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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 following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of state and other conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention
Baptist Convention of Iowa: Kansas: Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists: Nebraska: Kentucky: Kentucky Baptist Convention: Louisiana: Louisiana Baptist Convention: Maryland: Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware: Delaware: Michigan: Baptist State Convention of Michigan: Minnesota: Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention: Wisconsin ...
In 1891 James Marion Frost, a 43-year-old pastor, founded "The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention" after that year's annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. [6] In 1925, the Board began operating retail bookstores under the name "Baptist Book Store."
The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO), now known simply as Oklahoma Baptists, is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1] The convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Baptist Christian denomination based in the United States. The words Southern Baptist Convention refer both to the denomination and its annual meeting of delegates. Its "confession of faith" (not binding on members or congregations) is the Baptist Faith and Message (2000 edition).
When the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News published the 2019 exposé "Abuse of Faith," documenting how the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) spent more than 20 years covering up ...
In 1859, there was a push in the Southern Baptist Convention to do away with the Foreign Mission Board. Then, in 1892, T.P. Crawford, a Baptist missionary to China penned the book, Churches to the Front, [3] in which he criticized the board system as an encroachment upon the authority of the local church's commission to carry out mission work ...