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East Mississippi State Baptist Convention; General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, Inc. [29] Mid-South Churches Cooperative Conference (Baptist) State Convention [30] Mississippi General Missionary Baptist State Convention; New Educational State Convention of Mississippi; North Mississippi Baptist Education Convention [31]
The Triennial Convention (so-called because it met every three years) was the first national Baptist denomination in the United States.Officially named the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions, it was formed in 1814 to advance missionary work and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Louisiana Baptist Convention (LBC) or Louisiana Baptists is a Baptist state convention affiliated with the Southern Baptists. Comprising approximately 1,600 affiliated churches and 620,000 members, [1] [2] the Louisiana Baptist Convention's offices are located in the city of Alexandria. The executive director of the Louisiana Baptists is ...
Soon after its dedication, the church was renamed Union Missionary Baptist Church. Finally, the church was renamed once more, to Antioch Baptist Church. [2] The structure is built of red brick and white trim. The church became a member of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. in 1906. The church has been renovated two times since its ...
In 1949, Jemison was first called as a minister by Mt. Zion First Baptist Church in Baton Rouge. [5] At the time, his father was President of the National Baptist Convention, the association of African-American Baptist churches established in 1895. As a new minister, T. J. Jemison was focused mainly on internal church matters, such as ...
In 1880, the Baptist State Missionary Convention with Gayles still at its head created a journal, the Baptist Signal, and made Gayles editor. Under the leadership of Gayles, the convention opened Natchez College in Natchez in 1884. Gayles played a prominent role in the National Baptist convention in St. Louis in August 1886. [2]
Johnson became the last southern president of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions between 1841 and 1844. As tensions grew between the northern and southern Baptists over the issue of slavery , he attempted to avoid a split but in 1845 was asked become first president ...
Hosea Holcombe (1780–1841) - Historian and President of the Alabama Baptist State Convention from 1833 to 1838; Alma Hunt - Executive secretary of the Woman's Missionary Union; H. Dale Jackson (1930–2003) - Pastor and ethicist; William Bullein Johnson (1782–1862) - First president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851