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Article: Baptist beginnings in the Pacific Northwest.
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- Baptist History and Heritage
- Article date:
- June 22, 2004
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Baptists were mired in numerous controversial issues during the 1840s. Baptist pioneers who settled in the Pacific Northwest during this time carried these contentions with them, flavoring a land of promise with viewpoints still recognizable today.
This paper summarizes the first fifty years of Baptist origins in the Northwest, beginning with the formation of the first Baptist church in 1844 to the rejection of one Baptist organization's request for affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in 1894.
The Pioneers
The great migration of 1843 brought pioneers with their covered wagons from the Mississippi Valley to the end of the ...