Garo Baptist Convention

Garo Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination of India and Bangladesh. It is named after the ethnic group of the name Garo. Most members of this church are in Meghalaya. In Bangladesh the central office of the GBC is located in Birisiri under the suburban area Susong Durgapur of Netrokona District, it was established in the year of 1890.

Garo Baptist Convention
AbbreviationGBC
ClassificationEvangelicalism
TheologyBaptist
PresidentMr. Knudsenberg Ch. Momin
General SecretaryRev Janang R. Sangma
AssociationsCouncil of Baptist Churches in Northeast India, Baptist World Alliance
RegionMeghalaya, Assam, Bangladesh
LanguageGaro
HeadquartersTura, India
FounderAmerican Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Congregations2,619
Members333,908
Part of a series on
Baptists
Baptism at Northolt Park Baptist Church, in Greater London, Baptist Union of Great Britain, 2015.
Background
Doctrine
Key figures
Organizations
icon Christianity portal

History

The Garo Baptist Convention consists of churches planted by the American Baptist missionaries since the mid-19th century in the state of Meghalaya.

Garo Baptist Convention is also a member of the Council of Baptist Churches in North-East India or CBCNEI, an umbrella organization of Baptist Churches in North-East India, which has other sister Baptist Associations such as the Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Karbi-Anglong Baptist Convention and Arunachal Baptist Church Council.

In Bangladesh there are 12,340 members, the other Baptist conventions are Bangladesh Baptist Church Sangha (member 15,000) and Bangladesh Baptist Fellowship.

Memberships

The Garo Baptist Convention had 2,619 churches and 333,908 baptized members in 2020.[1]

Institutions
Harding Theological College at Tura, Meghalaya

GBC runs the Harding Theological College in Tura, Meghalaya. GBC also runs the J.N.B. Memorial Baptist Training Institute in Birishiri, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.[2]

See also

References
  1. BWA Statistics - GBC
  2. Baptist Colleges, Seminaries, and Bible Schools Archived 3 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Baptist World Alliance


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.