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The earliest precursor to the SBTC was the Conservative Baptist Fellowship of Texas. Members of that fellowship joined other conservative Southern Baptists to form the Southern Baptists of Texas in 1995. This group operated within the Baptist General Convention of Texas until a new entity the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention was founded in ...
A new white paper study found a 14-year-old Southern Baptist Convention initiative aimed at combating declining baptisms yielded little-to-no change, a disappointing outcome in what prominent ...
Lifeway Research, a division of the SBC’s publishing arm, said in its annual church profile on Tuesday there were 46,906 Southern Baptist churches and 12.9 million members in 2023, down from 13. ...
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 ...
Texas: Baptist General Convention of Texas: Southern Baptists of Texas Convention: Utah: Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention: Idaho: Virginia: Baptist General Association of Virginia: Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia: West Virginia: West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists: Wyoming: Wyoming Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention delegates, known as messengers, gather on Tuesday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans for the denomination's 2023 annual meeting.
The Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), the largest of the Southern Baptist state conventions, did not vote in 1998 to align itself with the CBF, despite some reports to the contrary. The BGCT did allow individual churches to designate their missions dollars to a number of different missions organizations, including the SBC and CBF.
Bryant Wright - Southern Baptist Convention President 2010–2012; Homer Edwin Young - President of the Southern Baptist Convention (1992–1994), serves as Head Pastor of Second Baptist Church Houston, is an author, and is the creator of the broadcast ministry, the Winning Walk