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The National Baptist Convention, USA, is one of four major Black Baptist denominations in the U.S. and is the oldest and largest of the four. The denomination, with between 5.2 million and 7.5 ...
Family and church members perform the laying on of hands during installation services of the Rev. Shane B. Scott at First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, June 1, 2024.
The official, full name of the Christian denomination is the National Baptist Convention of the United States America, [2] and it has been incorporated as the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Individuals and organizations affiliated or separate from the denomination commonly refer to it as the National Baptist Convention or National Baptist Convention, USA.
In January 2024, the four National Baptist bodies held the session with representation from the United States and the Bahamas. [5] During this joint meeting, Dr. Gina Stewart—president of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention—became the first woman pastor to preach before all the conventions. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Rev. Jerry Young, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, gives his farewell address as outgoing president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, which is the nation's largest ...
In 1944, the convention had 2,352,339 members, and in 2000, the National Baptist Convention of America grew to about 3.5 million members in the United States. [13] It became the third-largest predominantly African American Christian body in the United States after the National Baptist Convention, USA and the Church of God in Christ.
Rev. Jerry Young, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, gives his farewell address as outgoing president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, which is the nation's largest ...
The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association (FBFA) is an association of independent fundamentalist African-American Baptist churches.It is based in Kansas City, Kansas. [ 1 ] The FBFA was formed in 1962 [ 2 ] when Reverends Richard C. Mattox and Robert Hunter, of Cleveland, Ohio , led conservative-fundamentalist black ministers and ...