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1911-Present Judson Baptist Church Nashville, Tennessee        TN The beginning of the Judson Memorial Baptist Church was a stop-and-start affair centered around a new housing addition in Nashville named Waverly Place. “In its formation, strong lay leadership made the church possible.”[1] And now came the task of naming this new congregation. For a few weeks the congregation […]

1909-Present  Judson Memorial Baptist Church   Minneapolis, Minnesota           MN Pastor G. Travis Norvell succinctly summarizes the history of Judson Memorial Baptist Church in his rollicking book by Judson Press entitled Church on the Move: Originally Judson Church was an expression of movement, a mission/chapel founded by Calvary Baptist in 1909 on what was then prairie

1908-Present Judson Tower Green Lake, Wisconsin         WI The Green Lake Conference Center website offers this overview of Judson Tower and its surroundings. Judson Tower is the center piece of Green Lake Conference Center, a year-round Christian conference center set on the deepest lake in Wisconsin with a rich and interesting history dating back to the early

1906-Present Judson Manor  Cleveland, Ohio       OH The website of Judson Manor best tells the history and this present ministry through its webpage which lists this chronological timetable. It is a wonderful example of bottom-up ministry which is so prevalent in Baptist life. Judson Services is now the umbrella organization that operates Judson Manor, Judson Park

1900-Present An Interlude: Adoniram Judson Feast Day of the Episcopal Church in America Judson University’s iconic professor, Dr. Stuart Ryder, first alerted me that the Episcopal Church of America annually honors Adoniram Judson, Jr., and as self-appointed compiler of people, places and things named for Ann and/or Adoniram Judson, I choose to insert that litany

1898-1978 Judson Palmer Watson, Sr. Attorney      Ohio/Wyoming    OH/WY Judson Palmer “Jud” Watson was born October 1, 1898 to Josiah and Ella Sheldon Watson in Ohio but moved to Wyoming in 1908 when his mother took a homestead a mile west to Keeling.[1] He served as a private in the U.S. Army during World War I.Judson

1892-Present Judson Baptist Church Prescott, Michigan              MI The founding pastor of this congregation in southeastern Michigan was Rev. Adoniram Judson Waterbury who began pastoring in nearby Tawas, MI, in 1892. There must have been an early church planting program to encourage him to begin this congregation that same year. He is credited with leading the

1892-Present Judson Chapel Church Rangoon, Burma Yangon, Myanmar As Rangoon Baptist College (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 corpus of Christian students and thus organized the Rangoon Baptist College Church on July 29, 1892. David

1890-Present Judson Baptist Association (now Baptist Association of Greater Baton Rouge) Baton Rouge, Louisiana         LA On November 19, 1890, Beulah Baptist Association was chosen as the name for the new association. On November 7, 1891, the Association (Beulah Assoc.) voted to change its name from Beulah Baptist Association to Judson Baptist Association. The name was chosen

1890-Present Judson Memorial Church   New York, New York NY/NY I have cherry-picked sentences and paragraphs from the historical section of the Judson Memorial Church website and appreciate this good congregation for sharing their history so thoroughly and so liberally. In 1890, distinguished preacher and church leader Edward Judson initiated construction of Judson Church as a