.html   Read more...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 – February 6, 2001) was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond Read more...

From the UPenn website: Religious figure George Whitefield was born in 1714 in Gloucester, England. He was most known for being an evangelist in America who was part of the Great Awakening and one of the founders of Methodism (George Whitefield, n.d.). The Great Awakening was the religious revival of Christianity that impacted English colonies in America (Great Awakening, 2019). Read more...

Much of John Jasper’s childhood and teenaged years were spent working at both Peachy Plantations, one located in Fluvanna County and the other near the city of Williamsburg. At the age of twenty-five, he was sold to Samuel Hargrove, “a devout member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Richmond.” (www.preaching.com) His relationship with Hargrove would forever change the Read more...

Inscription: A Delaware Indian of the Munsee branch, he exemplified the spirit of reconciliation. He lived on 315 acres northeast of here, patented to him by the Penns, 1738. Tatamy was the first Native American baptized by the famed David Brainerd, 1745. An interpreter, he undertook many diplomatic missions. The borough of Tatamy, incorporated 1893, was named for him. Featured Read more...

A group of separtists sought to worship God as guided by their conscience. Known as the Pilgrims, they left England for the Netherlands, but soon their religious freedoms were threatened again by the king they had left. Would the New World be their destination? It would be a dangeorus voyage – and even more deadly if they arrived! In 1620 Read more...

Inscription: John Eliot established here in 1651 a village of Christian Indians called Hassanamesit – “at a place of small stones.” It was the home of James the Printer who helped Eliot to print the Indian Bible. Featured Image Credit: Photo: Hassanamesit Marker. www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=156695. Read more...

Inscription Text What occurred on Wednesday May 24, 1738, I think best to relate at large, after premising what may make it the better understood. Let him that cannot receive it, ask of the Father of lights, that he would give more light to him and me. I think it was about five this morning that I opened my Testament Read more...

Inscription: This tablet is erected to the glory of God in commemoration of the evangelical conversion of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A., on May 24, 1738. (The site of the meeting room of The Religious Society was probably 28 Aldersgate Street), and of the Rev. Charles Wesley, M. A., on May 21, 1738, The site of the house is Read more...