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The Baptist Bible Union (BBU) of 1923 was the forerunner to the GARBC. The final meeting of the BBU in 1932 in Chicago was the first meeting of the GARBC. [1] The Association publishes Regular Baptist Press, a church education curriculum and the association's bimonthly magazine, the Baptist Bulletin. In 2018, the GARBC had over 1,200 member ...
Venture Church Network (formerly the Conservative Baptist Association of America) 200,000 1,200 1947 [40] Continental Baptist Churches: Evangelical Converge (formerly Baptist General Conference, Swedish Baptist Church in America, Swedish Baptist Conference) 147,500 1,071 1852 [41] Mainline Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) 1800 1991 [36]
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, a prominent African-American artist and writer, taught at the school for twenty-three years. She and her husband co-founded the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, located on Chicago's South Side. [79] DuSable Hall, built in 1968, on the campus of Northern Illinois University is also named for him. [80]
During its heyday, the church was the largest African-American church in the United States, and the largest Protestant congregation in the world. [4] The congregation increased greatly in size in the 1920s due to the Great Migration , when the church provided services and structure to Southern blacks who had relocated to the north, bringing the ...
Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries.
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 ...
1803 – The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Society votes to publish a missionary magazine. Now known as The American Baptist, the periodical is the oldest religious magazine in the U.S. 1804 – British and Foreign Bible Society formed; [210] Church Missionary Society enters Sierra Leone, sending 4 German Lutherans. [211] [212]
Butler, Jon, et al. Religion in American Life: A Short History (2011) Dolan, Jay P. The American Catholic Experience (1992) Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity (1989). excerpt and text search; Johnson, Paul, ed. African-American Christianity: Essays in History, (1994) complete text online free