1850-Present

Judson Baptist Church

Abbeville, Alabama       AL

There were baptisms in the creek near the site of Judson Baptist Church back in 1848 before the congregation was formally established in 1850, the year that Adoniram Judson, Jr., died off the coast of Burma. This congregation would be the host church for the founding of Judson Missionary Baptist Association (see entry 1850-Present) in 1850 so the church had to be organized before that date. With 166 members, Judson was the largest of the nine churches which made up the new association. Its pastor, Edwin Cody, was the second moderator of the association beginning his term in 1857 but after 1861 Cody’s name no longer appears in the records leaving the hint that he died during the Civil War.[1] By 1875 Judson Church had a Sabbath School.[2]

Currently the pastor of Judson Baptist Church in Henry County, Alabama, is Brandon Turner who served the church for a quarter of a century and now also serves as director of missions for the Judson Missionary Baptist Association headquartered in Abbeville.

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[1] R. J. Lee and Larry Smith, History of Judson Missionary Baptist Association, unpublished manuscript available from 532 Ozark Road, Abbeville, Alabama 36310, p. 1.

[2] Ibid., p. 5.

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