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Association
History
The
Philadelphia Association, constituted in 1707, was the first
cooperative Baptist body in America. The association had much
influence upon the churches in Virginia and North Carolina, which
pioneered the Baptist faith in Kentucky.
The
Tate's Creek Association was formed in 1783, the fourth constituted
in Kentucky, and the first under the style of "United
Baptist."
The
Cumberland River Association was formed in October, 1809, when Tates
Creek Association met at the White Oak Pond Church, Madison County,
KY. The Tates Creek Association dismissed six churches to form the
new association. They were: Double Springs, in Lincoln County, White
Oak, Sinking Creek (First Baptist Church, Somerset), Forks of the
Cumberland, (Tateville) and Union in Pulaski County, and Big Sinking
in Wayne County, Kentucky.
In
1861, the association was divided over how mission work was to be
done, not if mission work was to be done. Some wanted to support the
Baptist board of foreign missions and some wanted to do mission work
the Bible way. The moderator, Bro. Richard Collier, stayed with the
original Cumberland River Association and the Bible way of mission
work. The association has never affiliated with the Southern
Baptist Convention at any time, and has never ceased to function as
a medium of the churches since its formation in 1809.
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