National Baptist Convention
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (abbreviated: NBC USA ) is an American Baptist congregation federation .
The church is one of the largest churches among African Americans and is the second largest Baptist community in the world after the Southern Baptist Convention . For NBC USA are 41,000 municipalities with more than 7.5 million members.
history
The Foreign Mission Baptist Convention was founded in Montgomery , Alabama in 1880 . Elias Camp Morris (1855–1922) helped found the Foreign Mission Baptist Convention . On September 28, 1895, the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. was created through the merger of the Foreign Mission Convention , the American National Baptist Convention (founded in 1886) and the Baptist Education Convention (founded in 1893).
Two organizations split off in the 20th century: the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. (founded in 1915) and the Progressive National Baptist Convention (founded in 1961).
President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
| President | Data |
|---|---|
| WH Alpine | 1880-1882 |
| JQA Wilhite | 1882-1883 |
| YES Foster | 1883-1884 |
| WA Brinkley | 1884-1885 |
| William J. Simmons | 1885-1890 |
| EW Brawley | 1890-1891 |
| M. Vann | 1891-1893 |
| Elias Camp Morris | 1895-1922 |
| LK Williams | 1924-1940 |
| David V. Jemison | 1940-1953 |
| Joseph H. Jackson | 1954-1982 |
| Theodore Judson Jemison | 1983-1994 |
| Henry Lyons | 1994-1999 |
| Stewart Cleveland Cureton | 1999 |
| William J. Shaw | 1999-2009 |
| Julius R. Scruggs | 2009- |
links
The National Baptists belong to the World Council of Churches , the National Council of Churches in the USA, and the World Baptist Federation .
literature
- OD Pelt: The Story of the National Baptists
- Albert W. Wardin, Jr .: Baptists Around the World
- Bill J. Leonard: Dictionary of Baptists in America
- Salvatore, Nick: Singing in a Strange Land: CL Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America , Little Brown, 2005, ISBN 0-316-16037-7