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South Carolina Baptist Convention
Abbreviation
SCBaptist
Classification
Baptist
Orientation
Southern Baptist
Region
South Carolina
Origin
1821 Columbia, South Carolina
Members
Dr. Tony Wolfe (Executive Director-Treasurer)
Official website
www.scbaptist.org
The South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBaptist) is a group of churches cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention, located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, the Convention is made up of 42 Baptist associations and around 2,000 churches as of 2023.
The Convention was founded December 4, 1821 at First Baptist Church of Columbia with nine total messengers in attendance. Richard Furman was elected as the first president of the Convention and Abner Blocker was elected as Secretary. William B. Johnson and John Landrum were tasked with writing a constitution. On Thursday December 6, 1821, the Constitution was adopted. In 1822, William Bullein Johnson was elected as the first vice-president of the Convention. At this time, there were 213 churches and 122 pastors across seven associations.[1]
Furman's pupil, William Bullein Johnson, who served from 1825 to 1852, succeeded him upon his death and became the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851 after the split with the Triennial Convention over the issue of slavery.[2]
As of 2000, there were 1,878 churches cooperating with the Southern Baptist Convention in South Carolina with 928,341 adherents.[3]
^B. Carlisle Driggers, A Journey of Faith & Hope (Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 2000) 53-54.
^"William Bullein Johnson: An Advocate of the Priesthood of Believers" (PDF). Dramatic Distinctives. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
^"State Membership Report - South Carolina". The Association of Religion Data Archives. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
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