The first organization of Conservative Baptists was the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society (CBFMS), now called WorldVenture, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1943. The Conservative Baptist Association of America was organized in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1947. The Association now operates under the name CBAmerica. The Conservative Baptist Association emerged as part of the continuing fundamentalist/modernist controversy within the Northern Baptist Convention. The forming churches were fundamental/conservative churches that had remained in cooperation with the Northern Baptist Convention after other churches had left, such as those that formed the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches. At the 1946 NBC meeting, the old convention made it clear that it would not allow a competing missionary agency to operate within it. Churches withdrew, forming the new association, and hundreds of others withdrew in the following years. The conservatives were in the majority in Minnesota and Arizona, and the Northern Baptists lost those state agencies. The movement presently supports three national agencies - CBAmerica, WorldVenture (formerly CBFMS, then CBInternational), and the Mission To The Americas (formerly Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society). Conservative Baptists is a name used to describe members of the Conservative Baptist Association of America (an association formed in 1947 at Atlantic City, New Jersey), used loosely as the larger Conservative Baptist Movement, or used as a description of Baptists that hold a conservative viewpoint of theology in contrast... WorldVenture is a Conservative Baptist Christian mission agency established in 1943 under the name Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society (CBFMS). ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Windy City Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location Location in Chicagoland and northern Illinois Coordinates , Government Country State Counties United States Illinois Cook, DuPage Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 606. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Map of Atlantic City in Atlantic County Coordinates: Country United States State New Jersey County Atlantic Incorporated March 1854  - Mayor Bob Levy Area    - City 44. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... Conservative Baptist Association is another name used to describe CBAmerica, formed in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1947 as the Conservative Baptist Association of America. ... Fundamentalist Christianity, or Christian fundamentalism, is a movement that arose mainly within British and American Protestantism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by conservative evangelical Christians, who, in a reaction to modernism, actively affirmed a fundamental set of Christian beliefs: the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth... Modernism, modernist Christianity, and liberalism are labels applied to proponents of a school of Christian thought which rose as a direct challenge to more conservative traditional Christian orthodoxy. ... The American Baptist Churches in the USA (ABCUSA) is a group of Baptist churches within the United States; headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. ... The Northern Baptist Convention was founded in Washington, D.C. on May 17, 1907. ... General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC) - one of several Baptist groups in North America retaining the name Regular Baptist. The impact of modernism on the Northern Baptist Convention (now called American Baptist Churches in the USA) led to the eventual withdrawal of a number of conservative and fundamentalist churches. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... WorldVenture is a Conservative Baptist Christian mission agency established in 1943 under the name Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society (CBFMS). ...

CBAmerica is a network of churches and ministries, committed to evangelization and church planting. Though they work in cooperation, each individual church is autonomous. Conservative Baptists also cooperate with institutions of higher learning in the field of education, as well as promoting youth and women's ministries. In 2003, the Association has over 1200 churches and over 200,000 members. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Associated institutions

• Western Seminary, Portland, OR [1]
• Denver Seminary, Denver, CO [2]
• Southwestern College, Phoenix, AZ [3]
• Bethel Seminary of the East [4]
• New England Bible College, South Portland, ME [5]

External links

• CBAmerica Official Web Site
• Mission to the Americas
• WorldVenture

Sources

• Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
• Dictionary of Baptists in America, Bill J. Leonard, editor
• Handbook of Denominations, by Frank Mead & Samuel Hill