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The church offers space for other congregations to meet, including Chinese and Korean congregations, and space and support for community ministries. In [[2001]]-[[2002]], Southside Baptist provided worship space to [[Temple Emanu-el]] while its facility was being renovated. Currently Southside Baptist is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Alabama State Baptist Convention. The SBC and ASBC affiliations, however, are very nominal at this point given the congregation's stances mentioned above. | The church offers space for other congregations to meet, including Chinese and Korean congregations, and space and support for community ministries. In [[2001]]-[[2002]], Southside Baptist provided worship space to [[Temple Emanu-el]] while its facility was being renovated. Currently Southside Baptist is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Alabama State Baptist Convention. The SBC and ASBC affiliations, however, are very nominal at this point given the congregation's stances mentioned above. | ||
Pastors | ==Pastors== | ||
* [[A.C. Davidson]] ([[1898]]–[[1906]]) | |||
*A.C. Davidson (1898 | * [[James E. Dillard]] ([[1918]]–[[1936]]) | ||
*James E. Dillard (1918 | * [[James Buchanan]] ([[1937]]–[[1957]]) | ||
*James Buchanan (1937 | * [[Lamar Jackson]] | ||
*Lamar Jackson | * [[Dale Chambliss]] (–[[1996]]) | ||
*Dale Chambliss | * [[J. Steven Jones]] ([[1999]]–present) | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 15:47, 12 April 2010
Southside Baptist Church is a church located at the intersection of 11th Avenue and 19th Street South in Five Points South. Formed in 1886, the church has been one of the largest and most influential churches in the Alabama Baptist State Convention, though this has changed in recent times.
Originally, the church worshiped in two buildings in Birmingham's Southside. After a fire destroyed its second sanctuary in 1906, the church made plans and built its current Greek Revival building, completed in 1911. The church built an education building in the 1920s. During much of the early 20th century, Southside contributed a number of leaders to local and state Baptist causes.
The church was the first church in Alabama to televise a worship service, in 1950.
As the demographics in Birmingham changed around the church, Southside remained dedicated to ministering to the increasingly diverse population of the neighborhood rather than moving to a suburb of Birmingham (as did, for example, First Baptist Church of Birmingham, formerly located downtown). A concurrent change also occurred in theology, as it began to distance itself from the fundamentalist doctrine and morality of almost all the Birmingham area's other Southern Baptist congregations, staunchly professing support for freedom of thought and social action.
The church offers space for other congregations to meet, including Chinese and Korean congregations, and space and support for community ministries. In 2001-2002, Southside Baptist provided worship space to Temple Emanu-el while its facility was being renovated. Currently Southside Baptist is affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Alabama State Baptist Convention. The SBC and ASBC affiliations, however, are very nominal at this point given the congregation's stances mentioned above.
Pastors
- A.C. Davidson (1898–1906)
- James E. Dillard (1918–1936)
- James Buchanan (1937–1957)
- Lamar Jackson
- Dale Chambliss (–1996)
- J. Steven Jones (1999–present)
External links
- Southside Baptist website
References
- Allen, Lee. Southside Baptist Church: A Centennial History. A.H. Cather Publishing, 1996.
- Flynt, Wayne. Alabama Baptists: Southern Baptists in the Heart of Dixie. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.