A Brief History of the California State Association
By Jack Williams
To most Free Will Baptists, California retains some of its “49’er” image. It is still the golden state that is a long, long way from anywhere else. That very isolation has both stymied growth and strengthened the camaraderie of California Free Will Baptists. They have had to pull together because the nearest large concentration of Free Will Baptists is in western Oklahoma, some 1,500 miles distant.
The Free Will Baptist influence in California has deeper roots than the present state association reflects. As early as 1876, the northern Free Will Baptists (the Randall movement) established a church in San Francisco. No fewer than six Free Will Baptist churches flourished in the Bay Area. In 1886, a mission was formed in Oakland with Professor Meads of Bates Theological School as superintendent (according to Million and Barrett, in Brief History of the Liberal Baptist People). Read more…
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