2014-Present Judson C., Student Colorado Springs CO/CO Judson C was born in 2014.[i] When asked why this child was named for pioneering Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson, his travel agent father replied: After we got married, I fell sick with mono and laid around for a week with no energy. During this time, I read […]
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2005-Present Judson Davis Coverstone Student, Freeport, Illinois IL/IL On 16 June 2005, Judson Davis Coverstone was born to Brianna Kathryn Coverstone and her husband, Pastor Justin Coverstone. Judson was the third child of seven who would make up this Presbyterian pastor’s family in Freeport, Illinois. Two trials converged to guide these parents in their selection
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2025-Present Judson Heritage Center Malden, Massachusetts MA Adoniram Judson, Jr., was born in 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts, the son of a conservative Congregational pastor and the first of four children born to the parson and his wife, Abigail. Their home in Malden was called The Parsonage and is now the oldest structure in this Boston suburb
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August 6-10, 2025. These next few days acknowledge important events in the Judson Legacy. August 6 will be the 237th birthday of Adoniram Judson, Jr., who was the first protestant missionary to Burma. Born in 1788 in Malden, Massachusetts, he was the son of a Congregational pastor and the first of four children born to
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July 29, 1892. Judson College (Burma) births Judson Chapel. As Rangoon Baptist College (eventually Judson College) came to maturity in Rangoon (see entry 1872-1965), the Burma Baptist Convention determined a church should be planted in the midst of this growing community of Christian students and thus organized the Rangoon Baptist College Church on July 29,
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RA1842-1904 James Judson Barndollar Coffeyville, KS James Judson Barndollar was a businessman who had a general merchandise store in Coffeyville, KS, when the Dalton gang tried to rob two banks on October 5, 1892. His store was involved. I have no evidence he was named for AJ. I have two obituaries in my box of
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June 9, 2025. June is National Camping Month and we have discovered at least seven camps and/or camping facilities that were named for Ann and/or Adoniram Judson in the twentieth century. We affirm their continuing ministry to youth in our churches and our society.
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June 8, 2021. America’s largest protestant denomination, Southern Baptist Convention, will meet in Dallas, TX, June 8-11, this month. They may be gaveled into session by the Adoniram Judson gavel, a tradition begun in 2021 by J. D. Greear. As convention president, Greear broke with previous patterns and did not use the Broadus gavel which
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May 28, 1825. Two hundred years ago, Ann Judson saves the prison community. Two hundred years ago, after a brutal forced march to his second prison, Adoniram Judson was recuperating when smallpox hit the local community. While previously in the States on medical leave (1821-23) Ann Judson was part of an experimental project, involving Adoniram’s
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May 21, 2025. With only 5 candidate church members, a board from neighboring congregations blessed the founding of Judson Baptist Church on 21 May 1859. For 164 years the heritage of these 5 congregants has continued to minister on the west side of Kokomo, Indiana. The church preceded both the community and the road that
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