1964
Southern Baptist denominational leader and Home Mission Board missionary to Native Americans Calowa William Stumph was born October 16, 1878, in Purdy, Tennessee. He accepted Christ as his savior at age 19 and was baptized in 1898. He was ordained to the ministry on May 30, 1902, at Highland Avenue Baptist Church in Jackson, Tennessee. Stumph pastored churches Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. He served as Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico from 1922-1931, with varied responsibilities of missionary promotion during the early difficult formative years of the Convention. He led in establishing many policies and programs for the Baptist Convention of New Mexico during the decade following the First World War. From 1933 to 1951, Stump and his wife Delia served as SBC Home Mission Board missionaries to the Indians in New Mexico. He was Business Manager (1946-1955) and Editor (1951-1955) of the All Indian Baptist newspaper and staff member of the Baptist New Mexican (1957-1958). He died November 4, 1972, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
