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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.

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

March 23, 1911. Happy Birthday to Judson Memorial Baptist Church, Nashville, TN, formed 114 years ago as a new church start in a new housing addition called Waverly Place. Rather than name the congregation for the street upon which the church building was located, Deacon Henry D. Jamison suggested “Judson Memorial” Baptist Church and the

March 19, 1961.  Judson Baptist Church, KCKS, founded.  Sixty-four years ago this week, 19 March 1961, the Judson Baptist Church of Kansas City, Kansas, held their first service in their newly constructed building with 73 in Sunday School and 101 in worship. Happy Anniversary!! Four pastors have served at Judson over the past 64 years