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Baptist Missions (BM) is a Baptist mission organisation and a department of the Association of Baptist Churches in Ireland (ABC). [2] It is located in the Baptist Centre and is shared with ABC. The scope of their activities is international in scale covering several countries including France , Latvia , Peru , the Republic of Ireland , Russia ...
There are different affiliate groups within the convention and these promote missions growth and evangelism as well as targeting the special needs of each group . These include Baptist Men's Fellowship - BMF; Women's Missionary Union - WMU; Baptist Haven of Hope - a group for Single parents; Baptist Youth Student Department - BYSD
The Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention was established in 1897 out of the National Baptist Convention, USA. [3] The convention was named for Lott Carey (1780-1828), a former African American slave who was the first American Baptist missionary to Africa. [1] In addition, Carey established the first Baptist church in Liberia. It was named the ...
Alfred Saker (21 July 1814 in Wrotham, Kent – 12 March 1880 in Peckham) was a British Baptist missionary of the Baptist Missionary Society.In 1858 he led a Baptist Mission that relocated from the then Spanish island of Fernando Po and landed in Southern Cameroons.
In 2022, the Progressive National Baptist Convention elected Jacqueline A. Thompson as second vice president, which made her the first woman to hold an elected leadership role in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. [18] On January 22, 2024, before the Joint National Baptist Convention, the PNBC called for a ceasefire in Gaza. [19]
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.
Bill White watches as a crew with NC Baptists on Mission Disaster Relief work to remove trees from his home in Arden, N.C. on Monday, September 30, 2024.
The society was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA). [1] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. [2]