Baptist Home Of Brooklyn Ny history

By 1825 the Hamilton Missionary Society became the Baptist Missionary Convention of the State of New York, which continued under that name until 1957 (when it became the New York State Baptist Convention), and with which the New York Baptist Association affiliated. It is important to note the founding upstate in 1807 of what soon became the Hamilton Baptist Missionary Society.

One of those is The American Baptist Home Mission Society, established in New York City in 1832 to preach the gospel, establish churches and support ministry among the unchurched and destitute.

By 1836, 150 home missionaries were at work in 14 states, two territories and two provinces.

Perhaps it was undercut by the organization in 1841 of the New York Baptist Domestic Society of the City of New York – an illustration of the way societies was precipitated around various causes, all drawing on the same basic constituencies.

Concord Church was founded in the living room of John and Hagar Washington on May 18, 1847.

His success was far greater than he expected, for soon the foundation was built and the cornerstone laid with appropriate exercises and the house was dedicated in 1848.”

Black updated his narrative after he was called to Concord in 1851.

“At a meeting of the church help September 28, 1863, it was, on motion, resolved to call Brother William T. Dixon, then resident in the Eastern District, to take charge of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ.

The stones, inscribed with the words: “Erected 1869,” “College of St John the Baptist,” and “Lewis Avenue,” are artifacts from a July 25, 1869, cornerstone-laying ceremony for what would become St John’s University.

A major step towards improvement occurred in 1870 when the NYBA consolidated with HRBA South as the Southern New York Association, intensified as immigrants poured in, necessitated the organization of the societies for specialized tasks.

In response, the Women’s Baptist Home Mission Society (WBHMS), based in Chicago, was founded in 1877, and Joanna P. Moore became its first fully commissioned missionary.

A parallel development had been the forming of a Brooklyn Baptist Church Extension Society in 1886; in 20 years its work was extended to Queens.

The Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York)Monday, May 17, 1897, p3.

The two women’s societies consolidated their work in 1909 under the name Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society.

Our present 120 bed facility located on the edge of the historic and beautiful village of Rhinebeck, NY opened in 1977.

On April 27, 2010, National Ministries reclaimed the organization’s historic names and began carrying out its ministries in the name of Jesus Christ as American Baptist Home Mission Societies.