California Southern Baptist Convention
The California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC) is the state convention of the Southern Baptist Convention in California.[1] The CSBC controls and financially supports California Baptist University.[2][3] CSBC's executive director leading day-to-day operations of the convention is Bill Agee.
Name
CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California.[4] The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988.[4] Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.[3][5]
References
- ^ "State Conventions and Local Associations: Alaska". Southern Baptist Convention. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ^ "CBU at a Glance". California Baptist University. Archived from the original on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ^ Associated Baptist Press. Archived from the originalon 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ^ a b "History & Facts". California Southern Baptist Convention. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
- ^ "California's Southern Baptists keep name". Lodi News-Sentinel. Associated Press. November 7, 1999. p. 7.
Further reading
- "California Southern Baptist Convention". Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists. Vol. 3. ISBN 978-0-8054-6556-3.
External links
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