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1921-Present Adoniram Judson Window First Baptist Church Oak Park, Illinois     IL The First Baptist Church of Oak Park formally begun with a service in the home of its members on April 25, 1873. Rapid growth during the early years led to a move to a rental hall until the congregation occupied its first church […]

1921-2022 Judson Lodge at Camp Tippecanoe North Webster Indiana     IN Camp Tippecanoe served Indiana Baptists for 101 years before closing in 2022. The facilities included a Judson Lodge for housing both boys and girls—boys in Adoniram Judson Hall and girls in Ann Judson Hall.

1921-Present Judson Baptist Church Belle, West Virginia            WV A Baptist Sunday School was organized at Belle on the last Sunday in March, 1916, in the old school house on Simmons Creek. It continued through 1920 when it was determined that a Baptist Church was needed in Belle. An organizational meeting was held on May 5,

1919-Present Judson Baptist Church Winfield, West Virginia           WV Text at bottom of photo reads: Founding members of Judson Baptist Church from ca. 1940-photo courtesy of Terry McCallister. Two women were the moving force that caused Judson Baptist Church to be constructed on Bills Creek Road near Winfield, W.Va. The congregation had organized in June 20,

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