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CSBC has an annual meeting with messengers from member churches around the state. Churches may only send messengers if they have given funds toward the Cooperative Program or the California Mission Offering within the last year. At this meeting, messengers elect nominated members of the Executive Board.
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 ...
In June 2023, when it requested a review of the decision, church representatives present at the annual convention voted 88% to uphold this decision. [ 21 ] The church wanted to maintain its affiliation with the California Southern Baptist Convention , [ 22 ] but in October 2023, it decided to leave the state convention as well, in a desire to ...
Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one such church from ...
During their annual convention Tuesday in Anaheim, Southern Baptists approved two resolutions to fight sex abuse.
Delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted 6,759 to 563 on Tuesday to oust First Baptist Church of Alexandria after the denomination’s credentials committee deemed the ...
[4] A part of that cost was the departure of 1,900 churches from the convention, which broke away in 1990 to form the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, a moderate Baptist group which affirms women in ordained ministry and emphasizes the Baptist principles of the autonomy of the local church, the priesthood of all believers, and soul liberty.
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 ...