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The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) is a Baptist Christian denomination in United States, established after the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, and headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. According to a census published in 2023, the CBF claimed 1,800 churches and ...
The Georgia Baptist Mission Board is an association of Baptist churches in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention . Formed in 1822, it was one of the original nine state conventions to send delegates to the first Southern Baptist Convention , organized in 1845.
The Frontier Camp Meeting: Religion's Harvest Time (1955) online edition; Kidd, Thomas S. and Barry Hankins. Baptists in America: A History (2015) Leonard, Bill J. Baptist Ways: A History (2003), comprehensive international history; Leonard, Bill J. Baptists in America. (2005), general survey and history by leading Southern Baptist
The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 as the Northern Baptist Convention, and named the American Baptist Convention from 1950 to 1972. Tracing its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention ...
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.
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 ...
When the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News published the 2019 exposé "Abuse of Faith," documenting how the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) spent more than 20 years covering up ...
Regional Summer Youth Camps began in the denomination in 1947 in Georgia. They were organized with the acronym PBYF which stands for Primitive Baptist Youth Fellowship. Camps are owned by the denominational churches in four states; Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. A youth camp is held the first week in June for the Central States each year.