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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 National Baptist Convention, USA, incorporated as the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., and more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention (NBC USA or NBC), is a Baptist Christian denomination headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee and affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.
Like a constitution, it establishes the framework for the government and operations of the church, as well as its "basic character". [7] Its by-laws are organized into 35 articles that establish the duties and responsibilities of church officers, provide guidelines and rules for Christian Science practitioners and teachers, define the ...
On November 5, 1935, the two largest groups of Free Will Baptists, the Cooperative General Association and the General Conference of Free Will Baptists merged together to form the National Association of Free Will Baptists. [1] Under the treatise, church government takes place at the congregational level.
The Convention was founded December 4, 1821 at First Baptist Church of Columbia with nine total messengers in attendance. Richard Furman was elected as the first president of the Convention and Abner Blocker was elected as Secretary. William B. Johnson and John Landrum were tasked with writing a constitution.
The Sandy Creek Separate Baptist self-organized in 1756. The Washington District Association, however, upon being organized adopted the Preambles and the Constitution of the Regular Baptists. The Old Regular Baptist Churches of today can be likewise be traced, directly or indirectly, to churches who were involved with these older associations.
The Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada was formed in 1905-1906 as the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes by a union of Free, or Free Will Baptists and Calvinistic or Regular Baptists. [2] The Regular Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations wrote a statement of faith and polity called the "Basis of Union" with which both groups ...
The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville) in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on 29 October 1778. [40] The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline. Many of Alline's followers, after his death, converted and strengthened the Baptist presence in the Atlantic ...