{"id":1635,"date":"2018-06-12T22:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=1635"},"modified":"2024-10-08T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:04:10","slug":"california-state-minutes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=1635","title":{"rendered":"California State Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A Brief History of the California State Association<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jack Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To most Free Will Baptists, California retains some of its \u201c49\u2019er\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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State Association Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1945 California State Association<\/a>
1946 California State Association<\/a>
1947 California State Association<\/a>
1948 California State Association<\/a>
1949 California State Association<\/a>
1950 California State Association<\/a>
1951 California State Association<\/a>
1952 California State Association<\/a>
1953 California State Association<\/a>
1954 California State Association<\/a>
1955 California State Association<\/a>
1956 California State Association<\/a>
1957 California State Association<\/a>
1958 California State Association<\/a>
1959 California State Association<\/a>
1960 California State Association<\/a>
1961 California State Association<\/a>
1962 California State Association<\/a>
1963 California State Association<\/a>
1964 California State Association<\/a>
1965 California State Association<\/a>
1966 California State Association<\/a>
1967 California State Association<\/a>
1968 California State Association<\/a>
1969 California State Association<\/a>
1970 California State Association<\/a>
1971 California State Association<\/a>
1972 California State Association<\/a>
1973 California State Association<\/a>
1974 California State Association<\/a>
1975 California State Association<\/a>
1976 California State Association<\/a>
1977 California State Association<\/a>
1978 California State Association<\/a>
1979 California State Association<\/a>
1980 California State Association<\/a>
1981 California State Association<\/a>
1982 California State Association<\/a>
1983 California State Association<\/a>
1984 California State Association<\/a>
1985 California State Association<\/a>
1986 California State Association<\/a>
1987 California State Association<\/a>
1990 California State Association<\/a>
2020 California State Association<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Brief History of the California State Association By Jack Williams To most Free Will Baptists, California retains some of its \u201c49\u2019er\u201d 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\u2026   State Association Minutes 1945 California State Association1946 California State Association1947 California State Association1948 California State Association1949 California State Association1950 California State Association1951 California State Association1952 California State Association1953 California State Association1954 California State Association1955 California State Association1956 California State Association1957 California State Association1958 California State Association1959 California State Association1960 California State Association1961 California State Association1962 California State Association1963 California State Association1964 California State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":1323,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1635","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions\/3672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}