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Other major Free Will Baptist groups include: Original Free Will Baptist Convention – a North Carolina–based body of Free Will Baptists that was organized in 1913 and initially joined the National Association of Free Will Baptists but split in 1961 due to some inner differences. The Convention comprised the majority of North Carolina ...
More churches were founded, and in 1792 a Yearly Meeting was organized. This northern line of Free Will Baptists expanded rapidly, but the majority of the churches merged with the Northern Baptist Convention in 1911. A remnant of the Randall churches organized in 1917 as the Cooperative General Association of Free Will Baptists.
Original Free Will Baptist Convention: 33,066 236 1961 [36] Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church: 150 1959 [54] Primitive Baptist Universalists: Primitive Baptists: 72,000 1,000 [55] 1827 [36] Historically Black Progressive National Baptist Convention: 1,010,000 1,500 1961 [56] Progressive Primitive Baptists: Reformed Baptist: 8,000 200 1967 ...
East Mississippi State Baptist Convention; General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi, Inc. [29] Mid-South Churches Cooperative Conference (Baptist) State Convention [30] Mississippi General Missionary Baptist State Convention; New Educational State Convention of Mississippi; North Mississippi Baptist Education Convention [31]
The National Baptist Convention of America International, (NBCA Intl or NBCA) more commonly known as the National Baptist Convention of America or sometimes the Boyd Convention, is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is a predominantly African American Baptist denomination, and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. [1]
According to an Alliance census released in 2023, the BWA has 253 participating Baptist fellowships in 130 countries, with 176,000 churches and 51,000,000 baptized members. [1]
In 2022, the Progressive National Baptist Convention elected Jacqueline A. Thompson as second vice president, which made her the first woman to hold an elected leadership role in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. [18] On January 22, 2024, before the Joint National Baptist Convention, the PNBC called for a ceasefire in Gaza. [19]
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.