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Our purpose is to partner with the 48 churches and missions of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association providing assistance, training, resources, mission opportunities, fellowship events, and more as they seek to fulfill the Great Commission of our Lord in their communities. As a missions mobilization center, we help provide ways to be involved in missions both abroad and at home.
We hope you will find our Web site informative and helpful. Please contact us with questions or comments if we can be of further service.
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This year we celebrate our 250th anniversary. Listed below is just a little bit of our history.
Shubal Stearns was a Baptist preacher who had been converted under the preaching of George Whitefield. Stearns received a letter from a friend inviting him to North Carolina where there was not a Baptist preacher within a hundred miles. Accepting this as from the Lord, Stearns and several others journeyed through the Shenandoah Valley and across the Blue Ridge into North Carolina. Settling at Sandy Creek in 1755, they organized the Sandy Creek Baptist Church and built a church building even before constructing their own homes.
Stearns was a fervent preacher who preached hard against sin and followed the example of George Whitefield in proclaiming the necessity of the new birth. Stearns had a dream of sending out preachers and planting churches throughout the South. By 1758, the Sandy Creek Baptist Association was organized. The Sandy Creek association was birthed during a period of revival known as the Great Awakening. From its beginning, the association had a heart for missions that reached far beyond their local geographic area. In 17 years, the Sandy Creek association became the mother, grandmother, and great grandmother of 42 churches from which sprang 125 ministers of the Gospel. In fact, by 1770 the Sandy Creek association had grown to the extent that they formed two new associations, one in South Carolina and the other in Virginia. The churches in North Carolina preserved the Sandy Creek name.
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