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Article: Pilgrims through the years: the bicentennial of First Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia: an overview.
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- Baptist History and Heritage
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Christian in commitment, Baptist by choice, Southern Baptist through historical circumstances, First Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, will celebrate two hundred years of pilgrimage history on the twenty-sixth day of November, two thousand. (1) This pilgrimage in heritage and hope is a continuing process, because the pilgrim church and people never finally arrive; they are always on the road.
The congregation under consideration is only one of over 2 million Christian congregations with over 1.5 billion members in over 20,000 denominations worldwide. Though Baptist, the congregation is associated with only one of over fifty different Baptist denominations in ...