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In 1702, a disorganized group of General Baptists in Carolina wrote a request for help to the General Baptist Association in England. Though no help was forthcoming, Paul Palmer, whose wife Johanna was the stepdaughter of Benjamin Laker, founded the first "Free Will" Baptist church in Chowan, North Carolina in 1727.
1923 Articles of Faith Put Forth by the Baptist Bible Union (defunct fundamentalist group within ABC) 1925 Baptist Faith and Message - revised in 1963, 1998 and 2000; 1935 Treatise on the Faith and Practice of the Free Will Baptists; 1985 Doctrinal Statement of the Brazilian Baptists, 1985, Brazilian Baptist Convention.
The largest group of Baptist churches is the Baptist World Alliance, and there are many different groupings of Baptist churches and Baptist congregations. Historians trace the earliest Baptist church to 1609 in Amsterdam , with English Separatist John Smyth as its pastor. [ 3 ]
According to a census published by the Baptist World Alliance in 2023, it self-reported a total of 21,145 churches and 8,415,100 members, [29] although the Association of Religion Data Archives reported a membership of 1,567,741 in 2020.
The Baptist World Alliance was founded in London, during this first Baptist World Congress in July 1905. Every five years since, the BWA holds a Baptist World Congress in different locations around the world, and multiple international meeting and programs are held in the times between Congresses. [6] [7] [8] [9]
1947 – Whitby World Missionary Conference in Canada; [375] Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society begins work among the Senufo people in the Ivory Coast [376] 1948 – Alfredo del Rosso merges his Italian Holiness Mission with the Church of the Nazarene , thus opening Nazarene work on the European continent; Southern Baptist Convention ...
William H. Brackney, Historical Dictionary of the Baptists, Scarecrow Press, USA, 2009 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 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) is a Baptist Christian denomination in United States, established after the conservative resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, and headquartered in Decatur, Georgia. According to a census published in 2023, the CBF claimed 1,800 churches and ...