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The Florida Baptist Convention (FBC) is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Florida. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the convention is made up of 49 Baptist associations and around 2,900 churches as of 2010. The FBC is currently led by Dr. John Thomas "Tommy" Green III when he ...
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 Baptist Bible Union (BBU) of 1923 was the forerunner to the GARBC. The final meeting of the BBU in 1932 in Chicago was the first meeting of the GARBC. [1] The Association publishes Regular Baptist Press, a church education curriculum and the association's bimonthly magazine, the Baptist Bulletin. In 2018, the GARBC had over 1,200 member ...
The National Baptist Convention of America formed out of a schism in the NBCUSA in 1915 over a dispute about the Sunday School Publishing Board’s ownership, while the Progressive National ...
The Baptist University of Florida was founded in 1943 and is a cooperating ministry of the Florida Baptist Convention. [1] [2] The school first opened its doors in Lakeland, Florida as the Florida Baptist Institute. Two years later, in 1945, it was renamed as the Baptist Bible Institute.
Converge, formerly the Baptist General Conference (BGC) and Converge Worldwide, is a Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the National Association of Evangelicals. The headquarters are in Orlando, Florida. The current president of Converge is John K. Jenkins.
Missouri Baptist Convention [20] Hardin-Simmons University: Abilene, Texas: Baptist General Convention of Texas [20] Heartland Baptist Bible College: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Independent Baptist: Houston Christian University: Houston, Texas: Baptist General Convention of Texas [21] Howard Payne University: Brownwood, Texas: Baptist General ...
In 1870, a convention was called to meet with Harmony Church, Gallatin County, Illinois, with the idea of organizing a general association comprising all the annual General Baptist associations. Delegates from Liberty, Mt. Olivet and Ohio associations gathered and formed the General Association of General Baptists.