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The Northwest Baptist Convention (NBC) is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the Northwest United States (Washington, Oregon, and the panhandle of Idaho). Headquartered in Vancouver, Washington , the convention is made up of 15 Baptist associations and around 480 churches as of 2010.
Community Chapel and Bible Training Center was a controversial independent church created in 1967 and pastored by Donald Lee Barnett in which he taught his version of Oneness Pentecostalism, later turning into a Unitarian. The church eventually grew to an attendance of over 3,000 before splitting and losing significant numbers in 1988 because ...
The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972. It traces its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial ...
The church became a member of American Baptist Churches USA in 1967. [7] It became affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists in 1989 and affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in 1991. [7] In 1988, the church severed ties with the Southern Baptist Convention and, in 2004, voted to leave the Baptist State Convention. [1] In 2009, the ...
This same year, a study on Southern Baptist churches concluded that the mean Simpson's Diversity Index for race in the Southern Baptists Church was 0.098, with 0 being perfect homogeneity and 1 being complete evenness. It was also concluded that the average Southern Baptist church had more than 90% non-Hispanic White members.
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement (also known as the New IFB or NIFB) is an association of Christian right King James Only, independent Baptist churches. The New IFB began with Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in response to perceived liberalism in other independent Baptist churches. The New IFB does not consider ...
The Sandy Creek Separate Baptist self-organized in 1756. The Washington District Association, however, upon being organized adopted the Preambles and the Constitution of the Regular Baptists. The Old Regular Baptist Churches of today can be likewise be traced, directly or indirectly, to churches who were involved with these older associations.
The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville) in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on 29 October 1778. [40] The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline. Many of Alline's followers, after his death, converted and strengthened the Baptist presence in the Atlantic ...