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Mississippi College Hosts Workshop for Baptist Churches Feb. 6


Leaders from Mississippi Baptist churches marking major milestones will gather for a Feb. 6 workshop on the Mississippi College campus in Clinton.

Speakers will include: MC history professor Kirk Ford, retired MC administrator Ed McMillan, and retired professor Richard Ethridge of East Central Community College. McMillan serves as executive secretary of the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission, the event sponsor.

Ford will discuss the nuts and bolts of writing church history. He's penned a history of Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison. A graduate of William Carey University, Ford received his master's and doctorate at the University of Southern Mississippi. He joined the MC faculty in 1980.

The event will help churches that will celebrate special anniversaries in 2010, 2011 and 2012, McMillan said. About 125 participants are expected. They are coming from churches statewide - from Pascagoula on the Gulf Coast to East Mississippi to North Mississippi.

Some of the churches represented at the MC workshop will be a century old. In 2010, two of the Baptist churches will be 200 years old - or seven years older than the state of Mississippi, noted McMillan, a longtime MC history professor.

The Feb. 6 event at Anderson Hall of the B.C. Rogers Student Center begins with registration at 9 a.m. and wraps up around 2:45 p.m. The deadline for reservations is Monday Feb. 1. Similar Baptist workshops were first held in the 1990s. This is the seventh in the series.

The Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission offices and library holdings are housed at the Leland Speed Library on the Mississippi College campus.

For more information, contact Edward McMillan at emcmilla@mc.edu or by phone at 601.925.3497.