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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 ...
The Utah–Idaho Southern Baptist Convention participates in the Cooperative Program (CP). CP is described as a tool used by God to empower the witness of Baptists in Utah and Idaho. Every Southern Baptist Church in the state is challenged to give 10% of all tithes and offerings to the Cooperative Program.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Baptist Christian denomination based in the United States. The words Southern Baptist Convention refer both to the denomination and its annual meeting of delegates. Its "confession of faith" (not binding on members or congregations) is the Baptist Faith and Message (2000 edition).
Moon has come to personify the missionary spirit for Southern Baptists and many other Christians as well. The annual Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions has raised more than $1.5 billion for missions since 1888, and finances half the international missions budget of the Southern Baptist Convention every year.
In 1981, the state's annual missions offering was named after her. Each year, the "Sue Nishikawa Offering" raises funds to support Pacific ministry. Every September, Southern Baptist Churches across Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and Okinawa voluntarily collect donations. The funds support activities across the Asia-Pacific region.
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Kansas City, Missouri) New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (New Orleans, Louisiana) Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (Wake Forest, North Carolina) Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, Kentucky) Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Fort Worth, Texas)
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CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California. [9] The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988. [ 9 ] Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.