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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 ...
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Now a member of The Riverside Church in New York City, a dually-aligned American Baptist-United Church of Christ congregation. Press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson , later publisher of Newsday , and well-known journalist and TV commentator (CBS and PBS).
The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO), now known simply as Oklahoma Baptists, is a group of churches affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1] The convention is made up of 41 Baptist associations and around 1,750 churches as of 2020.
Lifeway Research, a division of the SBC’s publishing arm, said in its annual church profile on Tuesday there were 46,906 Southern Baptist churches and 12.9 million members in 2023, down from 13. ...
However, the Baptist General Convention of Texas's refusal to endorse the more conservative leanings of SBC leadership led the Southern Baptists of Texas to organize a separate state convention in November 1998. The new state convention, though autonomous, immediately formed closer partnerships with the entities of the SBC, similar to most ...
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