Birthplace of
The Missouri Baptist Convention
August, 1834
Earliest known photograph of Providence Baptist Church
In August of 1834, concerned Baptists from across primitive Missouri gathered at "Old Brick Providence" in Callaway County and put into motion the organization of the greatest Baptist cooperative mission work this state has ever seen. The Missouri Baptist Convention exists today as a monument to the mission spirit and the clear vision of those early Missouri Baptist leaders such as Jeremiah Vardeman and James Suggett.
As one easterner who came west to Missouri thinking that all Baptist Preachers would be backward and uneducated said, “I am surprised and I confess it. I have never seen in New York or in New England a more magnificent body of men, nor such manly dignity and genuine courtesy in the members of any deliberative assembly.”[1]
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[1]
Yeaman, W. Pope, History of the Missouri Baptist
General Association, Press of E. W. Stephens, Columbia, Mo., 1899, p.
31