This mass baptism was the first in a series that led to the founding of Pottstown’s First Baptist Church. It was the result of the inspirational preaching of the Rev. David Jefferis, the pastor ...

John Wilkerson, who has been the pastor of First Baptist Church of Long Beach, Calif., since June 4, 2000, will speak to the Hammond congregation Wednesday. The church is expected to vote on ...

In Hammond, just over the state line in Indiana ... that are part of the seven-square-block campus of the First Baptist Church of Hammond. In all, the church owns about 20 buildings along State ...

An introduction to Baptist churches ... of his self-administered baptism. In 1612 Helwys and others returned to England to establish the first Baptist Church on English soil.