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A Choosing People: The History of Seventh Day Baptists
Sanford, Don A.
448 pages, Hardcover
First published April 30, 2012
About the author
Don A. Sanford
4 books1 followerDon A. Sanford served as historian and historian-emeritus for the Seventh Day Baptist Historical Society for twenty-two years.
Rev. Sanford studied at Milton College, Alfred School of Theology and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, earning degrees from each. He served Seventh Day Baptist churches at Independence and Andover, NY (1950-1954), at New Auburn, WI (1954-1959), and at White Cloud, MI (1959-1967) along with serving as interim pastor in several Baptist, Methodist and Congregational churches throughout his life. After leaving White Cloud, Rev. Sanford had a second career in education, working at public and private schools in Southern Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, including time as audio-visual librarian at Milton College. After retiring from teaching in 1987, he became Historian of the SDB Historical Society, a post he held until the end of 2004 when he was honoured as Historian emeritus. Sanford had a prolific writing ministry, including 15 years of editing the Helping Hand, a bible study and devotional book published quarterly for SDB’s, a monthly column in the Sabbath Recorder called “Pearls from the Past,” and several books including: A Choosing People, Conscience Taken Captive, A Free People In Search of a Free Land, Greater Than Its Parts, and the Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy. In addition to this substantial body of work, Rev. Sanford also contributed to several Baptist anthologies and presented research frequently in the larger Baptist history community.
Rev. Sanford studied at Milton College, Alfred School of Theology and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, earning degrees from each. He served Seventh Day Baptist churches at Independence and Andover, NY (1950-1954), at New Auburn, WI (1954-1959), and at White Cloud, MI (1959-1967) along with serving as interim pastor in several Baptist, Methodist and Congregational churches throughout his life. After leaving White Cloud, Rev. Sanford had a second career in education, working at public and private schools in Southern Wisconsin for nearly 20 years, including time as audio-visual librarian at Milton College. After retiring from teaching in 1987, he became Historian of the SDB Historical Society, a post he held until the end of 2004 when he was honoured as Historian emeritus. Sanford had a prolific writing ministry, including 15 years of editing the Helping Hand, a bible study and devotional book published quarterly for SDB’s, a monthly column in the Sabbath Recorder called “Pearls from the Past,” and several books including: A Choosing People, Conscience Taken Captive, A Free People In Search of a Free Land, Greater Than Its Parts, and the Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy. In addition to this substantial body of work, Rev. Sanford also contributed to several Baptist anthologies and presented research frequently in the larger Baptist history community.
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