August 17: Rev. Daniel Baker
A Calvinistic Evangelist Imagine your mother dying when you were an infant. Then imagine your father dying when you were only eight years of age. How difficult your upbringing would be. In…
August 16: William Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D.
Jesus Christ is Lord over All of LIfe William Brenton Greene, Jr., was born this day, August 16th, in 1854 in Providence, Rhode Island. Educated at the College of New…
August 15: Old School Divides North & South
Ideas & Actions Have Consequences On this day, August 15th, in 1861, a group of pastors and ruling elders met in Atlanta to plan the division of a new denomination,…
August 14: A Farewell to Brothers
Parting Words from the Rev. John A. Van Lear On a grassy knoll in Virginia, surrounded by scenes of surpassing beauty, stands the Mossy Creek Church. The first settled pastor…
August 13: George R. M. Gilchrist
A Heart for Missions It was a proud day in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on March 14, 1892, when Elizabeth Rowland Gilchrist and her husband Joseph James Gilchrist welcomed their…