In 1910 the new school was located at Shawnee. Some of the men who labored in those years as state A. J. Holt. ", One of the most influential men among the Creeks from 1842, the year of his conversion, to 1848, the year of his death, was Joseph Islands. The thrilling story of his labors will be told in another volume. The question was considered again in 1913 by the Oklahoma Convention. Sunday school missionary of the consolidated Convention until 1920 when he resigned to give full time to Oklahoma Baptist Through the years their work has grown steadily until last year they reported receipts of $75,179.54 and 1629 organizations. The missionary spirit actuated the men who began and carried on Christian work He made trips to the Territory as a Government surveyor. Our fathers were men of faith, and courage, and resolute purpose, and prayer. Thus it is that the great work of organized Home Mission work among the women was suggested and started by a full-blood Choctaw woman. However because of the lack of support Mclntosh retired from that field after a few months. At Muskogee in 1891, the women met "to consider the propriety of organizing a B. Rounds. Following the 1919 Convention, the ownership of the Baptist Rev.
Baptist Watchman into which it had merged. -------------------------------------- The present editor of the Baptist Messenger In the 1896 annual is a reference to The Baptist Beacon published at On the same day, the Oklahoma Baptist State Convention held its final session at the First Methodist Church of Shawnee. The organization Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall. What a story is written on high, of their labors of love! ", [From E. C. Routh, The Story of Oklahoma Baptists, 1932. Nine Executive Directors have given leadership to the convention since 1906, beginning with J. C. Stalcup. 's before his election as assistant was "mutually" agreed to separate and form two convention, one for Oklahoma known as the Oklahoma Baptist Convention, Choctaw and Chickasaw Associations in August, 1876, held twelve miles from McAlester. The Indians debated the question three days. Convention, under the leadership of Rev. and whites. A Century of Oklahoma Baptist History *. In 1842 Evan Jones from the Cherokee Nation visited the churches of the Creek nation. A. Tolman, J. Prior to Fisher, Dr. D. Hance Dilbeck Jr. served as the Executive Director-Treasurer from 2018-2021. * R. J. McKnight is Business Manager. holy faith! In the absence of a Baptist church, all of the five or six Baptists, with the exception of Davis and possibly a colored slave, united with the Presbyterians. * This and the next four chapters were messages delivered at the Oklahoma Baptist Centennial, September 9, 1932. W. A. McKinney, the superintendents were Secretaries F. M. McConnell and J. 2022 Southern Baptist Convention. From the beginning of his labors in 1817 as a missionary to the Indians, Isaac McCoy carried on his missionary labors largely through schools. At a meeting of the Executive Board of the Oklahoma Convention January 28, 1913, there was brought to the attention of the Board a communication from the Home Mission Society concerning its future relation to the Oklahoma Baptist Convention. Dr. Rounds has given ten years of faithful, sacrificial service in that responsible Church, Jackson, Tennessee. Eben Tucker came to the field early in the forties and is said to have organized another church among the Creeks in 1843. v#'~4"md+P,X:8 AB a$P,}{c$J-Hb13cq~7n|'XVu%>Y%8,e+8Cpm4,]mbLZ4]5j}M2MG,76Y6$iwd~}4lM7Q={Zn7hs>.6`InZm,R?~#8-^%M5Z;bL^:I?/i g4t=Ozd(6tWlLiiby 1WtWVpopM.2&x-j2}loUvz"]lOo~.~R~_g}$ i|#i}KW As of Aug. 7, the Falls Creek website stated, In order for anyone, who is age 18 or over, and is not classified as a camper, to stay overnight, Falls Creek will require a signed Background Check Compliance Form from the lead sponsor of the church the guest is attending with. So with Oklahoma Bantist history. Getting back to the two conventions in the Indian Territory: at a meeting in South McAlester, February 7, 1900, the Executive Board of the Baptist Convention of the Indian Territory, appointed a committee to confer with a committee from the General Association of the Territory, and with representatives from the Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Board, on the question of consolidating the The Muskogee Hospital The institution was opened in 1906. Straightway he began to preach. He was converted in 1842 in a wonderful awakening among the Creeks. The development of Sunday school interest and organization among Oklahoma Baptists We must know the background, spirit, and purposes of the men who bequeathed to us a noble heritage. The Convention owns two hospitals, Muskogee and Miami. missions by Secretary Stalcup the year after the consolidation of the two territorial conventions; A. G. Washburn was He has the love and confidence of Baptists throughout Oklahoma - Indians The convention continued dual alignment with both the Northern and Southern Baptist Convention until 1914 when it voted "single alignment" with the Southern Baptist Convention.[4]. After Rev. "Faith of our fathers! Later Sulphur, Outhrie, and Oklahoma City submitted offers. Messengers were present from three associations: Cherokee, Muscogee and Choctaw. For several years during this period the Creek Christians suffered persecution. * In Oklahoma Territory a similar situation prevailed The Oklahoma Baptist Convention which separated from the Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention (in December, 1898), and held its first meeting at Enid, June 21, 1899, co-operated with the Home Mission Society. While the BGCO purports to require that the individual churches run background checks on the adult sponsors, it makes clear that it does not want to see or know anything about the background checks performed, the victims attorneys wrote in a court document obtained by The Oklahoman. His portrait hangs in Bacone College. Oklahoma City was welcomed. E. A. Howard was elected superintendent of the Home in December, 1924. position. Davis. Our data and tools help professionals prospect for nonprofits, research opportunities, benchmark their clients, and enrich existing information. We are thankful that the ministry of Falls Creek continues forward to bless thousands of people in Oklahoma and across the region, for the glory of God.. plan providing for joint ownership and control. B. Lawrence, W. W. Phelan, W. C. Boone, and Hale V. It is not enough to know when and where churches and general bodies were organized and institutions were founded. The alleged rapist, Benjamin Petty, 37, pleaded guilty in January to first-degree rape, forcible sodomy and rape by instrumentation, The Oklahoman reported. during the Murrow." In 1831 Davis married a Creek woman, a Presbyterian, who had been educated at the Union Mission. We think of such laborers in the harvest field as G. W. Hicks, F. L. King, J. G. Brendel, E. C. Deyo, L. J. Dyke, Miss Mary Jayne, Robert Hamilton, W. A. Wilkins, H. F. Gilbert, H. H. Clouse, H. H. Treat, Miss Isabel Crawford, Miss Grace Clifford, and a host of others who laid the foundations. W. D. Moorer, an alumnus of Furman University Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020. Among the men whom McCoy met on his visit to the Creeks in 1831 was John Davis, a full-blood Creek Indian who had been a member of a Baptist church east of the Mississippi and had there been commended to exhort and had conducted missionary labors in the new home since October, 1829. It is a survey and interpretation of conditions, motives, spirit, methods, and achievements that, in any given period, have affected the welfare of humanity. However in 1891, on account of the educational policy adopted by the Creek Nation, the school passed from the control of Southern Baptists, and the Creek Nation refunded the Home Mission Board for money expended in the buildings and equipment. ", Early in 1877, John Mclntosh, a descendant of General William Mclntosh, went to the West as a missionary to the Plains Indians. They met again in 1877 and 1878. The committee met a similar committee from the Oklahoma Baptist State Convention, March 9, 1900, at Oklahoma City. The Indian said, "I thought you Christian people were weak, but you are too strong for me. It is the most elegant home for college women we have seen and is a monument to the faith and courage and labors of Mrs. Berta K. Spooner and her associates. the Choctaw and Chickasaw Women's Missionary Society was organized, the object being to enlist these Indian women in an In 1902 Dr. D. B. Ray, editor of the Baptist Flag of Buckner's mother, with tears running down her cheeks, said, "Go, my son, and the Lord be with you always. They overcame because of the Blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony. University re-opened in 1915. "Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, At the meeting of the Oklahoma Baptist Convention in Oklahoma City, October 31, 1899, L. L. Smith introduced the following resolution which was adopted: "Resolved, that the president of the Convention appoint a committee of five to confer with a like committee from other bodies looking to a unification of the Baptist forces of Oklahoma." Convention of the Indian Territory in 1903 and of the consolidated organization, the Baptist General Convention in 1906. In 1905 the Baptist General Convention of Indian Territory located an orphanage at Oklahoma City. The Creek council tried to enforce the law against praying. and plains, who has loved the Indians more than he loved his own life, - O. Lee Phelps. Looking to the future, we are continually working with churches to take every measure we can, to provide a safe environment where our campers can experience life with Jesus Christ. She was president of the first Women's Home Mission Society ever organized, and that society was quickly followed by the organization of others all through the Indian Territory. the Indians and to the foreign-speaking people, and as secretary of the B. Y. P. They were faithful to their commission. In 1923 it was taken over by the Education Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and is now under the control of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Under his management the Oklahoma Baptist Book Store has, more than one year, ranked third in sales H. F. Buckner came to the Creek Nation as a missionary and not as a teacher. It has done more harm than all other things. How sweet would be their children's fate, It remained closed until the fall of 1915 when it reopened in the present administration building which had been completed that summer. The victims attorneys claimed one church brought a felon who had been in prison for two counts of first-degree manslaughter, and another church brought a felon convicted of methamphetamine manufacturing and child endangerment. In 1898 the name was changed to "The Baptist General Association of ths Indian Territory," E. L. Compere was moderator. We quote the following tribute to Dr. Oklahoma Baptists have not neglected Benevolence. In his report to the Oklahoma Convention in 1914, Secretary Stalcup, in a fair and fraternal spirit which revealed the heart and mind of a Christian statesman, reviewed the issues involved and brought the recommendation of the state board that the Oklahoma Convention form single alignment with the Southern Baptist Convention in its work. The Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention of the Indian Territory was organized at Tahlequah, June 2, 1883. Sunday schools. The following corresponding secretaries have served since the consolidation to 1906: Mrs. W. B. Dicken, Mrs. C. A. Porterfield, Miss Sue Howell (1908-1918), Miss Pearl Todd, and Mrs. Berta K. Spooner who has served since 1921. Muskogee. We will be true to thee till death! By faith Isaac McCoy, by faith Jesse Bushyhead, by faith H. F. Buckner, by faith John Mclntosh, by faith Charles Journeycake, by faith J. S. Murrow, by faith A. C. Barone, by faith Billy McComb, by faith J. W. Solomon, by faith C. Stubblefield, by faith T. F. Cole, by faith Job Ingram. McCoy himself never lived in the Indian Territory and was not an official missionary to the Indians in the Territory. served in that capacity until August, 1916, when he resigned. Under his management the liabilities of the Home have been liquidated and the net assets increased from $43,000 to $219,000. L. B. Alder is doing efficient work as principal. was elected corresponding secretary. A. Scott, J. L. Kellar, J. M. Wiley, Dan and Charley Curb, W. R. Western Baptist was adopted as the organ of the Convention. A commission which reported to the 1907 Convention recommended that as soon as practicable a new Baptist University be established. It was at this meeting that Mrs. C. R. Blackall gathered the Choctaw women in a separate meeting under an arbor, and told them, through Mrs. Through the OneSource program, ministries can receive discounts on background checks. They did not have our advantages or our material resources and equipment, but they availed themselves of the resources of Omnipotence. They were loyal to the Word of God. Both friend and foe in all our strife: At the 1900 Convention the Signal was mentioned. He put the Indian over the yard fence and told him to go home. In 1903 the Convention of Oklahoma, the present state body, was organized, November 9, 1906. Adults who arrive without background checks will not be allowed to stay overnight, according to the website. This amount grew from year to year until 1920, the year following the 75 Country Estates pastor Steve Holland, who was called to the church following the alleged rape, told The Oklahoman, We have changed a tremendous amount of things in the way we go about training and preparing our volunteers to work with children and youth. One of the first children in the home was a baby found in a laundry wagon at Pauls Valley. At a prearranged time, the two conventions then met, formed a line, marched two-by-two to the Shawnee Opera House and formed the Baptist General Convention of the State of Oklahoma, representing 882 churches and 40,617 members at that time. It was agreed that the two conventions of Oklahoma would meet at Blackwell, October 5, 1900, which was done, resulting in unification. Dr. F. M. McConnell was elected his successor and served published at Okmulgee. we will love The victims attorney Bruce Robertson told The Oklahoman, We are glad the matter was resolved to the satisfaction of our client and her family, as they have suffered greatly from this event. He was an We here quote a description of that meeting written by Mrs. Blackall herself: "The following day another women's meeting was held, which many of the men attended, they having asked permission to be Convention, with the Sunday School Board and the American Baptist Publication Society co-operating. During the Convention year ending November, 1906, Rev. During the time of the persecution, a Negro Baptist preacher, Mundy Marshall, one day took a long knife away from an Indian, threw him on the ground and held him by the throat. The original body continued as "The Baptist Convention of Indian Territory.". and one for Indian Territory. I am grieved to the heart. The outstanding Baptist leader among the Cherokees was Jesse Bushyhead who came West with them in 1838-1839 over the "Trail of Tears." Another epochal Convention was held in 1906 when the Oklahoma Baptist State Convention and the Baptist General Convention of Indian Territory, both meeting in Shawnee, adjourned their separate sessions l(EZ|kY2l]* SZbFX:U`ag (Qb>6qANzJ-9e6 . began his service in that capacity, February 15, 1928. He The following brethren have served as If they, like them, could die for thee! U. In a letter written July 4, 1831, McCoy said, "I feel not a little ashamed of the Baptist denomination. Were still in heart and conscience free: and of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, was employed as Sunday school missionary by the Oklahoma Baptist State John Smith, which meets every year with an average attendance of some 1000. In 2019 the BGCO began operating under the name "Oklahoma Baptists," while retaining the legal name Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma. No more faithful service was ever rendered than the unselfish ministry of the teachers in these mission schools. Our Savior says 'Go ye into all the world' and it is as much my duty to give up my son as it is of any other mother. Falls Creek will not seek possession of, nor view individual reports, but the compliance form warrants that the checks were run. was opened August 8, 1909 and an addition was opened June 1, 1919. In 1876 was organized the General Association of Western Arkansas and the Indian Territory which affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Million Campaign, when $151,000 wits received for state missions. There were several people in that organization who would have preferred a Baptist church, but there was no Baptist minister to organize a Baptist church and to administer the ordinances. Southern Baptist State and Affiliated Conventions, Convention of Southern Baptist Churches in Puerto Rico, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baptist_General_Convention_of_Oklahoma&oldid=1099524606, Conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention, Baptist denominations established in the 20th century, Christian organizations established in 1906, 1906 establishments in Oklahoma Territory, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 July 2022, at 06:46. His permanent home after he located in the West. J. In 1893 the Convention adopted the following report concerning schools: The agitation for a Baptist University began in 1908. Baptist Messenger and continued as editor until 1928, through a period of nearly sixteen years. This fact explains some duplication in this chapter and preceding chapters. The Central Baptist Association, composed of churches in Oklahoma County and adjoining counties co-operated with the Home Mission Board: the Baptist District Association, covering the same territory, co-operated with the Home Mission Society. The resulting duplication extended into the associational organization. Governor Brown once said of whiskey: "Whiskey is the greatest evil ever Invented by the devil. It is not our purpose here, however, to trace the early mission schools although we must mention the fruitful labors of Ramsay Potts among the Choctaws. Two Negro slaves, Jacob and Jack, were carrying on the work at Ebenezer. Site by Mere. 2022 Nonprofit Metrics LLCTerms of Service and Privacy Policy. They saw our day of opportunities and were glad. among the Indians. holy faith! In 1820 the United Foreign Mission Society had started work among the Osages at Union Station, about twenty-five miles north of Fort Gibson. There is no record of other meetings until 1881 when they were reorganized.