Formed at Little Rock, Arkansas in 1950 as the N Our contries Baptist Association, a Baptist Missionary Association of America adopted its todays title around 1969. This association owes its origin to the split in the American Baptist Association, & numbers of of its policies and computer softwcome are similar to the parent system. Its deepest roots can be obtained in a contention in the Baptist General Convention of Texas that resulted in the formation of the Baptist Missionary Association of Texas in 1900. A BMA of United states is section of the Landmark Baptist Church movement. Its concentration is south, sustaining a primary membership within Texas (just about 43 percent), however following of its mission function, a association has churches through a United States & throughout the world. Based on data from a BMAA Missions Department, "the sun never sets on BMA Missions." the BMAthe supports missionaries, the publisher, the seminary (many state groups have junior colleges), a youth camp, & a radio ministry. Virtually all churches participate around local & state associations likewise when this national/general system. Withwithin 2003, there were all about 234,511 members in 1,275 churches (in the United States). Foreign countries by having BMAA churches usually likewise have a national association in their several united states. This includes a rapidly-growing BMA of Africa, & a BMA of the Philippines, which has begun send its have foreign missions personnel to neighboring East Asian nations.

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Association minutes Baptists In the area of the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr. Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, Glenmary Research Center [http://www.baptistnewsservice.com Baptist News Service]