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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

February 15, 1825. Adoniram meets baby Maria. When little Maria was 20 days old, she met her imprisoned father for the first time. “Nancy appeared at the prison gate with the baby in her arms….  Adoniram’s feelings were a mixture of love, frustration and sadness…. Their first baby had been buried at sea.  The second,

February 27, 2025. A Supreme Desire to Please Him: The Spirituality of Adoniram Judson by Evan D. Burns (Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2016). I finished reading this book on the spirituality of Adoniram Judson and found it to be an excellent work. I thoroughly enjoyed this study and added this publication to my personal list of Top Ten

February 15-17, 2025. Fifty-two people from Kansas City took a road trip to Judson University over Presidents Weekend 2025. There were 43 students and 9 sponsors from: Peace Baptist Church, KCMO; Pleasant Green Baptist Church, KCMO; Second Baptist Church, KCMO; Bethel Neighborhood Center, KCKS; Karen Grace Baptist Church, KCMO. Thanks to Judson for hosting us

March 5. 1825. Two hundred years ago this week, in early March 1825, Adoniram Judson was in prison and facing execution.  The six white people in the jail were put through the final preparations for death by the Burmans who needed to appease the gods and win a battle over the invading British army. Judson’s