Baptist Ministers of Bethel Association

Baptist Ministers of Bethel Association 1833-1932

Source: Donna Eldridge

The Bethel Association and its History could not have existed had it not been for the great men, the Ministers of the Gospel in God's plan, who carried on this work from the beginning until the present. And it is these men whose lives have been an example and whose activities in the organization of the churches and the preaching of the Gospel have been a light by night and a pillow of cloud by day, leading the people in the right direction and pointing them the way of Eternal Life, whose names we now wish to commemorate and whose lives we wish to honor as their names are here recorded. The names of the ministers appearing in the Bethel Association are those who on Saturday, November 23rd. 1833 met at Richland Church, Stewart County, and there organized this great Association: Andrew Hood, Anderson Smith, Joseph Ross, and Brother Stewart.

The Ministers who were the first pastors of the churches of the new Association at and from its organization were John Rushing, Cater A. Parker, Peter Eldridge, Henry Dykes, Joshua Mercer and Travis Everitt. These were the men who were entrusted with the building and the moulding of this, the Bethel Association in the beginning.

Those who served with the above named and who soon afterwards came into the Association prior to 1848 and those who continued to come and serve are herewith given: J. S. Lunsford, J. J. Battle, Jonathan Davis, S. English, S. Mauk, L. Lunder, B. Goss, R. Y. Loftin, J. Strafford, J. Lumpkin, Thomas Muse, John G. Gilbert, R. Warner, Stephen Rowe, L. B. Mercer, J. N. Martin, John Matthews, C. Tharpe, James Clark, Joel W. Perry, Richard Thornton, Isaac Osteen, William P. Carter, William L. Crawford, J. S. McJurkin, Lewis Everingham, George W. Key, Random Warner, David Cox, Theo Pierce, J. Ware, W. Page, William Henderson, Jesse M. Davis, Holmes Steel, J. Buys, W. H. Wade, F. S. Seig, E. T. Winkler, Willilam B. Burton.

A complete list of the Ministers in the Association in 1848 are as follows:

The New ministers are here listed as they came into the Association:

(page 133-137)

From "History of Bethel Association Including Centennial Meeting", by Alexander Lee Miller.
Centennial meeting held with Baptist church at Edison, Georgia, October 25, 26, 27, 1932
A. L. Miller, Edison, Ga., Moderator.
W. H. Joyner, Coleman, Ga., Clerk

Compiled and Edited by Alexander Lee Miller
Moderator of Association 1909 - 1934

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