Baptists in England
John Smyth breaks ties with the Church of England
1606
Smyth flees to Amsterdam, baptizes himself and others
1609
Thomas Helwys returns the Amsterdam church back to England
1611
Smyth tries to join the Mennonites
1612
John Myles born in Wales
1621
William Screven born in Somerton, England
1629
Particular Baptists (Calvinists) originate in England
1630
Edward Terrill born in Bristol
1634
John Spilsbury (Calvinist Separatist) founds Particular Baptist church in London
1638
After reading Rev. 14, Dorothy Hazzard is convicted, becomes a Non-Conformist
1640
Hazzard begins to meet clandestinely with other Non-Confirmists in her shop
6/1640
Thomas Ewins commissioned to preach the Gospel by All Hallows Baptist Church
1642
Particular Baptists of seven churches draft the First London Confession
1644
Myles moves to London and joins Glasshouse church (Particular Baptist)
Approx. 1645
Myles returns to Wales and serves as minister
1649
Thomas Ewins becomes Pastor of the "Hazzard Group" in Bristol
1651
Terrill becomes convinced of believer's baptism and joins Thomas Ewins' church
1658
Universities closed to Nonconformists following the Great Ejection
1662
Edward Terrill leaves his estate for the training of Nonconformist ministers
1675
Baptists adopt the Second London Confession
1677
The "Terrill School" established on his estate
1679
Baptist Confession of Faith written, heavily influenced by Reformed Baptists
1689
William Staughton born in Coventry, England
1770
The Terrill school reorganizes as Bristol Baptist College
1770
Staughton graduates from Bristol Baptist College
1792
Staughton helps found the Baptist Missionary Society
1793
Charles G. Sommers born in London
1793
Congregationalists in England
Act of Supremacy names Henry VIII head of the Church of England
1534
Robert Browne establishes a Congregational church in Norwich
1581
Browne publishes his theory of Congregational independance
1582
Underground Non-Conformist churches grow in number
1582 - 1620
The Savoy Declaration, the standard of Congregationalism, is adopted
1658
Baptists in America
Roger Williams banished to Rhode Island for heresy
1638
Williams establishes the First Baptist Church in America
1638
Screven immigrates to New England
Approx. 1640
Myles leaves for Plymouth after restoration of monarchy
1662
Myles founds Swansea, MA and FBC after clashes with Congregationalists
1663
Myles flees to Boston during King Philip's War and pastors FBC Boston
1675
Screven baptized at FBC Boston by John Myles
Approx. 1676
Screven ordained to ministry and forms a church in Kittery, Maine
Approx. 1/1682
Screven relocates church to Charleston, SC due to conflicts with NE Puritans
5/1682
Staughton earns Doctor of Divinity from College of New Jersey (Princeton)
1801
Sommers comes to the United States after attending school in Denmark
1808
William Milton Tryon born in New York City
1809
Baptists unify nationally as the Triennial Convention
1814
Staughton helps organize the Triennial Convention
1814 - 1826
Sommers converted and determines to pursue the ministry
1820
Sommers studies for ministry in Philadelphia under William Staughton
1825
Sommers becomes pastor of South Baptist Church in New York
1825
Tryon converted and baptized by Charles G. Sommers
1826
Tryon appointed missionary to Texas by American Baptist Home Mission Society
1841
Tryon, others petition Union Baptist Association for a university in Texas
10/1841
Congregationalists in America
Pilgrims, mostly Congregationalists, sail to America on the Mayflower.
1620
Harvard University founded for the training of Congregational clergy
1636
Colonial Congregationalists are united under the Cambridge Platform
1648
James Pierpont born in Roxbury, MA
1659
Pierpont becomes Congregationalist minister
1680
Pierpont marries third wife, Mary Hooker, granddaughter of Rev Thomas Hooker
1698
Yale College founded by James Pierpont and 10 Congregationalist ministers
1701
The Saybrook Platform, a new Congregational constitution, is adopted
1708
Sarah Pierpont marries Jonathan Edwards
1727
The First Great Awakening breaks out in New England
1739 - 1743
Unitarianism grows within the Congregational churches
1750
First openly Unitarian church founded in Boston, MA
1785
Henry Ware named President of Harvard
1805
Congregationalist Calvinist/Unitarian split
1806
Calvinist Congregationalists establish Andover Theological Seminary
1807
Tiburon Baptist Church (Southern Baptist)
Southern Baptists split from national organizations
1845
Baylor University chartered
1845
San Rafael Baptist Institute is founded and shuttered in Marin County, CA
1859 - 1862
Southern Baptist Convention withdraws support from California work
1865
Baylor theology department becomes Baylor Theological Seminary
1905
BTS chartered as Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
1908
Baptist Student Union founded by Frank Leavell
1922
Cooperative Program launched to channel offerings to missions
1925
Isam Hodges graduates from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
1926
William Hendricks born
1929
BSU functions transferred to the Baptist Sunday School Board
1930
Hodges moves to California to start a theological school in the West
1935
Hodges becomes pastor at Golden Gate Baptist Church in Oakland, CA
1937
Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary chartered
1944
Classes meet at Golden Gate Baptist Church
Southern Baptist General Convention of California assumes ownership of GGBTS
1945
Memorial Baptist Church in Frankfort, KY founded
1945
Southern Baptist Convention assumes ownership of GGBTS
1950
Dr. Harold Graves named President of GGBTS
1952
GGBTS relocates to Mill Valley, CA
1959
Tiburon Baptist Church founded by Dr. Graves and other GGBTS faculty
1960
Stricker converted at Memorial Baptist Church
1963
Hendricks becomes professor of theology at GGBTS
1978
Stricker graduates from Harvard
1979
Stricker receives PhD under the mentorship of Hendricks from GGBTS
1987
Dr. Barry Stricker becomes Pastor of TBC
6/1993
Christian Challenge UCLA (BSU) founded by Joe Rust
1998
University of California
Henry Durant attends Andover Theological Seminary
Approx. 1817
Henry Durant graduates from Yale College
1827
Durant ordained as pastor of Congregational Church of Byfield, MA
1833
Durant moves to California and establishes Contra Costa Academy
1853
Trustees of Contra Costa Academy granted a charter for College of CA
1855
College of California merges to become the University of California
1867
The Medical Department of the UC is established, will become UCSF
1873
Southern Branch of the UC established, will become UCLA
1919
First Baptist Church of West Los Angeles (Conservative Baptist)
Marburg Colloquy: Luther/Zwingli disagree on Communion, splitting Protestants
1529
Wilhelm III establishes Evangelical Church of Prussia uniting Reformed/Lutheran
1817
Tens of thousands of German immigrants come to America
1830 - 1860
German Evangelical Synod of North America founded in Missouri
1840
Wheaton College founded by Jonathan Blanchard
1860
First Baptist Church of Sawtelle founded
Approx. 1901
Northern Baptist Convention formed in Washington, D.C.
5/17/1907
Art Wilke born to German Evangelical parents
1920
FBC relocates to its current location
Approx. 1926
Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy brews within the NBC
1935 - 1945
Wilke raised in Beth Eden Baptist Church under Dr. Sam Bradford
1945 - 1960
Jerry Wilke born in Colorado
1945
Conservative Baptist Association of America organized in Atlantic City
1947
Fuller Theological Seminary founded by Charles Fuller and Harold Ockenga
1947
FBC Sawtelle becomes FBC West Los Angeles after Sawtelle is incorporated
Approx. 1950
Wilke graduates from Baptist Bible College in Denver
1964
Piper graduates from Wheaton College
1968
Piper obtains B.Div from Fuller Theological Seminary
1971
Wilke graduates from Los Angeles Baptist Seminary
1974
Piper publishes Desiring God
1986
Piper founds Desiring God Ministries, making resources available for no cost
1994
Wilke becomes Pastor of FBCWLA
1998
FBCWLA merges with Shoreline West LA to become Cornerstone West LA
4/2011
Family Tree
Richard Bowes and Elizabeth Aske are married
1521
Anne Bowes born, will become John Knox' sister-in-law
1535
Stephen Hopkins hired to sail on the Mayflower to Plymouth, MA
1620
Worked as a hired hand on the ship carrying the Pilgrims (Puritans) to America
Edward Bompasse, a Huguenot, sails to Plymouth aboard the Fortune
1621
William Hopkins comes to America in the Great Migration
1630
John Nicks (Nix) arrives in Barbados from England
1634
Hans Nehs (Nease), German Protestant, immigrates to Pennsylvania
1731
Henry Hopkins born in Baptist Rhode Island
1743
John Gunkel immigrates to America from Hessen, Germany
1856
Jimmie Lou Nease born
1932
Doug N and Leda G born
Approx. 1957
Doug & Leda move to San Francisco for Leda to intern at UCSF
Approx. 1980
Doug & Leda become members at Tiburon Baptist Church
Approx. 1981
Zach baptized by Pastor Stricker
9/1993
Zach moves to Los Angeles to attend UCLA
10/2002
Zach joins Christian Challenge discipleship group
2003
Zach marries Ginger Calmer, begins attending FBC West Los Angeles
2005
Zach introduced to the works of John Piper after reading Desiring God
2007
Zach enrolls at The Master's Seminary
6/2011
The Master's Seminary
John Calvin born in Picardy, France
1509
Calvin is converted, breaks from the Roman Catholic Church
1533
Calvin publishes first edition of The Institutes of the Christian Religion
1536
Calvin becomes pastor of the church in Geneva
1537
Calvin relocates to Strasbourh
1538
Calvin returns to Geneva
1541
John Knox settles in Geneva with John Calvin
1554
Knox flees England during the reign of Mary Tudor
1554
Elizabeth Knox born to John Knox and Margery Bowes
1555
Knox returns to Scotland
1559
Knox helps write the Scots Confession, establishing Presybeterianism in Scotland
1560
John Welsh born in Scotland
1568
Welsh obtains MA from University of Edinburgh
1588
Anne Walker born to descendents of John Welsh of Ayr and Elizabeth Knox
1690
John Witherspoon born to James Witherspoon and Anne Walker
1723
Witherspoon obtains MA from University of Edinburgh, remains to study divinity
1739
Witherspoon becomes Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) minister
1745
Witherspoon comes to New Jersey to become President of Princeton
1768
Archibald Alexander born
1772
William Graham studies under Witherspoon at Princeton
1775
A. Alexander studies under William Graham, a Presbyterian
1782 - 1789
A. Alexander ordained by the presbytery of Hanover
1794
Edward Norris Kirk born
1802
Alexander named first professor of the Princeton Theological Seminary
1812
John MacArthur emigrates from Glasgow, Scotland to Canada
1815
Kirk studies at Princeton Theological Seminary under Dr. Archibald Alexander
1824
Dwight Lyman Moody born in Northfield, MA
1837
Edward Norris Kirk founds Congregational Church of Mount Vernon
1842
Moody moves to Boston to live with his uncle
1854
Moody converted while attending Congregational Church of Mount Vernon
1855
Torrey becomes a Congregationalist minister in Ohio
1878
Torrey becomes Superintendant of Chicago Evangelization Society (Moody)
1889
Torrey joins D. L. Moody in evangelist work in Chicago
1889
Thomas Fullerton serves as minister of St. James Presbyterian in Charlottetown
1893 - 1921
Bible Institute of Los Angeles (Biola) founded
1908
R. A. Torrey named Dean of Biola
1912
Harry and Olivia MacArthur move to Los Angeles to enroll at Biola
1914
Eastern Baptist Seminary founded in Philadelphia by Northern Baptist Convention
1925
Los Angeles Baptist College and Seminary founded in downton Los Angeles
1927
After graduating from Eastern Baptist Seminary, Jack MacArthur returns to LA
1937
John MacArthur, Jr. born
1939
Talbot Theological Seminary formed by Dr. Louis Talbot
1952
MacArthur obtains M.Div from Talbot Theological Seminary
1963
MacArthur becomes Pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, CA
1969
MacArthur becomes President of The Master's College (LABC)
1985
MacArthur founds The Master's Seminary
1986