Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches

Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches
Classification	Protestant
Polity	Congregational
Associations	21
Region	Atlantic Canada
Origin	1846
Congregations	538
Members	62,000

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Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches (CABC) - an association of Baptist Churches in the eastern provinces of Canada.

History

The Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces was founded in 1846. The Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches was formed in 1905-1906 as the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes by a union of Free, or Free Will Baptists and Calvinistic or Regular Baptists. The Regular Baptist and Free Will Baptist congregations wrote a statement of faith and polity called the "Basis of Union" with which both groups could agree. With the addition of Newfoundland to Canada in 1949, the name was changed to the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. Many of these churches still carry United Baptist in their official name. The Convention joined with two other conventions in 1944 to form the Canadian Baptist Federation (now known as Canadian Baptist Ministries).

Organization

The largest regional union in Canada, in 2003 the CABC consists of over 62,000 members in 538 churches and 21 associations across the Atlantic provinces (New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia & Prince Edward Island). The CABC is subdivided into seven regions for local cooperation. According to Article I of the Constitution of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, it is "composed of those bodies which have agreed to work together upon the basis of the historic Baptist position that the Bible is the all-sufficient ground of faith and practice".

The offices of the CABC are located in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Library and Archives

Crandall University houses the Baptist Heritage Center whose 300 artifacts preserve the material history of Atlantic Baptists, the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, and its predecessor organizations. The collection and archives includes objects used in worship services, furniture, musical instruments, church building architecture pictures and printed material.^[1]

Sources

Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.

Constitution, Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches

The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness, by H. Leon McBeth

External links

Official website

References

↑ Baptist Heritage Center

Baptist denominations in Canada

Baptist General Conference of Canada Canadian Baptist Ministries Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec Canadian Baptists of Western Canada Canadian National Baptist Convention Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches Covenanted Baptist Church of Canada Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of Quebec North American Baptist Conference Primitive Baptist Conference of New Brunswick, Maine and Nova Scotia Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Convention of Canada Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada Union of Slavic Churches of Evangelical Christians and Slavic Baptists of Canada

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