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Membership peaked in the early 1980s at around 1.6 million. Since the beginning of the 21st century, membership began to decline and stagnate again, with the ABCUSA reporting 1,145,647 members in 5,057 churches at the end of 2017. According to a census published by the denomination in 2024, it claimed 4,802 churches and 1,107,206 members. [19]
The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its 1845 organization in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding evangelists engaging ...
The states with the highest membership rates are Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Alabama, and Kentucky. [5] Free Will Baptist North American Ministries (known as Free Will Baptist Home Missions until 2015) has 89 active mission works in 26 states. [6] Their primary role is to send missionaries into North America to plant Free Will Baptist ...
By 1916, that number had grown to 2,938,579, a membership larger than either the Northern or Southern Baptist conventions had at the time. [28] According to a census published by the Baptist World Alliance in 2023, it self-reported a total of 21,145 churches and 8,415,100 members, [ 29 ] although the Association of Religion Data Archives ...
"The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." –Augsburg Confession [8] Christian theologians such as Bostwick Hawley teach that church membership is commanded in scripture, grounding this in the fact that "apostolic letters are addressed to the Churches", "Apostolic salutations are to Churches", "Jesus Christ is ...
In 2007, 14% of the National Baptist Convention's membership were aged 18–29; 35% aged 30–49; 29% aged 50–64; and 21% aged 65 and older. [44] The largest generational group as of 2014 was the Baby boomers (43%); boomers were followed by Generation X (28%). The Silent Generation was the third largest (14%) and Millennials were fourth (13% ...
Baptist Hospital Mutengene , member of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Regent's Park College in Oxford, affiliated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain. Some Baptist church congregations choose to be independent of larger church organizations (Independent Baptist).
The Baptist Missionary Association of America adopted its current name in 1969. [4] The majority of BMAA churches are concentrated in the Southern United States , but the association has churches across the United States and supports missions throughout the world.