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Sunday, November 30, 2025. I visited Judson Community Baptist Church in Judson, TX, where Dr. Keith Rothra has served as the founding pastor for 30 years, 1995-2025. We presented him a certificate of recognition from TheJudsonLegacyProject.com. I was invited to speak in the morning Bible study about Adoniram Judson. This congregation is known as “a […]

I attended the 175th meeting of the Judson Baptist Association in Abbeville, AL, on Tuesday, October 14, 2025. The reports were positive and the spirit was congenial. The highlight of the evening was the welcome of Outlet Ministries Christian Life Center Baptist Church into full membership. This African-American congregation was attracted to the Association because

September 6, 1812. Baptism by immersion of Ann and Adoniram Judson From a letter written by Ann Hasseltine Judson to her parents on February 14, 1813, from Isle of France where the Judsons had been exiled by the British East India Company.. “I will now, my dear parents and sisters, give you some account of

August 11, 2025. Judson University and Judson College. In mid-August the Judson legacy is apparent in Christian Higher Education. Two schools that carry the Judson name will open this week advancing the cause that was so important to both Ann and Adoniram Judson. Judson University in Elgin, Illinois, has been welcoming students under that name

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 (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,

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