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The name "United Baptist" appears to have arisen from two separate unions of Baptist groups: (1) the union of Regular Baptists and Separate Baptists in Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas in the United States late in the 18th century and near the turn of the 19th century, and (2) the union of Regular Baptists and Free Baptists in the Maritime Provinces of Canada near the beginning of the ...
First Baptist Church of Flint, known since 1960s as Woodside Church formed 1830s until 2018, at 1509 E Court Street. Flint, MI Oldest Baptist Church in Flint, now American Baptist, Alliance of Baptists and United Church of Christ.
The Baptist churches in America, like the country, split in two over the issue of slavery in the United States. In 1840, the Board of Managers of the Baptist General Convention for Foreign Missions repeated that the slavery question, which it never mentions by name, is not relevant to their work.
Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010 J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices , ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010
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 ...
Around 1638 Roger Williams founded the First Baptist Church in America in nearby Providence, after being exiled from Massachusetts in 1636. In 1638 John Clarke, a minister, from Great Britain, started leading worship in nearby Portsmouth, Rhode Island (Newport County) after he and his congregation were exiled from Massachusetts after disagreements with the Puritan leadership.
Mount Zion Baptist Church Nashville: TN Joseph W. Walker III 21,000 [3] Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship: New Birth Missionary Baptist Church: Stonecrest: GA Jamal H. Bryant 10,000 [33] Baptist: New Hope Christian Fellowship: Honolulu: HI Wayne Cordeiro 14,500 [citation needed] Foursquare Church: Yes (>100 + online) New Life Church Conway ...
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