{"id":1635,"date":"2018-06-12T22:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=1635"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T00:28:11","slug":"california-state-minutes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=1635","title":{"rendered":"California State Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Brief History of the California State Association<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Jack Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To most Free Will Baptists, California retains some of its&nbsp;\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<p>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). <a href=\"http:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?page_id=1324\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State Association Minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1945California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1945 California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1946California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1946\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1947California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1947\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1948California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1948\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1949California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1949\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1950California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1950\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1951California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1951\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1952California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1952\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1953California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1953\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1954California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1954\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1955California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1955\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1956California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1956\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1957California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1957\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1958California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1958\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1959California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1959\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1960California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1960\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1961California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1961\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1962California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1962\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1963California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1963\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1964California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1964\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1965California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1965\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1966California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1966\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1967California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1967\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1968California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1968\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1969California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1969\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1970California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1970\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1971California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1971\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1972California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1972\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1973California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1973\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1974California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1974\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1975California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1975\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1976California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1976\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1977California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1977\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1978California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1978\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1979California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1979\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1980California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1980\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1981California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1981\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1982California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1982\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1983California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1983\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1984California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1984\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1985California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1985\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1986California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1986\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1987California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1987\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/1990California.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1990\u00a0California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/2020California.pdf\">2020 California State Association<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onemag.org\/california\/2020California.pdf\">2025 California State Association<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have additional state or local&nbsp;minutes to contribute to the Free Will Baptist minutes&nbsp;collection, please contact the Historical Commission&nbsp;using the form below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"vscf\" class=\"vscf-shortcode\"><form name=\"vscf_1635\" id=\"vscf-form\" method=\"post\">\r\n\t<div class=\"form-group vscf-name-group\">\r\n\t\t<label for=\"vscf_name\" class=\"vscf-label\">Name <\/label>\r\n\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"vscf_name_1635\" id=\"vscf_name\"  class=\"form-control\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" minlength=\"2\" maxlength=\"100\" aria-required=\"true\" 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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 &nbsp; State Association Minutes 1945 California State Association1946\u00a0California State Association1947\u00a0California State Association1948\u00a0California State Association1949\u00a0California State Association1950\u00a0California State Association1951\u00a0California State Association1952\u00a0California State Association1953\u00a0California State Association1954\u00a0California State Association1955\u00a0California State Association1956\u00a0California State Association1957\u00a0California State Association1958\u00a0California State Association1959\u00a0California State Association1960\u00a0California State Association1961\u00a0California State Association1962\u00a0California State Association1963\u00a0California State Association1964\u00a0California State [&hellip;]<\/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":3,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1635\/revisions\/4556"}],"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}]}}