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Spreading the Gospel in the United States, Canada, and around the world is the goal of the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society.


          The Society carries out national and international missions through education, information, and suggestions for tangible assistance. These are stepping stones to becoming a beacon to others around the world.


          In Myanmar, Finland, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malawi, and the Philippines, the funds and workers of the Missionary Society are ministering. The congregations of the United States and Canada, through their individual members, make up the foundation for our worldwide outreach.

 

Become a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society for an annual fee of $10.00. You will receive The Missionary Reporter quarterly.
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Members of local SDB Churches (USA & Canada) become voting members of the Society.

Our mailing address is :
Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society,
19 Hillside Ave., Ashaway, Rhode Island 02804
Phone: (401) 596-4326
Fax: (401) 348-9494


Help Haiti

 

Funds donated to the relief efforts for Seventh Day Baptists in Haiti may be sent through the Missionary Society.

As always, 100% of the funds sent through the Society

go specifically to the designated need.

SDB's in Haiti

 

In Memoriam

Leon Redford Lawton
May 21, 1924 – July 18, 2010
Born: Battle Creek, MI                       Died: Westerly, RI

Throughout his lifetime, Leon served Seventh Day Baptists in many ways.

Pastor: Los Angeles, CA, 19481956; Kingston, Jamaica, 1956 –1964; Lost Creek, WV, 1961; Leonardsville-Brookville, NY, 1966 – 1968; Denver, CO, 1969 – 1970; Waterford, CT, 1992 – 2009

  • Missionary Service in Jamaica: 1956 – 1964
  • He was an invaluable member of the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society serving as:
  • Missionary Society Director of Evangelism: 1964 – 1968
  • Missionary Society Executive Vice President: 1970 – 1991
  • Elected General Council Member: 1991 – 1998
  • President of the SDB General Conference: 1993 – 1994

        His family consisted of his wife Dorothy (Brannon) Lawton and

his children, Duane, Patricia, Gordon and Jeffrey as well as

11 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

         Military Service –

  • US Army: 1942 – 1945
  • 1st Sergeant
  • Served in SHACFE



Leon served in the army and at the end was attached to Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.  Here is a link for the name and a picture of the patch that was on his uniform.  army documents

(a more complete accounting of his life will be coming in the near future)