Foreword

With a vision from God and evangelistic fire kindled by the Holy Spirit, coupled with tireless labor and indominatable courage of a few leaders and a handful of members in five small churches. The Yalobusha Baptist Association was organized less than four years after this north central Mississippi section was opened to white settlers. This is the history of that cooperative movement among Baptist churches in the valley of the Yalobusha River extending from Lafayette County on the north to Holmes on the south; Calhoun on the east and Tallahatchie on the west; from a preliminary meeting on November 15, 1835 until the organization of Associations by Counties took place in 1920.

For a period of five years Mr. J. B. Perry, Jr. led the Historical committee of First Baptist Church in an effort that resulted in the publication of A Christian Heritage, the history of First Baptist Church, Grenada, Mississippi. The Grenada County Baptist Association requested that he serve as chairman of the Historical Committee of that group, and after his report to the annual meeting in 1959 it was unanimously voted that this history be incorporated in the 1960 Minutes.

Co-authoring the work with Mr. Perry has been Mrs. John Rundle. Their efforts have brought to fruition this History of Yalobusha Baptist Association which accurately and vividly portrays the working of the Holy Spirit through the lives of countless individuals in the spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.


John W. Landrum
Pastor
First Baptist Church
Grenada, Mississippi