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The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville) in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on 29 October 1778. [40] The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline. Many of Alline's followers, after his death, converted and strengthened the Baptist presence in the Atlantic ...
Baptists practice believer's baptism and the Lord's Supper (communion) as the ordinances instituted in Scripture (Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26). [5] [additional citation(s) needed] Most Baptists call them "ordinances" (meaning "obedience to a command that Christ has given us") [6] [7] instead of "sacraments" (activities God uses to impart salvation or a means of grace to the participant).
This was the third building of the First Baptist Church. The church had a tower 120 feet high with Amherst sandstone exterior. The church was built debt-free when the cornerstone was laid on September 29, 1889. [7] In 1900, seventeen members of the church formed the East Cleveland Baptist Church.
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 Old Regular Baptist Churches of Jesus Christ in the United States, along with the Regular Primitive Baptists, trace their history to churches that sprang up in the American Colonies. These early churches had been organized as Regular Baptist Churches and Separate Baptist Churches in Christ, and were found from New England to Georgia.
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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. It traces its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial ...
Memory and Hope: Strands of Canadian Baptist History. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-88920-267-2. Kevin Bauder (2012). Baptist Distinctives and New Testament Church Order. Regular Baptist Press. ISBN 978-1-60776-583-7. Kevin Bauder; Robert Delnay (2014). One in Hope and Doctrine: Origins of Baptist Fundamentalism 1870—1950. Regular ...