National Baptist Convention
Body of black Baptists organized at Saint Louis, Missouri, 1886; the Colored Free Will Baptists and Primitive Colored Baptists are included in this convention.
The purpose of the organization was
"to consider the moral, intellectual, and religious growth of the denomination, to deliberate upon the great questions which characterized the Baptist churches, and further, to advise and consider the best methods possible for bringing us more closely together as churches and as a race."
Doctrinally and administratively in harmony with the Northern and Southern Conventions, they hold more strictly to the Calvinistic doctrine, and in government refer to an ecclesiastical council the settlement of any difficulties that arise.
There is one official periodical.
Foreign mission work is carried on in Central, South, and West Africa; the West Indies; and northern South America.
See also the convention's web site.
New Catholic Dictionary
