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The General Conference of United Free Will Baptists was formed in 1901. The United American Free Will Baptist Conference, was created in 1968 under the leadership of O. L. Williams of Lakeland, Florida, resulting from a division in the parent United American Free Will Baptist Church. [2] [3]
In 1702, a disorganized group of General Baptists in Carolina wrote a request for help to the General Baptist Association in England. Though no help was forthcoming, Paul Palmer, whose wife Johanna was the stepdaughter of Benjamin Laker, founded the first "Free Will" Baptist church in Chowan, North Carolina in 1727.
More churches were founded, and in 1792 a Yearly Meeting was organized. This northern line of Free Will Baptists expanded rapidly, but the majority of the churches merged with the Northern Baptist Convention in 1911. A remnant of the Randall churches organized in 1917 as the Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists.
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]
Free blacks and black slaves were members of predominantly white Free Will Baptist congregations of the South. African-Americans organized their first separate congregation, Shady Grove Free Will Baptist Church, at Snow Hill, Greene County, North Carolina, in 1867. The first annual conference was organized in 1870, and the first association in ...
The National Baptist Convention of America International, (NBCA Intl or NBCA) more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention of America or sometimes the Boyd Convention, is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is a predominantly African American Baptist denomination, and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. [1]
The Original Free Will Baptist Convention is a North Carolina–based body of Free Will Baptists that split from the National Association of Free Will Baptists in 1961. The Original Free Will Baptist State Convention was established in 1913. In 1935 the State Convention became a charter member of the National Association.
Overall, the National Baptist Convention continues to remain one of the largest historically and predominantly African American or Black Christian denominations in the United States; separated bodies, such as the theologically conservative-to-moderate National Baptist Convention of America, have stagnated in membership (2000's 3,500,000 members ...