Southern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), alternatively the Great Commission Baptists (GCB), is a Christian denomination based in the United States. It is the world's largest Baptist organization and the largest Protestant and second-largest Christian body in the United States. The SBC is a cooperation of fully autonomous, independent churches with commonly held essential beliefs that pool some resources for missions.
First Baptist Church in Charleston, South Carolina
Gillfield Baptist Church was the largest Black American congregation within the Portsmouth Association of the Triennial Convention, preceding the north–south split and formation of Southern Baptists
First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky
First African Baptist Church, Savannah, Georgia, constructed 1856
Baptists form a major branch of evangelical Protestantism distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul competency, sola fide, sola scriptura and congregationalist church government. Baptists generally recognize two ordinances: baptism and communion.
A Short Declaration of the Mistery of Iniquity (1612) by Thomas Helwys. For Helwys, religious liberty was a right for everyone, even for those he disagreed with.
The First Baptist Church in America located in Providence, Rhode Island
Baptist Hospital Mutengene (Tiko), member of the Cameroon Baptist Convention
The Finnish-language Baptist Church in Vaasa, Finland
