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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 ...
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Universities and colleges affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA (1 C, 14 P) Pages in category "American Baptist Churches USA" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
A key doctrinal position of the churches of the American Baptist Association that sets them apart from many other Baptist groups is the practice of closed communion, also known as "Restricted Lord's Supper," in which the ordinance of communion is restricted to members of the local church body observing the ordinance. [18]
American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA), formed (as the Northern Baptist Convention) in 1907; American Baptist Association, formed 1924; American Baptist College, Nashville, Tennessee, formed 1924 by the National Baptist Convention, USA; American Baptist International Ministries, a missionary society; Any Baptist who is an American: Baptists in ...
The International Ministries was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA). [19] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. [ 20 ]
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The split created the Southern Baptist Convention, while the northern congregations formed their own umbrella organization now called the American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA). [45] In 2015, Baptists in the U.S. number 50 million people and constitute roughly one-third of American Protestants. [46]