Richard Duane Warren is an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder of Saddleback Church,an evangelical Baptist megachurch in Lake Forest,California.
The First Baptist Church of Hammond is a fundamental Independent Baptist church in Hammond,Indiana. It is the largest church in the state of Indiana,and in 2007 was the 20th largest in the United States. Though founded in 1887 by Allen Hill,it was under Jack Hyles' leadership from 1959–2001 when it became one of the megachurches in the United States and during the 1970s had the highest Sunday school attendance of any church in the world. In 1990,the church had a weekly attendance of 20,000. It also operates Hyles-Anderson College,a non-accredited institution established for the training of pastors and missionaries,and two K-12 schools,called City Baptist Schools and Hammond Baptist Schools. John Wilkerson is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church.
Charles Joseph Mahaney,commonly known as C.J.,is an American Christian minister. He is the senior pastor at Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville,and was formerly president of Sovereign Grace Ministries,now known as Sovereign Grace Churches,a network formed to establish and support local churches. He was one of the founding pastors and leaders of Covenant Life Church,in Gaithersburg,Maryland. Under Mahaney's leadership,Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville is a member of Sovereign Grace Churches and works with the Southern Baptist Convention for training and Christian mission work.
Heather R. Mizeur is an American politician who served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from January 10,2007 to January 14,2015,representing the 20th district in Montgomery County,Maryland. She was a candidate for governor of Maryland in the 2014 election but lost the Democratic primary to Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown. In 2022,she unsuccessfully ran for the United States House of Representatives in Maryland's 1st congressional district,challenging incumbent U.S. Representative Andy Harris. She lost the general election to Harris by 11 points.
Gardner Calvin Taylor was an American Baptist preacher. He became known as "the dean of American preaching".
Highview Baptist Church is a Baptist multi-site megachurch based in Louisville,Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and Southern Baptist Convention. Aaron Harvie is currently the church's senior pastor.
Jack Graham is the pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano,Texas.
Towson United Methodist Church is a large United Methodist Church in the historic Hampton subdivision of Towson,a suburb in Baltimore County,Maryland. Its past,rooted in 19th-century America and subsequent growth in the two centuries since then,has closely paralleled the nation's political and sociological trends. It was a congregation split asunder in 1861 on the eve of the American Civil War in a border state of divided loyalties,which eventually reunited and built a church in the post–World War II era of the 1950s,a time of reconciliation and rapid growth by mainline Protestant denominations,especially in the more affluent suburbs.
Larry Stevens Furtick Jr. is an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor,author,and songwriter of Elevation Worship. He is the founder and senior pastor of Elevation Church,based in Charlotte,North Carolina.
Reverend Vernon Nathaniel Dobson was a Baptist minister and civil rights activist in Baltimore,Maryland.
Morris H. Chapman was elected president and chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee on October 1,1992. In September 2009 he announced that he would retire from this position effective September 30,2010.
Bob Merritt is the retired senior pastor of Eagle Brook Church in suburban Minneapolis-St. Paul,Minnesota,USA,a megachurch.
David Joseph Platt is an American evangelical Baptist pastor. He was senior pastor at the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham,Alabama,from 2006 to 2014. At the time he was the youngest megachurch pastor in the United States. From 2014 to 2017,Platt was president of the International Mission Board. He became pastor-teacher at McLean Bible Church in 2017. He is the author of the 2010 New York Times Best Seller Radical:Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream.
The Salem Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located at 752 E 114th Street in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago,Illinois. The senior pastor is Charlie Dates.
Mt. Ennon Baptist Church is a Baptist megachurch located in Clinton,Maryland. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention,USA.
The 2014 Maryland gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Maryland. Incumbent Democratic governor Martin O'Malley was term-limited and could not run for re-election to a third consecutive term.
Robert James Jeffress Jr. is an American Southern Baptist pastor,author,radio host,and televangelist. He is the senior pastor of the 14,000-member First Baptist Church,a megachurch in Dallas,Texas,and is a Fox News Contributor. His sermons are broadcast on the television and radio program Pathway to Victory,which is broadcast on more than 1,200 television stations in the United States and 28 other countries,and is heard on 900 stations and broadcast live in 195 countries.
Question 6 is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by 52.4% of voters on November 6,2012,and thereafter went into effect on January 1,2013.
First Baptist Church of Glenarden International or FBCG is a Baptist Evangelical megachurch located in Upper Marlboro,Maryland. It is affiliated with Converge. Weekly church attendance was 12,000 people in 2022. The senior pastor is John K. Jenkins Sr. It is one of the largest,if not the largest church in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
Jamila Jaye Woods is an American pastor and politician who is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for District 26 in Prince George's County,Maryland.
