Everything about United American Free Will Baptist Church totally explained
United American Free Will Baptist Church is the oldest national body of predominantly black Free Will Baptists, also called the
United American Free Will Baptist Denomination.
The
Free Will Baptist Church in America grew up on two separate fronts - north & south. In the south, the denomination began in 1727 when Paul Palmer started a church in
Chowan,
North Carolina. The work in the north began with a congregation organized by
Benjamin Randall in 1780 at
New Durham, New Hampshire. Though they arose independently and there was no organizational connection between them, both taught the doctrines of free grace, free salvation and
free will.
Free blacks and black slaves were members of predominantly white Free Will Baptist congregations of the south. African-Americans organized their first separate congregation, Shady Grove Free Will Baptist Church, at Snow Hill, Greene County,
North Carolina in
1867. The first annual conference was organized in 1870, and the first association in 1887. The first General Conference for United Free Will Baptists convened at St. John's church in
Kinston, North Carolina on May 8, 1901. The greatest strength of this body is in North Carolina, where it maintains headquarters & a tabernacle and operates Kinston College in Kinston, NC. There are about 50,000 members in 250 churches. The General Conference has published a book of discipine since 1903, and publishes a periodical called
The Free Will Baptist Advocate. The United American Free Will Baptist Church is a member of the
National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches (org. 1934).
In
1968, a division brought about a second group of black Free Will Baptists, the
United American Free Will Baptist Conference.
Sources
- Encyclopedia of African-American Religions, Larry G. Murphy, et al., editors
- Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor
- Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
- Dictionary of Baptists in America, Bill J. Leonard, editor
Other Recommended Source:
- "The History and Theology of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches" (Master's Thesis, Union Theological Seminary [NewYork, NY]), Spurgeon E. Crayton
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