Baptists

[IreneLviv]

Hello Hannia
How is your new everything??
What do you know about Baptists?
I came acorss them for the first time
They appeared in the village I researched in the early 1920s and converted many locals into their faith - from this time on I don't know where I have to look for their records - they no more appear in Greek-Catholic books!
Also they were buried differently from Greek-Catholics - their graves oriemted similarly to those of priests

[Hannia]

My Mama (from Horodetskij raion) said they would bride conversion. The preachers would arrive from Canada and America w/Bibles and packages. The preacher would leave and their parishes would continue sending packages w/food and goods, even in the early 50's.
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What village are you researching?

A good person to ask would be Jerry Frank. Let me get his e-mail address for you.


Jerry Frank
Calgary, Alberta

Jerry Frank is an amateur genealogist specializing, since 1986, in the research of Germans who migrated to or through Congress Poland and Volhynia. He has written three family books, Frank Migrations (about his paternal family), From Nagold to Thalberg (his maternal line), and Ask the Former Generations (a compilation of the previous two).
Jerry is also an amateur cartographer, having created two maps of German settlements in Russian Poland (showing over 4000 Germanic villages) and in Volhynia (with over 1400 Germanic villages). Both represent the most current and comprehensive resources available and were the first ever to be fully indexed. They bring together the independent works of several historical map makers into a single resource and then add the most up to date listings of villages from such sources as the St. Petersburg Consistory records and other SGGEE (Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe) extractions.
Jerry has spoken at a variety of conferences including FEEFHS, SGGEE, ASGHR (Calgary and Edmonton Chapters), Grande Prairie Branch of the Alberta Genealogical Society, and the Medicine Hat GR Festival. He lives in Calgary, Alberta and is currently active as webmaster for SGGEE


Please pass on my regards.
franklyspeaking@shaw.ca

[IreneLviv]

Hannia, where is this Horodetsky raion?

I research Zaborze - it turned out to be the major Baptism centre in Galicia with numerous conventions, assemlies and training courses held there in the 1920s - why they chose Rava-Ruska area for intervention?
A famous baptist preacher and pastor, Domashovets, comes from this village.

Today, their prayer house stands out from the village landscape like smth alien - brought in from Germany or America.

A couple married as Greek-Catholics and transfered into Baptism - and it is impossible to trace their family for several years, as no Baptist records are available, and then they went to Canada as Baptists.

[Hannia]

Sorry, Horodotskij raion> Lviv oblast.
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Baptists in Ukraine

The Baptist Church is one of the oldest Protestant denominations, and Evangelical Christian Baptists are among the most active Christian confessions in Ukraine and the world.

In 16th-century Ukraine, there were Anabaptistsm, often confused with Baptists.

The first Baptist baptism (or "baptism by faith" of adult people) in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Ingul in the Yelizavetgrad region (now Kirovohrad region), in a German settlement. In 1867, the first Baptist communities were organized in that area. From there, the trend spread to the south of Ukraine and then to other regions as well. One of the first Baptist communities was registered in Kiev in 1907, and in 1908 the First All-Russian Convention of Baptists was held there. Than All-Russian Union of Baptists was established in the town of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk).

From the 1920s, Evangelical Christians and Baptists were prohibited in Soviet Ukraine. To some extent, they were revived during and after World War II. In 1944, Baptists and Evangelical Christians united in the Church of Evangelical Christian Baptists (ECB). They were later joined by other smaller Baptist and Evangelical trends. At the end of the 1950s, 75% of the believers of the All-USSR Council of ECB lived in Ukraine. Another reported revival was in the 1970s.

In the period after the Second world war, baptists and other Protestant believers in the USSR (Pentecostals, Adventists etc.) were compulsively sent to mental hospitals, endured trials and prisons (often for refusal to enter military service). Some were even deprived of their parent rights.[6]

Some part of the baptists (as well as other Protestants groups of Ukraine) in last decades of 20th century emigrated to USA and Canada. After the collapse of the USSR, migration and interaction with Western churches increased. At present, there are large Ukrainian baptist communities in Sacramento, Philadelphia[7] and Pennsylvania.

Nearly 90% of Baptists in Ukraine are united in the All-Ukraine Union of the Association of Evangelical Baptists (AUU AEB), established in 1994 at the 22nd Convention of the ECB of Ukraine. Today, the union includes 3 seminaries, 2 universities and 15 bible colleges. The union is engaged in publishing activity and has an extended mass media network. The AUU AEB is governed by a council composed of senior presbyters (bishops) of regional associations headed by the president of the council. In 1990—2006 the council was headed by Hryhorii Komendant. From May 2006 it has been headed by Viacheslav Nesteruk. The union closely cooperates with Ukrainian Baptists in the diaspora. The AUU AEB is a member of the European Baptist Federation and the Baptist World Alliance.

Baptists organized the 1-st International Christian Theater Festival in Rivne, which took place in July, 2007.

The famous political figure, second person of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Olexander Turchinov is reported to be a member of some Baptist community.


excerpt
Protestantism in Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Hannia]

I didn't realize the kind of inroads this religion has made in Ukraine. They seem to be organized, so someone within the church should know where records are kept.
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Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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[IreneLviv]

WOW - Horodok area - You are nearly a Lvivian !!