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Fourche Valley Baptist Association
Fourche Valley Baptist Association
The Fourche Valley Baptist Association was organized in 1887. It later became the Perry County Baptist Association, and still later, the Conway-Perry County Association.
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Gainesville Missionary Baptist Association
Gainesville Missionary Baptist Association
The Gainesville Baptist Association dates itself from 1870, when it reorganized following the difficult days of Reconstruction. The association had previously been called the Bethlehem United Baptist Association, organized in 1853. By 1872 it included thirteen churches: Salem, Bethlehem, Fairview, New Hope, Providence, Friendship, New Hurricane, Spring Grove, Hopewell, Pleasant Valley, Liberty, Concord, and Corinthian; by 1878, six other church had joined. In 1925 Gainesville Association had forty-two churches with approximately 4,000 members.
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Harmony Baptist Association
Harmony Baptist Association
Harmony Baptist Association held its first annual session in 1918 at Star City. Member churches included Dumas; Hickory Grove; and Star City; as well as Beech Street, First Baptist, Hazel Street, and Ohio Street, all of Pine Bluff. The churches had previously been a part of the Friendship Association.
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Howard County Baptist Association
Howard County Baptist Association
Howard County Baptist Association was organized in 1893 at Amity Church (Howard County) by Amity, Antioch, Columbus, Cedar Hill, County Line, Center Point, Fellowship, Holly Creek, Liberty, Mine Creek, Mineral Springs, Mount Carmel, New Home, Pleasant Valley, Sweet Home, Sulphur Spring, Unity, Yellow Creek, and Zion Baptist churches. A.J. Robbins served as the first moderator, with R.D. Neal as clerk.
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Liberty Baptist Association
Liberty Baptist Association
Liberty Baptist Association was organized in 1845, primarily by churches that had previously belonged to the Saline Association. By 1850 there were at least twenty-four member churches. Among the association’s early leaders were Jesse Hartwell, S.T. Cobb, G. Norsworthy, T.H. Compere, John Aaron, Porter Clay (brother of Henry Clay), George Everett, and R.A. Hargis.
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Mount Vernon Baptist Association
Mount Vernon Baptist Association
Mount Vernon Baptist Association was organized at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in St. Francis County on September 3, 1853, by six churches: Mount Vernon, New Hope, Helena, Ash Grove, Bible Union, and Liberty. M.W. Izard served as moderator, with T.S.N. King as clerk. The association grew quickly, and by 1861 included twenty-five churches.
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Mt. Zion Association of Missionary Baptists
Mount Zion Baptist Association
Mount Zion Baptist Association was organized in 1852 at Mount Zion Baptist Church in Greene County. It began with six churches—Mount Zion, Macedonia, Lebanon, New Hope, Philadelphia, and Bethabara---and was named for the association’s largest. By 1855, the Mount Zion Association included ten member churches, and by 1870, twenty-two.
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Ouachita Baptist Association
Ouachita Baptist Association
Ouachita Baptist Association was organized in 1867. By 1875, it had a total of fourteen member churches. Early leaders included E.L. Compere, John J. Egger, Levi Johnson, J.M. Green, and W.W. McDaniel.
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Pulaski County Baptist Association
Pulaski County Baptist Association
Pulaski County Baptist Association was organized at Little Rock Second Baptist Church in 1916 by Immanuel, First, Second, Third, Pulaski Heights, Wright Avenue, and Maple Street churches of Little Rock; First, Calvary, Levy, and Baring Cross of Argenta (now North Little Rock); and Jacksonville, Zion Hill, Pine Grove, and Ironton, from the surrounding area. M.J. Manning served as the first moderator, with E.J.A. McKinney as clerk.
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Red River Baptist Association
Red River Association
One of Arkansas’s oldest associations, the Red River Baptist Association was tentatively organized at Tulip, Dallas County, in September of 1847, and then permanently established in September of 1848 at the Mount Zion Church, near Washington in Hempstead County. Created by churches that had been a part of the Saline Association, the association’s first members were Mine Creek (now Nashville), Mount Zion, Pleasant Hill (Columbia County), Mount Bethel (Clark County), and Pleasant Hill (Clark County). Just four years after Red River Association’s organization, it had grown to include nineteen churches. Pioneer preachers included D.M. Cochran, M.L. Langley, G.W. Wells, John Gunter, D.S. Williams, Absalom Horn, Samuel Stevenson, and S.B. Cornelius. The Red River Association grew, and through the years numerous other associations have been established from within its original territory.
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Saline Regular Baptist Association
Saline Regular Baptist Association
Saline Regular Baptist Association was organized in 1836 at Spring Creek Church near Benton, Saline County. Churches represented were Spring Creek, Saline, and Union, of Saline County; Mount Gilead of Hot Spring County; Mount Bethel of Clark County; and Mount Olive of Hempstead County. The association grew to be quite large: by 1909, it included fifty-two churches with membership totaling about 4,000.
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