American Baptist Convention (Noun)
Meaning
An association of Northern Baptists.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The American Baptist Convention established several new churches throughout the Midwest.
- In 1840, the American Baptist Missionary Union teamed up with the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions within the American Baptist Convention.
- Many individuals broke away from the American Baptist Convention in 1905.
- A lot of the churches within the American Baptist Convention saw strong decline by the early 1990s.
- Following its founding in 1814 the American Baptist Convention began some mission related work on the American frontier.