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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 […]

July 29, 1892.  Judson College 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, 1892.

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.

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

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

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

May 11, 2025.  For most of you, this is Mother’s Day. For me, it is Mother’s Day plus the 104th anniversary of my mother’s birth on 11 May 1921 (Katie Hoyt Scarborough Cain). But for all of us, today begins National Skilled Nursing Care Week.  Five health and/or residential centers that employ such skilled nurses,

May 4, 1825.  Adoniram Judson had been imprisoned by Burmese authorities since June 8, 1824, charged with being a spy for the British armies advancing through Burma.  On May 4, 1825, he was suddenly moved from the Death Prison, where he had miraculously escaped death, to Aungbinle Prison, some eight miles away.  Stripped of his

April 22, 1923.  The Adoniram Judson window in the First Baptist Church of Oak Park, IL, was dedicated 102 years ago this week, April 22, 1923. The Great West Windows in the sanctuary feature vocations of the Christian ministry. One of those examples is Adoniram Judson, first American Baptist foreign missionary, and forerunner of the

April 12, 1850. Though we are 10 days early, it is time to recall the passing of Adoniram Judson, Jr., 175 years ago on 12 April 1850.  He was aboard the French vessel Aristide Marie hoping that salty sea air would renew his strength. During the forenoon of Friday, the 12th, his countenance was that