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The American Baptist Churches USA ( ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination established in 1907 originally as the Northern Baptist Convention, and from 1950 to 1972 as the American Baptist Convention. It traces its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial ...
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is an academic medical center and health system located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and part of Charlotte-based Atrium Health. It is the largest employer in Forsyth County , with more than 19,220 employees and a total of 198 buildings on 428 acres.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky.It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention.The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University.
Wayland Baptist University ( WBU) is a private Baptist university based in Plainview, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Wayland Baptist has 11 campuses in five Texas cities, six states, American Samoa, and Kenya. Chartered in 1908, it had about 4,000 students in 2021, including about 900 students on its main ...
Prestonwood was founded on February 6, 1977, in North Dallas, [2] as a mission church of Northway Baptist Church. Under founding pastor Bill Weber, [3] the new church grew considerably, and in 1979 moved into a permanent facility near the corner of Arapaho and Hillcrest Roads in Dallas. By 1988, Prestonwood had grown to 11,000 members; that ...
ETBU is located on the site of the former Van Zandt Farm at the highest altitude in Harrison County. ETBU was founded as the College of Marshall in 1912, after a campaign to create a Southern Baptist college in East Texas. The campus' first building, Marshall Hall, was completed in 1916. It was designed to house a gymnasium, library, chapel ...
The name "United Baptist" appears to have arisen from two separate unions of Baptist groups: (1) the union of Regular Baptists and Separate Baptists in Kentucky, Virginia, and the Carolinas in the United States late in the 18th century and near the turn of the 19th century, and (2) the union of Regular Baptists and Free Baptists in the Maritime Provinces of Canada near the beginning of the ...
