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Baptist State Convention of Michigan

church convention

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ4857681 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Baptist State Convention of Michigan is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan.

In 2025, the convention is made up of 13 associations; the director is Timothy Patterson.

Editorial summary

“Baptist State Convention of Michigan” enters the record as church convention. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Baptist, State and Convention can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Baptist, State and Convention.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Baptist State Convention of Michigan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Baptist, State and Convention provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4857681. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2025.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Baptist State Convention of Michigan”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Baptist State Convention of Michigan primary sources, Baptist State Convention of Michigan archive and Baptist research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Baptist State Convention of Michigan”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Baptist State Convention of Michigan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.