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The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association (FBFA) is an association of independent fundamentalist African-American Baptist churches.
In 1962 Reverend Richard C. Mattox, of Cleveland, Ohio, led conservative-fundamentalist black ministers and congregations to form the Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association. The association provides fundamentalist black Baptist churches a means of fellowship in the areas of evangelism and foreign missions. Each congregation is independent and autonomous. The FBFA meets on an annual basis.
Though largely ignored by books and the internet, and sometimes confused with the predominantly white Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America, this association of churches does exist, with churches mostly in the midwestern United States.
The FundamentalFellowship was organized in 1920 as the National Federation of Fundamentalists of the Northern Baptists, during the fundamentalist/modernist controversy in the Northern Baptist Convention (NBC).
In 1946 the FundamentalistFellowship changed its name to Conservative BaptistFellowship, and was instrumental in organizing the Conservative BaptistAssociation of America in 1947 and the Conservative Baptist Home Mission Society in 1948.
The chief purposes of the Fellowship are to strengthen and promote historic fundamentalism, to defend the faith while exposing and opposing religious compromise, to promote religious liberty and to lead in evangelism and church growth.
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