Southern Baptist Convention

Since its organization in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has grown to more than 16 million members who worship in more than 42,000 churches in the United States. Southern Baptists sponsor about 5,000 missionaries serving the United States, Canada, Guam and the Caribbean, as well as sponsoring more than 5,000 additional missionaries in 153 nations of the world.

Working through 1,200 local associations and 41 state conventions and fellowships, Southern Baptists share a common bond of basic biblical beliefs and a commitment to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ to the entire world.

You become a Southern Baptist by uniting with a Southern Baptist church, one in friendly cooperation with the general Southern Baptist enterprise of reaching the world for Christ. Typically church membership is a matter of accepting Jesus as your Savior and Lord and experiencing believer's baptism by immersion.