Missionary Baptists

As the local associations increased, missionary Baptists became interested in cooperation together on the broader state level.

The Methodist congregation, like that of the Missionary Baptists, was small.

Some groups like the Old Time Missionary Baptists take an actual vote throughout its members.

Robert Glover preached 41 years in the ranks of Missionary Baptists.

The Missionary Baptists, with a much smaller congregation, continued to meet intermittently throughout the 19th century.

Are we Missionary Baptists?

The two main religious denominations were the Primitive Baptists and Missionary Baptists.

This is an issue that would separate them from most present-day missionary Baptists in Arkansas, but would have been of little consequence in the mid-1800s.

Since arising in the 19th century, the influence of Primitive Baptists has waned as "Missionary Baptists became the mainstream".

A movement began to unify various state and regional associations of missionary Baptists into a national association - a scope which the General Association apparently never enjoyed.

Christian Protestantism- especially Primitive Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians; dominated the religious culture of the region.

Those who supported these new measures continue as the Duck River Association of Missionary Baptists and are affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.

There were Baptist churches of every type-Freewill Baptists, Southern Baptists, Congregational Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Independent Baptists . . . well, you get the picture.

The Primitives, or Hardshells, had church there on the first and third Sabbath of each month, and the Modernists or Missionary Baptists used the church on the second and fourth Sundays.

The major differences doctrinally between the Kelleyites and the missionary Baptists of Arkansas at the time of division was that the Kelleyites held final apostasy (or falling from grace), open communion, and alien baptism.

Descendants of the Separate Baptists include the Separate Baptists in Christ, Landmark Missionary Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Southern Baptists, United Baptists, and The Baptists.

This growth stopped when the Primitive Baptists separated from the missionary Baptists; and instead, from 1835 to 1845, the Convention saw a growth in the number of Baptist associations joining it, with fourteen associations joining during that period.

Though Triumph traces its beginnings to the Missionary Baptists organization, as part of the "seeker sensitive" movement it does not publicize its traditional "Baptist" ties as research indicates new believers are less drawn to traditional forms church activities and worship.

Beginning in 1839, Jamaican Baptists and English missionary Baptists to Jamaica (such as James Phillippo, Thomas Burchell, Samuel Oughton and William Knibb) proposed the establishment of a mission to West Africa.

L'Association des Églises Missionnaire Baptiste Landmark du Québec (or the Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of Quebec) was a local association of French-speaking Landmark Missionary Baptists in Quebec.

Elder E. J. Lambert, a Primitive Baptist minister who was raised among this body, and whose father was a minister of the Church of Christ, consistently refers to them in his autobiography as the Church of Christ (Kelly Division of Missionary Baptists).

His mother, Hazel, played guitar, piano and harmonica and often sang to her six children in her North Carolina mountain voice - "Some of my notes come from my mother's singing," he says - and because the McCourys were Missionary Baptists, there was plenty of hymning at church.

Missionary Baptists are a group of Baptists that grew out of the missionary / anti-missionary controversy that divided Baptists in the United States in the early part of the 19th century, with Missionary Baptists following the pro-missions movement position.