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Article: Nat'l Baptist Convention pres. joins holiday drive here
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- December 23, 1994
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A.J.W. James
Philadelphia Tribune, The
12-23-1994
Nat'l Baptist Convention pres. joins holiday drive here.
By A.J.W. James
Tribune Staff
Dr. Henry J. Lyons, the newly elected president of the 8.9 million member National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., pastor of the Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, Fla., and president of the Florida General Baptist Convention, recently made his first visit to Philadelphia and vicinity since his election in September.
Lyons was keynote preacher for the 71st Annual Christmas Drive of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention (NBC), which took place for two days at Monumental Baptist Church, 50th and Locust streets. The drive's ...