Dr. Shadrach Meshach (S.M.) Lockridge (March 7, 1913 – April 4, 2000) was the Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, a prominent African-American congregation located in San Diego, California, from 1953 – 1993. Across the United States and around the world he was known for his preaching.
Biography
Shadrach Meshach Lockridge was born March 7, 1913, in Robertson County, Texas, the oldest of eight children and son of a Baptist minister. A graduate of Bishop College in Marshall, Texas, he worked for two years as a high school English teacher. In 1940 in Dallas, he felt led to preach. In 1941 he married Virgil Mae Thomas but they never had any children.
Ministry
In 1942, he accepted his first pastorate at Fourth Ward Baptist Church in Ennis, Texas. In August 1952, he was named pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in San Diego where he served until retiring in 1993.
During Dr. Lockridge’s tenure at Calvary Baptist, a predominantly African-American congregation, his ministry touched the lives of more than 100,000 people. He preached at crusades, revivals, religious rallies and evangelistic conferences around the world.
He also served in key regional, state and national positions with the Baptist Church, including being elected the first president of the National Missionary Baptist Convention of America.
He held doctorates and numerous honorary degrees and was often sought as a public speaker, even after he retired in 1993. He served as guest lecturer at numerous schools and universities and on the faculty of several others, including the Billy Graham School of Evangelism.
Dr. Lockridge was active in the civil rights movement, and under his leadership Calvary Baptist hosted several of its leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
An excerpt of one of his messages has become quite popular, where he describes his King, Jesus Christ.
Just when you thought it was safe to surf the net again, I’m back to continue my ranting and raving. I took the month of January as a slight sabbatical from blogging. It started involuntarily. Apparently something about South Arkansas doesn’t agree with high tech equipment. As I was sitting in my in-laws beautiful home, attempting to do a little computering, my laptop spontaneously caught fire, flipped over four times, and started downloading liberal democrat propaganda. Alright maybe it wasn’t that dramatic, but it did cost me a hard drive. Thanks to the fine nerd herd employed by The Geek Squad, I was back in business in just a couple of weeks. I went ahead and abstained from updating the site due to a fairly tight school schedule, but now that I’m back in the swing of things, or just uncontrollably caught in the rush that is my life, I plan to post on a regular basis once again.
The purpose of this post is twofold, one to let you know that things are still kickin here in D-town and the blog updates will resume, and two to brag just a little bit. Tomorrow, the beautiful wife and I head out to Wolf Creek Ski Area near Pagosa Springs, Colorado with some fine folks from Young Married Life at Denton Bible. For some reason I cannot get the pictures I want to post, so you’ll just have to use your imagination as to how beautiful it is and how fun it is going to be. I also can’t edit the html so you’ll just have to use this link to check out where we will be. http://www.wolfcreekski.com/ I’ll make sure to wave at the WebCam every so often in case you are watching.
There are several things bouncing around in my head to write about so hopefully early next week I can get them in print. This little site here has gone from between 30-40 people a day reading it to 2 or 3 in the month that I haven’t posted. That is ample time to have caught up on the archives so new stuff will come shortly.
In the mean time, be good, and don’t do anything cool until I’m back.
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