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The Story Of Negro Disciples In Mississippi, Mrs. Charles C. Mosley Jan 1950

The Story Of Negro Disciples In Mississippi, Mrs. Charles C. Mosley

Stone-Campbell Movement Monographs

The Story of Negro Disciples in Mississippi

Mrs. Mosley, a graduate of Jarvis Christian College, Hawkins, Texas, briefly documents the history of a few of the earliest African American congregations in Mississippi.

She also provides details about the 1887 founding of the Mississippi State Convention. This was an African American convention, with African American leaders.

The Mississippi Christian Missionary Convention began in 1884. William Ramey, an African American preacher from Hemingway, Carroll County, attended the inaugural meeting of the MCMC at Winona, Mississippi.


Minutes 34th Annual National Christian Missionary Convention Of The Disciples Of Christ, R L. Saunders Jan 1950

Minutes 34th Annual National Christian Missionary Convention Of The Disciples Of Christ, R L. Saunders

National Christian Missionary Convention Minutes

Minutes 34th Annual National Missionary Convention of the Disciples of Christ. August 22 - 27, 1950. Held with Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, 978 Mississippi Blvd., Memphis, Tennessee. B. T. Hunt, Pastor; R. H. Davis, President, National Christian Missionary Convention; R. L. Saunders, Secretary, National Christian Missionary Convention.


Discipliana Vol-10-Nos-1-4-April-1950-January-1951, Claude E. Spencer Jan 1950

Discipliana Vol-10-Nos-1-4-April-1950-January-1951, Claude E. Spencer

Discipliana - Archival Issues

Discipliana Vol-10-Nos-1-4-April-1950-January-1951


Christian Plea, January - December 1950 (Volume 41 [Sic], Numbers 12 - 23), Lloyd L. Dickerson, D. W. Heath Jan 1950

Christian Plea, January - December 1950 (Volume 41 [Sic], Numbers 12 - 23), Lloyd L. Dickerson, D. W. Heath

Christian Plea

Christian Plea, January - December 1950 (Volume 41 [sic], Numbers 12 - 23)

The July issue (pages, 1, 3) has the first mention of plans to purchase a home near Butler University for African American students.

B. T. Hunt is elected President of the National Convention, replacing R. H. Davis, pastor of the Indiana Church, Chicago, Illinois. (September issue, page 1.)

An unsubscribed article on the Preacher Shortage notes that the closing of Louisville Christian Bible School, with its emphasis on the enlistment and training of preachers, has contributed to the shortage. (December issue, pages 2, 3.)