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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.
or...For a $200. annual fee you will become a member of the 200 Club.
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

 

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.

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The Rev. Leon Redford Lawton, 86, of High St., Westerly, R.I., died peacefully on July 18, 2010. He was the beloved husband of Dorothy G. Brannon.
Born in Battle Creek, Mich., on May 24, 1924, he was the son of the late Stephen R. and Ethel (Chapin) Lawton.
Rev. Lawton received his bachelor's degree from Salem College in Salem West, Va. and went on to receive his master's degree in Divinity from the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Covina, Calif.
Rev. Lawton retired from the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society in Westerly and served churches and missions all over the world before retiring in 1991. After his retirement, he served the Waterford Seventh Day Baptist Church for many years.
He was past president of the Hopkinton Historical Society and a life member of the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society in Wisconsin.
Rev. Lawton served in the United States Army during World War 11 and received a Bronze Star, Victory Medal and the Netherlands Gold Medal of Honor. He was also proud of the fact that he became in Eagle Scout at the age of 13.
Besides his loving and devoted wife of over 64 years, he will be sadly missed by his children; Duane E. Lawton of Charlevoux, Mich., Gordon P. Lawton of Milton, Wis., Patricia G. Tauscher of Bristol, Va. and Jeffrey G. Lawton of Bradford, R.I. He also leaves 11 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at the Pawcatuck Seventh Day Baptist Church at a time and date to be announced. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Buckler-Johnston Funeral Home, 121 Main St., Westerly.
Donations in Rev. Lawton's name may be made to the Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society, 19 Hillside Ave., Ashaway, R.I. 02804.