1926 James Madison Pepper named executive director

1929 Edgar Wiley Reeder named executive

1929 Baptist Student Union organized (would later become Next Generation and Baptist Collegiate Ministries)

1937 First state Brotherhood organization formed

1938 Baptist Foundation of Illinois formed

1941 Lake Sallateeska Baptist Camp purchased

1946 Noel M. Taylor named executive director

1948 IBSA authorized to begin churches in the northern part of Illinois

1950 SBC held in Chicago

1953 Carbondale Baptist Building established

1956 Convention-backed Bond Program begins

1957 SBC held in Chicago

1965 James Godsoe named IBSA’s first Language (Ethnic) Missions Consultant

1967 James Hillman Smith named executive director

1968 First Community Baptist, Royal Lake becomes one of the first African American churches to join IBSA

1969 Streator Baptist Camp purchased

1971 Springfield Baptist Building established

1976 “We Were There” history of IBSA by Robert J. Hastings published

1980 Earnest Moseley named executive director

1981 Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief Team established

1982 Convention-backed Bond Program given to the Home Mission Board (now North American Mission Board)

1988 Maurice Swinford named executive director

1989 L.D. Patrick named IBSA’s first Anglo Church Consultant

1990 IBSA begins first mission partnerships with Mississippi and the Caribbean

1993 Clarence F. Shuler named IBSA’s first African American Church Consultant

1993 Petah Tikvah becomes IBSA’s first Messianic Jewish congregation

1993 Maternity Center, Mt.Vernon completed

1993 M. Eugene Wilson named executive director

1994 Convention adopts “declaration of repentance” for past racism

1996 Robert Wiley named executive director

2003 Wendell Lang named executive director

2006 Nate Adams named executive director