George Beauchamp Vick

George Beauchamp Vick (1901–1975), known as G. Beauchamp Vick, was pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, from 1950 to the 1970s. J. Frank Norris, pastor of Temple Baptist from 1934 to 1950, appointed Vick in 1935 to help him manage the church, as Norris himself traveled between it and First Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1950, Vick had a falling out with Norris and became pastor of Temple Baptist. Vick and others disillusioned with Norris founded the Baptist Bible Fellowship International and Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.

Sources

• Brackney, William H. Historical Dictionary of the Baptists. 2nd ed. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements 94. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Hankins, Barry. God’s Rascal: J. Frank Norris and the Beginnings of Southern Fundamentalism. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.