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The Ghana Baptist Convention has its origins in a Baptist mission of Nigerian Baptist Convention in 1927 in Kumasi. [1] It is officially founded in 1963 as the Ghana Baptist Conference. [ 2 ] In 1964, it became autonomous from the Nigerian Baptist Convention and take the name of Ghana Baptist Convention [ 3 ]
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 ...
In 1944, the convention had 2,352,339 members, and in 2000, the National Baptist Convention of America grew to about 3.5 million members in the United States. [13] It became the third-largest predominantly African American Christian body in the United States after the National Baptist Convention, USA and the Church of God in Christ.
The National Baptist Convention, USA, incorporated as the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., and more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a Baptist Christian denomination headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee and affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.
The Nigerian Baptist Convention also operates several hospitals and medical training institutions across the country. [5] The Baptist Medical Centre in Ogbomoso, now called Bowen University Teaching Hospital, remains one of the leading hospitals and has been in use as a university teaching hospital by the Bowen University in Iwo, since December 2009. [6]
The Convention was founded December 4, 1821 at First Baptist Church of Columbia with nine total messengers in attendance. Richard Furman was elected as the first president of the Convention and Abner Blocker was elected as Secretary. William B. Johnson and John Landrum were tasked with writing a constitution.
"Separation of church and state" is a metaphor paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in discussions of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".
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.