The purpose of this study was to explore how pastoral succession planning was described by pastors in Southern Baptist churches in Mississippi. The researcher used Rothwell's Seven-Pointed Star Model (SPSM) as the theoretical foundation. Three research questions guided this study: RQ1: How do ...
Vassar said this mission trip could be the most Kingdom-minded and the greatest missional engagement Mississippi County Baptist Association has ever been a part of locally. “We’re so thankful for our partnering churches, Cross Church, Clint Ritchie and the Arkansas Baptist State Convention,...
There are no Beachy Amish Mennonite churches in the state as of this writing. But there is Old German Baptist Brethren Church in the town of Hot Coffee, Mississippi. There had been a handful of families, but as of this writing it was down to one, the Diehl family. They are farmers and...
Youth Ballet and MiniMag! often perform at local nursing homes, schools and churches, and the Summer Dance Intensive and Teachers Workshop bring hundreds of students from around the world to Jackson for a unique technical and spiritual experience. Ballet Magnificat! also started the Dance Program ...
the Yalobusha Baptist Association in central Mississippi split in two in the controversy between old and new. Five churches broke away to form the Loosascoona Primitive Baptist Association. “I am not of you,” one elder spoke out at the meeting, “and that it may be manifest that I am ...
In the postwar period, freedmen withdrew from white-run churches to set up independent congregations. The majority of blacks left the Southern Baptist Convention, sharply reducing its membership. They created independent black Baptist congregations. By 1895 they had established numerous black Baptist st...
Schwerner and his twenty-one-year-old chief aide , a native black Meridian named James Chaney, were in Ohio to attend a three-day program sponsored by the National Council of Churches to train recruits for the Mississippi Summer Project. Among those being trained for a summer of work aimed ...
A brief visit to each county as known in 1891. Each county lists some historical facts, Person of Interest, Business, Churches, Secret Societies of the town. In the years since this was written many of the county lines have changes, some no longer exist. ...
"Religion is a fundamental part of Southern identity, generally, and music is often at its very heart. This is nowhere truer than in the black churches of the Deep South, where communities articulate their view of themselves and the world they live in through the religious songs and hymns ...