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Converge, formerly the Baptist General Conference ( BGC) and Converge Worldwide, is a Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the National Association of Evangelicals. The headquarters are in Orlando, Florida. The current president of Converge is John K. Jenkins.
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Converge is a movement of churches working to help people meet, know and follow Jesus. We do this by starting and strengthening churches together worldwide. For more than 165 years, we’ve helped churches and individuals bring life change to communities in the U.S. and around the world through church planting and discipleship multiplication ...
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We believe in the resurrection of the body, the final judgment, the eternal felicity of the righteous, and the endless suffering of the wicked. Adopted by the Baptist General Conference in 1951, reaffirmed in 1990 and amended in 1997. Read the Converge documents, policies and resolutions to learn more about our beliefs.
Mar 6, 2024 · Converge. In a historic vote, the Converge Board of Overseers has unanimously approved the appointment of Pastor John K. Jenkins, Sr. as President of Converge. Pastor Jenkins, who is the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Glenarden, is the first African American to lead our 170-year-old movement. He succeeds Scott Ridout, who resigned ...
The Story of Converge 5 Kansas and Missouri. The original nine churches with their 179 members had multiplied to 65 churches with about 3000 baptized believers. In 1883, the churches of Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska reorganized into separate state bodies. In the same year, the Swedish Baptist General Conference of the eastern states
Converge missionaries are penetrating intense spiritual darkness around the world as they lead the lost to Christ, start church planting movements and develop national leaders. Missionaries face numerous challenges in the trenches of this spiritual battle. Stress is high. Marriages are tested. Family dynamics are affected.
Converge, formerly the Baptist General Conference (BGC) and Converge Worldwide, is an evangelical Baptist Christian denomination of the Swedish Baptist tradition in United States that emerged out of Lutheranism. The denomination as an institution emerged in the late 19th Century. It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the National Association of Evangelicals. The headquarters is ...
