The Rev. Melvin Carter officiated at the ceremony in Slaughter Chapel of the First Baptist Church.

The Granville Street Baptist Church ( now First Baptist Church ( Halifax )) was an instrumental and determining factor in the founding of the University.

Many individuals who have made significant contributions to Acadia University, including the first president John Pryor, were members of the First Baptist Church Halifax congregation.

" One of the Baptist founders, John Gano, had also been the founding minister of the First Baptist Church in the City of New York.

Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.

* First Baptist Church was designed by Harry Weese without windows and was dedicated in 1965.

Moreover, Baptist " confessions of faith " have often had a clause such as this from the First London ( Particular ) Baptist Confession ( Revised edition, 1646 ):

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.

Others attended the funeral at Clarksville's First Baptist Church.

Williams started the first Baptist church in America, the First Baptist Church of Providence.

First Baptist Church in America.

Thus was constituted a church which still survives as the First Baptist Church in America.

A few years later, John Clarke, Williams ’ compatriot in the cause of religious freedom in the New World, established the First Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island.

When some other important feast occurs on a weekday, such as the First and Second Finding of the Head of John the Baptist ( February 24 ), the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste ( March 9 ), etc., it is usually combined with the Lenten service, and wine and oil are allowed at the meal.

Conversions and congregations started with the First Great Awakening, resulting in Baptist and Methodist preachers being authorized among slaves and free blacks more than a decade before 1800.

His funeral was held in the First Baptist Church in America in the College Hill section of Providence, Rhode Island ; late in life, he had joined the Foursquare evangelical Christian community.

After lying in state in the rotunda of the State House in Columbia, his body was carried by a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, where then-Senator Joe Biden delivered a eulogy, and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he was interred.

The Memphis area is home to many private, college-prep schools: Briarcrest Christian School ( co-ed ), Christian Brothers High School ( boys ), Evangelical Christian School ( co-ed ), First Assembly Christian School ( co-ed ), Hutchison School ( girls ), Lausanne Collegiate School ( co-ed ), Memphis University School ( boys ), Saint Benedict at Auburndale ( co-ed ), St. George's Independent School ( co-ed ), St. Agnes Academy ( girls ), Bishop Byrne Middle and High School ( co-ed ), Immaculate Conception Cathedral School ( girls ), St. Mary's Episcopal School ( girls ), and Elliston Baptist Academy ( co-ed ).

Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

Of particular meaning to the Charles MacWhorter family, 3181 SW 24th Ter., will be the Family Dedication Service planned for 10:50 a.m. Sunday at First Christian Church.

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

Athanasius ' first problem lay with the Meletians, who had failed to abide by the terms of the decision made at the First Council of Nicaea which had hoped to reunite them with the Church.

Church members believe that Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a First Vision | visitation from God the Father and Jesus | Jesus Christ.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is widely known for its publications, especially The Christian Science Monitor, a daily newspaper published internationally in print and on the Internet.

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the legal title of The Mother Church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science Church.

Branch churches of The Mother Church may take the title of First Church of Christ, Scientist ; Second ; but the article The must not be used, presumably to concede the primacy of the Boston Mother Church.

The Lesson, as it is informally called, is compiled by a committee at The Mother Church, and is usually made up of six sections, each of which consists of passages from the Bible ( read by the Second Reader ) and passages from Science and Health ( read by the First Reader ).

* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.

* Lindbergh & America First with cartoons & graphics & audio speeches

Previous editions of War and Remembrance, The Bloodstone Hunt, Operation Rebirth, Man Without a Country, and To Serve and Protect were released prior to new 2010 editions leading up to the Captain America: The First Avenger feature film.

The Central Pacific Railroad ( CPRR ) is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the " First Transcontinental Railroad " in North America.

On September 9, 2010, Judge Virginia A. Phillips ruled in Log Cabin Republicans v. United States of America that the ban on service by openly gay servicemembers was an unconstitutional violation of the First and Fifth Amendments.

The First National Exhibitors ' Circuit was founded in 1917 by the merger of 26 of the biggest first run cinema chains in the United States of America, eventually controlling over 600 cinemas, more than 200 of them so-called " first run " houses ( as opposed to the " second run " neighborhood theaters to which films moved when their first run boxoffice receipts dwindled ).

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

The increased tribute demand was refused, a United States of America naval force blockaded Tripoli, and the First Barbary War continued on until 3 June 1805 resulting in the repatriation of 300 US sailors and the first time the US flag had been raised in victory on foreign soil.

First Anglican / Episcopalian church service in North America.

* 1826 – Varina Davis, American author, First Lady of the Confederate States of America ( d. 1906 )

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.

Through vigorous missionary activity Methodism spread throughout the British Empire and, mostly through Whitefield's preaching during what historians call the First Great Awakening, colonial America.

* 1860 – First The Open Championship ( referred to in North America as the British Open ).

OSS: The Secret History of America ’ s First Central Intelligence Agency ( Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972 ; Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2005 )

The Office of Strategic Services: America ’ s First Intelligence Agency ( Washington, D. C .: Central Intelligence Agency, 2001 )

Also in 2002, Soderbergh was elected First Vice President of the Directors Guild of America.

Reports that the Constitution Party discussed a merger between several third parties such as the Reform Party, Independent American Party, American Independent Party, and the America First Party have been refuted by other accounts of the events.

* America First Party, The American Party, American Heritage Party, Independent American Party-U. S. political parties with similar positions

In 1871 the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U. S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the ethnic working class in America.

* Vibranium is named on-screen in the feature film Captain America: The First Avenger, and is shown to exist in the 1940s.

* April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.

* September 11 – WWII: Charles Lindbergh, at an America First Committee rally in Des Moines, Iowa, accuses " the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration " of leading the United States toward war.

** First case reports in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of the Great Epizootic of 1872 ( equine influenza, or the " horse flu ") which will substantially disrupt life in North America by mid-December.

* May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by driving of the " golden spike ".