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CCF has satellite churches and small groups in other parts of the world, including North America, Australia, the Middle East, and Asia. CCF has also helped form over 600 small groups in East Asia and over 12,000 house churches and small groups in South Asia. [citation needed] In 2020, the CCF Center was attended by over 55,000 people.
The Alliance is divided into six regional or geographical fellowships: North American Baptist Fellowship, Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, Latin American Baptist Union, European Baptist Federation, Asia Pacific Baptist Federation, and All-Africa Baptist Fellowship.
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) is an international Baptist association of Christian churches with an estimated 51 million people from 266 member bodies in 134 countries and territories as of 2024. A voluntary association of Baptist churches, the BWA accounts for about half the Baptists in the world.
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. In 2022, its self-reported membership stagnated with an estimated 3.5 million members in approximately 4,000 churches according to a separate study by the Baptist World Alliance.
The International Baptist Convention has its roots in the Association of Baptists in Continental Europe founded in 1959 by Immanuel Baptist Church in Wiesbaden and Bethel International Baptist Church in Frankfurt, Germany. [1] Beginning in 1961, the International Mission Board sent a missionary couple
The founding of the IBFI resulted from a controversy involving Arlington Baptist College of Arlington, Texas, an affiliate of the World Baptist Fellowship (WBF) after Raymond W. Barber, then President of the WBF, lost a lawsuit against the college. [1]
• Christ's death on the cross made full atonement for the world's sins. Atonement also provides healing of body, soul, and spirit. • Salvation is given through the death of Christ and is received through faith toward Christ and repentance toward God. • Christians are to live a life separated and dedicated to God.
Swedenborg and Rose refer to John the Baptist to describe how he was performing baptism of repentance. John the Baptist would preach repentance along with the other disciples and the Lord himself along with performing the baptisms. If people repented then their sins were forgiven and they were welcomed into the church. [citation needed]