Baptist Groups in the United States
(February 2022 Update)
I. BLACK BAPTISTS (Historically African-American Bodies) (16)
A. Free Will Baptists
1.1. National Convention of Free Will Baptists, U.S.A.
1.2. Unified Free Will Baptist Churches, Inc.
1.3. Unison Free Will Baptist Conference, Inc.
1.4. United American Free Will Baptist Conference, Inc.
1.5. United American Free Will Baptist General Conference
1.6. United American Free Will Baptist Denomination, Inc.
B. National Baptists
1.7. Institutional Missionary Baptist Conference of America
1.8. National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.
1.9. National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
1.10. National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
1.11. Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
C. Primitive Baptists
1.12. National Primitive Baptist Convention, Inc.
1.13. Primitive Baptist - independent Black local associations
a. Antioch (GA, FL)
b. Bethlehem
c. Beulah
d. Chestnut Knob (NC, VA)
e. Coopergrove (NC)
f. Corresponding (NC)
g. Cub Run (NC, VA)
h. Ephesus
i. Flint River (GA)
j. Friendship
k. Little Lott’s Creek (GA)
l. Mount Calvary (GA, NC)
m. Mount Calvary #2
n. Mount Olive (GA)
o. Mount Pleasant (GA)
p. Mount Pleasant #2
q. Mount Ramah (GA)
r. Northeastern (PA, DC, NY, CT)
s. Northwestern (PA, OH, MI, IL)
t. Ocmulgee District (GA, NC)
u. Old Original Mt. Pleasant
v. Old School Roanoke (VA)
w. Piedmont
x. Pine Light (AR, LA, MO)
y. Radicue (NC)
z. Salem (GA)
aa. Sandy Ridge (VA)
bb. Sipsey River (AL)
cc. Spring Hill Union (AL)
dd. Union (GA)
ee. Union Line (NC)
D. Other Groups
1.14. Free for All Missionary Baptist Church, Inc. [i]
1.15. Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International [ii]
1.16. Fundamental Baptist Fellowship Association
II. GENERAL BAPTISTS (8)
A. Free Will Baptists [iii]
2.1. Independent Free Will Baptist Associations
a. Eastern Stone
b. French Broad
c. Jack’s Creek
d. John-Thomas
e. Mt. Mitchell
f. Muscle Shoals
g. Original Grand River
h. Stone Association of Central Indiana
i. Tennessee River
j. Toe River
k. Western
l. Western Stone (aka Original Stone Association)
2.2. National Association of Free Will Baptists
2.3. Original Free Will Baptist Convention
B. General Baptists
2.4. General Association of General Baptists
2.5. General Six-Principle Baptist Church
a. Historic Six-Principle Baptists [iv]
b. General Association of Six-Principle Baptist Churches, Inc. [v]
C. Other General Atonement Baptists
2.6. Separate Baptists in Christ/General Association of Separate Baptists
a. Central Indiana
b. Christian Unity (VA)
c. Mt. Olive (TN)
d. Nolynn (KY)
e. Northeast Florida
f. South Kentucky
g. West Virginia
2.7. Separate Baptists in Christ/Unaffiliated Separate Baptists
a. Ambraw (Illinois)
b. Northern Indiana
2.8. National Association of United Baptists and Related Associations [vi]
a. Ancient Christian
b. Bethel
c. Bethlehem
d. Central Missouri
e. Centerpoint
f. Mount Carmel
g. Northern United
h. Ohio Valley
i. Tri-State
j. Union
III. PRIMITIVIST AND PATTERNIST BAPTISTS (10)
A. Primitive Baptists [vii]
3.1. Primitive Baptist - Absolute Predestinarian
3.2. Primitive Baptist - Limited Predestinarian
a. “Progressive” Old Line
b. “Regular” Old Line
3.3. Primitive Baptist – Progressive [viii]
a. Central Baptist Association [ix]
b. Eastern District Association
c. Progressive Primitive Baptist (Birdwood College Related Churches)
3.4. Primitive Baptist - Universalist [x]
3.5. Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
a. Trinity River Association
b. 1 independent church
B. Regular Baptists
3.6. Old Regular Baptists
“New Salem” Old Regular Correspondence
a. Mud River
b. New Salem
c. Northern New Salem
d. Old Friendship
e. Old Indian Bottom
f. Philadelphia
g. Sardis
h. Union
Other Old Regular Baptist Associations
a. Bethel
b. Friendship
c. Indian Bottom
d. Little Dove
e. Mountain #1
f. Mountain #2
g. Original Mountain Liberty
h. Sovereign Grace
i. Thornton Union
3.7. Regular and Union Baptists
a. East Washington
b. Enterprise
c. Little River
d. Little Valley
e. Mountain Union
f. Original Mountain Union
g. Primitive
h. Union
C. Other Primitivist/Patternist Groups
3.8. General Association of Baptists [xi]
a. Duck River (Tennessee)
b. East Union (Tennessee)
c. Mt. Pleasant #1 (Alabama)
d. Mt. Pleasant #2 (Alabama)
e. Mt. Zion (Tennessee)
f. New Liberty (Tennessee)
g. Pleasant Hill Church (Kentucky)
h. Union (Tennessee)
3.9. Georgia Old Time Associations [xii]
a. Chestatee
b. Coosawattee
c. Ellijay
d. Jasper
e. New Hope
f. Pleasant Valley
3.10. United Baptist - Regular
a. Blaine Union (Kentucky)
b. Iron Hill (Kentucky)
c. Laurel River (Kentucky)
d. Little Friendship (Indiana)
e. Mt. Zion (Kentucky)
f. New Bethel (Ohio)
g. New Hope (Kentucky)
h. Paint Union (Kentucky)
i. Old Bethlehem (West Virginia)
j. Old Paint Union (Kentucky)
k. Red Bird River (Kentucky)
l. Town Creek (Alabama)
m. Tri-State Zion (Kentucky)
n. Union Bethlehem (West Virginia)
o. Wills Creek #1 (Alabama)
p. Wills Creek #2 (Alabama)
q. Zion (Kentucky)
IV. REFORMED AND SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTISTS (7)
4.1. Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
4.2. Continental Baptist Churches [xiii]
4.3. Gospel Standard Strict Baptists [xiv]
4.4. G3 Church Network [xv]
4.6. Sovereign Grace Baptist Association of Churches
4.7. Sovereign Grace Baptist Fellowship
V. REGULAR BAPTISTS (Northern-Oriented) (14)
A. Conservative Evangelical
5.1. Baptist World Mission [xvi]
5.3. Growing Healthy Churches [xviii]
5.4. North American Baptist Conference
5.5. Seventh Day Baptist General Conference
5.6. Transformation Ministries [xix]
5.7. Venture Church Network [xx]
B. Ecumenical Mainline
5.8. American Baptist Churches in the USA
a. Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists [xxi]
C. Separatist Fundamentalist
5.9. Foundations Baptist Fellowship International [xxii]
5.10. General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
5.11. Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America
5.12. New England Evangelical Baptist Fellowship [xxiii]
5.13. New England Baptist Fellowship [xxiv]
5.14. Related Northern Independent Fundamental Baptist Fellowships
a. New Testament Association of Independent Baptist Churches
b. Association of Fundamental Baptist Churches of Northern California
c. Association of Independent Baptist Churches of Illinois
d. Dakota Baptist Association
e. Grace Baptist Fellowship
f. Independent Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of Michigan [xxv]
g. Indiana Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of Churches [xxvi]
h. Intermountain Baptist Fellowship (Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
i. Minnesota Baptist Association
j. Mountain States Baptist Fellowship (Colorado)
k. Wisconsin Fellowship of Baptist Churches
l. Wyoming Fellowship of Baptist Churches
VI. REGULAR BAPTISTS (Southern- Oriented) (16)
A. Conservative Evangelical
6.1. Southern Baptist Convention [xxvii]
Semi-autonomous state conventions[xxviii]
a. Baptist General Convention of Texas
b. Baptist General Association of Virginia
c. Churchnet—A Baptist Network Serving Churches [xxix]
B. Ecumenical Mainline
6.2. Alliance of Baptists
6.3. Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
C. Landmark Separatist
6.4. American Baptist Association
6.5. Baptist Missionary Association of America
6.6. Independent/Unaffiliated Landmark Associations and Churches
a. California Missionary Baptist Association
b. Central (Texas)
c. Mt. Pisgah (Mississippi)
d. Southern California
e. Independent Landmark Missionary Baptist churches
6.7. Interstate and Foreign Landmark Missionary Baptist Association of America [xxx]
6.8. Old Time Missionary Baptist Associations
“Middle Tennessee” Correspondence
a. Baptist Old Path (Missouri)
b. Bethel (Indiana)
c. Big Bear Creek (Alabama)
d. Cane Creek (Missouri)
e. Cedar County (Missouri)
f. County Line (Missouri)
g. Dallas County (Missouri)
h. Enon (Tennessee)
i. Old Time Camden County (Missouri)
j. Polk County (Missouri)
k. Siloam (Kentucky)
l. Southwestern District (Tennessee)
m. St. Clair County (Missouri)
n. Wiseman (Tennessee)
Other Old Time Associations
a. Barren River (Kentucky)
b. Edmonson (Kentucky)
c. Mt. Carmel (Alabama)
d. Mt. Pisgah (West Virginia)
e. Mulberry Gap (Tennessee) [xxxi]
f. Original Smyrna (Georgia)
g. Pine Mountain (Kentucky)
h. Pleasant Grove (Georgia)
i. Second North Concord (Kentucky)
j. Wayne Trail (Ohio)
k. Independent “Old Time” Missionary Baptist churches
6.9. United Baptists - Landmarkist
a. Green River (Kentucky)
b. South Concord (Kentucky)
c. South Fork (Kentucky) [xxxii]
d. Stockton Valley (Tennessee)
e. West Union (Tennessee)
D. Separatist Fundamentalist
6.10. Baptist Bible Fellowship International
6.12. Global Independent Baptist Fellowship
6.13. Independent Baptist Fellowship International
6.14. Southwide Independent Baptist Fellowship
6.15. Unregistered Baptist Fellowship [xxxiii]
6.16. World Baptist Fellowship
VII. ETHNIC BAPTIST BODIES (3)
7.1 American Baptist Churches related
a. Association of Evangelicals for Italian Missions [xxxiv]
b. Convención de Iglesias Bautistas Hispanas (Convention of Hispanic Baptist Churches)
c. Czechoslovak Baptist Convention of USA and Canada [xxxv]
d. Portuguese Baptist Convention of New England [xxxvi]
e. Romanian Baptist Association of the US and Canada [xxxvii]
f. Russian-Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Union of USA
g. Union of Latvian Baptists in America [xxxviii]
7.2 Southern Baptist Convention related
a. Convención Bautista Hispana de Texas (Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas)
b. Hmong Baptist National Association
c. Japanese Southern Baptist Churches of America
d. Pacific Coast Slavic Baptist Association [xxxix]
e. Polish Baptist Association in the USA & Canada [xl]
f. Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Convention in the USA [xli]
g. Vietnamese National Baptist Fellowship, North America
7.3 Other/Unknown relationship
a. Association of Brazilian Baptist Churches in North America
b. Creek Independent Indian Baptist Churches (Oklahoma)
c. Hungarian Baptist Convention of North America, Inc.[xlii]
d. Miccosukee Independent Indian Church (Florida) [xliii]
e. Pacific Coast Slavic Baptist Association
f. Seminole Baptists of Oklahoma [xliv]
g. Seminole Independent Indian Church (Florida) [xlv]
h. Western Presbytery of the Council of Evangelical Christian-Baptists (CEC-BC)
FINAL NOTES
In addition to spending hours poring over minute books, searching textbooks, and surfing the web, I am deeply indebted to following individuals for the wealth of information they gathered, put in writing, and shared (including personal correspondence) concerning Baptists in the United States:
- John Crowley
- Howard Dorgan
- Robert G. Gardner
- Clifford A. Grammich, Jr.
- Robert E. Picirilli
- Chester Raymond Young
- Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
- Jeff Weaver
- Robert Webb
Some Baptist churches affiliate with multi-denominational organizations, such as the Fellowship of Independent Reformed Evangelicals and the IFCA International (formerly Independent Fundamental Churches of America). Numerous Baptist churches exist across the country which neither affiliate with any kind of organization, nor have a distinguishing identity beyond the moniker “Baptist.” Some of them probably do not fit well into any of the categories above. Some have “Baptist” in their names – relating to their practice of adult immersion – but may not fit the understanding of what are primarily considered Baptist churches. Efforts to classify Baptists always have short-comings; hopefully this effort will prove useful.
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