Pastor in Louisiana
Baines and his family left Crooked Creek and moved south to Mount Lebanon in Bienville Parish in north Louisiana. He was the Bienville Parish superintendent of schools and also the founding minister of the Saline Baptist Church, constituted on September 7, 1844. The church was later named Old Saline Baptist Church and maintains a cemetery. Baines pastored at Old Saline until 1848, when he relocated to neighboring Webster Parish and served as the first pastor of the Minden Baptist Church, later the First Baptist Church of Minden, Louisiana. (In 1969, Major dePingre', a journalist-turned-businessman, published The History of the First Baptist Church of Minden, Louisiana.)
Baines was the third minister of the Mount Lebanon Baptist Church and the moderator of the Red River Baptist Association. He assisted in the organization of the North Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1848. While in Minden, he helped to organize the First Baptist congregation in Marshall, Texas, the seat of Harrison County west of Shreveport.
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