Colorado Baptist General Convention

The Colorado Baptist General Convention (CBGC or BGCC for Baptist General Convention of Colorado) is the autonomous state convention for the state of Alabama that is under the umbrella of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was formed, in 1955, out of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, pursuant to a motion submitted at the Arizona convention by Roy Sutton (at the time a convention staff member who was later to be executive director and treasurer).^[1][2][3] At the time, the Arizona convention covered a quarter of the whole United States, by area.^[4]

References

1. ^ A history of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, 1928–1984. Arizona Southern Baptist Convention. 1989. pp. 186–187,202. 
2. ^ "Roy Sutton, dead at 95, was longtime leader in the West". Baptist Press. 2004-05-17. http://bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=18291. 
3. ^ Jesse C. Fletcher (1994). The Southern Baptist Convention: a sesquicentennial history. Broadman & Holman. pp. 188. ISBN 9780805411676. 
4. ^ Walker L. Knight (1979) (PDF). Southern Baptists Nationwide. The Baptist Heritage Series. pp. 5. http://www.churchplantingvillage.net./atf/cf/{0938A074-4176-42D7-8428-77A665D9544E}/Southern_Baptists_Nationwide.pdf. 

Further reading

• Davis C. Wooley, ed (1958). "Colorado Baptist Convention". Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists. 3. Broadman Press. pp. 1658–1659. ISBN 9780805465112. 
• Bonnie Ball O'Brien (1981). History of Colorado Baptist General Convention, 1956–1981. Colorado Baptist General Convention.