This piece contains analysis of the 2023 Annual Church Profile (ACP). The 2024 ACP data will be released later this year.

Kentucky Baptists are celebrating a surge in baptisms with 12,654 reported during the past reporting year (ending March 15).

Christ's Baptism 1223 All the Old Covenant prefigurations find their fulfillment in Christ Jesus. He begins his public life after having himself baptized by St. John the Baptist in the Jordan.

to make oneself pure ... to be right with God. John the Baptist, of course, is known for having practiced baptism. But then, so did lots of other people. We hear of other groups around this time ...

In the colonies, Baptist rejection of infant baptism was considered abhorrent by the established churches. To Anglicans, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians, this deviation from tradition was ...

Churches that do not practice infant baptism may have a dedication service instead. Baptist and Pentecostal churches baptise people when they are adults and able to decide for themselves whether ...

Baptist churches in Warren and Youngstown took part in the Lott Carey foreign missions convention that took place March 22 and 23 in Youngstown and Warren. Second Baptist Church in Warren and New ...

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Covid hurt a lot of churches, and so we’re working on getting people back in, but we’re doing OK.” Church leaders from Holy Virgin Ukranian Orthodox Church in Arnold, St. John the Baptist ...