Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Give Us Time." Today, with 20,500,000 members, the Baptists are the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., and within that denomination the Southern Baptist Conference accounts for nearly half-9,500,000.* In the last ten years, more than 1,000 new members were baptized every day, and today the Southern Baptists have 31,906 churches worth more than $2 billion, run six seminaries, 51 colleges and universities, twelve academies and Bible schools. Most of the schools are conservative, but most also offer increasingly broad training, e.g., the theological seminaries at Mill Valley (Calif.), Kansas City (Mo.), Wake...
...Southern Baptist missionary zeal is unrivaled. Some 1,500 foreign missionaries are currently doing medical, education and evangelical work in 44 countries, with their best achievements registered in Japan, Nigeria and Brazil (1,470 Baptist churches). In Nigeria, five Cabinet ministers in the Western Region are mission-trained Baptists. In Ghana, a Baptist mission hospital treats some 2,400 patients a month. In Kenya, Moslems and Christians, Arabs and Negro tribesmen attend Sunday school by the hundreds, and women flock to weekday sewing classes. In Beirut, Lebanon, last week, the Southern Baptists' 36th foreign seminary opened with 22 students...
Both foreign and home missions are enthusiastically financed by Southern Baptist churches and heavily tithing members. Typical example: the First Baptist Church in Decatur (Ga.), operating on a $407,114 yearly budget, spends $173,557 of it to support a Jordan hospital and other mission work, though its own building loan is not yet paid. In 1959 alone, gifts to the Southern Baptist Conference ran nearly $500 million...
...when demagogues could sway the great Southern Baptist Convention may be over, although the fear of the demagogue is still strong in official circles. The convention's greatest resource is in its increasing abundance of intelligent, well-trained young lay and clerical leadership. This group is sensitive to national and world opinion of Southern Baptists, and mindful of Baptist weaknesses as well as strength, it says, 'Give us time...
...Disputed by U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, an ordained Northern Baptist minister, who insists that his Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem has more active members...