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General Baptists and Particular Baptists work was united in the Baptist Union in 1891. [4] The Baptist Historical Society was founded in 1908. In 1922, Edith Gates became the first woman ordained pastor in the Convention. [5] In 2013 Lynn Green was elected, with no votes against, as the first female General Secretary of the Baptist Union of ...
The Mountain Union Association, formed in 1867 at Silas Creek church near Lansing, North Carolina, was the first "Union" Baptist association. The Mountain Union Association was instrumental in helping former slaves organize the New Covenant Association of Wilkes County in 1868. This distinction, at least in name, has persisted in the ...
The Free Baptist Union (Swedish: Fribaptistsamfundet) was a Swedish Baptist Christian denomination that began in 1872, when Baptist preacher Helge Åkeson ...
The Baptist Union of Zambia has its origins in a South African mission of the Baptist Union of Southern Africa in 1924 [1] It is officially founded in 1975. [2] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 1,000 churches and 220,000 members.
The Baptist Union was founded in 1877 by four English-speaking churches and one German-speaking church. [2] The South African Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1892. [3] Black Baptist churches united to form the Bantu Baptist Church in 1927, under the auspices of the South African Baptist Missionary Society.
The Baptist Union of Jamaica dates back to 1782 when George Liele, a formerly-enslaved man from Atlanta, Georgia, came to Jamaica and began preaching in Kingston. [1] In 1814, the Baptist Missionary Society, a British organization, sent its first missionary to the island to open a school in Falmouth in Trelawny Parish, for the children of slaves. [2]
Odense Baptist Church. The first work in Denmark generally considered Baptist began in 1836 when Julius Köbner, a Danish Jew, visited Hamburg, Germany and met some individuals with Baptist views. [1] [2] Köbner was an associate and co-worker of Johann Gerhard Oncken (1800–1884), often considered the father of European Baptists. [3]
[citation needed] Free Will Baptists are General Baptists; opponents of the English General Baptists in North Carolina dubbed them "Freewillers" and they later assumed the name. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] General Baptist denominations have explicated their faith in two major confessions of faith , "The Standard Confession" (1660), and "The Orthodox ...