Stories tagged with: world war i

• Baptist workers join those remembering the Holocaust

  by Kelvin Joseph, posted Monday, January 27, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Photo by Kelvin Joseph

  KRAKÓW, Poland (BP) -- The twisting of my gut was expected, but it was much deeper than I had imagined. Standing in the place where Nazi Germans murdered more than a million Jews and thousands of other people deemed undesirable, I could not escape the feeling. This wave of emotion flooded over me as I walked through the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, near Kraków, Poland, the city my wife and I have moved to in order to serve with the IMB.

  January 27, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary celebration of the day when the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in January 1945. Read More

• Longtime missionary to Japan Ralph Calcote, 95, dies

  by Mary Jane Welch, posted Thursday, June 20, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  WESSON, Miss. (BP) -- Every week a small group of World War II and Korea veterans meet in Wesson, Miss., to drink coffee, maybe eat lunch, swap stories and remember comrades who died. But Ralph Calcote no longer joins the Greatest Generation Coffee Club, having died at age 95 on May 9.

  Calcote's story, encompassing 35 years as a missionary to Japan, wasn't quite like the other veterans in the group. Read More

• MEMORIAL DAY: Remembering Sgt. James Fred Johnston

  by Steve Playl, posted Friday, May 24, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  At a revival tent near Fort Bragg, N.C., James Fred Johnston became prepared for the bitterly cold day in North Korea when he joined the ranks of those who have given their lives for their country. Read More

• WWI missions, theology legacies remembered

  by David Roach, posted Friday, November 09, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Baptist minister C.C. Davison encountered recently drafted soldier Grover Cleaver Sept. 12, 1918, on the back steps of an Army mess hall. Grover appeared dejected over the telegram announcing his mother's death. Sitting on the steps, Davison wrote in Arkansas' Baptist Advance newsjournal, "I marked for him a tract furnished by our Sunday School Board" and "led him to the Savior." A month later, Cleaver was dead.

  "What if there had been no Baptist war worker?" Davison asked. Read More

• VETERANS DAY: Why we remember

  by Chaplain (COL) Robert Hart, U.S. Army, posted Friday, November 09, 2018 (5 years ago)

  Veterans Day this year, Chaplain (COL) Robert Hart notes, carries special meeting as the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I. Read More

• Twin brothers, WWII veterans, joined for eternity

  by Mike Schueler, posted Friday, November 10, 2017 (6 years ago)

  

  Photo courtesy of Hannah Hanzel/Baptist Messenger

  MCALESTER, Okla. (BP) -- Claude Stokes guessed he had about 15 seconds to decide how he was going to die.

  It was 1944, and the 20-year-old tank commander was lying face-down in a ditch in the middle of a firefight in central Italy when he heard something sizzling. Claude looked up to see a German artillery shell sticking out of the mud about six inches from his head. Since the shell didn't explode on impact, he had a choice: stay put to hope for a dud or run for it through a cloud of German machine gun and mortar fire. Read More

• WWII ship's discovery prompts survivor to 'praise the Lord'

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, August 24, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

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  CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- When Edgar Harrell learned about the recovery of the U.S. Navy cruiser whose sinking he survived 72 years ago, his first reaction was "praise the Lord!"

  "I'm so excited," Harrell, 92, told Baptist Press. "It kind of brings closure."

  The U.S.S. Indianapolis' discovery was announced Aug. 19 by Paul Allen, an entrepreneur whose research ship located the wreckage 3.5 miles below the surface of the Philippines Sea. The Indianapolis was sunk by Japanese torpedoes July 30 ... Read More

• U.S. entry to WWI remembered as chaplaincy catalyst

  by David Roach, posted Monday, April 24, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo from Wikimedia Commons

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The 100th anniversary of the United States' entry to World War I is also, says former U.S. Army chief of chaplains Douglas Carver, the 100th anniversary of when "the U.S. military chaplaincy came into its own ... as a distinct branch of the Armed Services."

  Among Southern Baptists, April 2017 additionally marks the 100th anniversary of the North American Mission Board's assignment to coordinate Southern Baptist Convention participation in U.S. military chaplaincy -- initially under the auspices of NAMB's precursor, the Home Mission Board. Read More

• Frank Gillespie remembered by Clemson's Dabo Swinney

  by Gerald Harris, posted Wednesday, March 22, 2017 (7 years ago)

  

  Photos courtesy of ClemsonTigers.com

  VILLA RICA, Ga. (BP) -- Frank Irvin Gillespie's last year playing football at Clemson was 1949 -- 20 years before Dabo Swinney, coach of the university's national championship football team, was born.

  However, Coach Swinney called Gillespie's son Frank the day after his dad died to offer his condolences -- a call evidencing that Frank Irvin Gillespie's influence at Clemson is legendary and still being felt nearly 70 years after his last football game. Read More

• Pearl Harbor attack cited as evangelism catalyst

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, December 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  Photo from Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain

  HONOLULU (BP) -- As Americans commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, some Christians also are remembering a series of evangelistic harvests that emerged from the death and destruction.

  Among those to find a saving relationship with Jesus in the aftermath of Dec. 7, 1941, were the commander of the Japanese air fleet that carried out the attack, Japanese Buddhists in Hawaii and other Hawaii residents who heard the preaching of missionaries recalled from East Asia. Read More