The Cameroon Baptist Convention is a

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Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

. It is affiliated with the

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. The headquarters is in

Bamenda Bamenda, also known as Abakwa and Mankon Town, is a city in northwestern Cameroon and capital of the Northwest Region, Cameroon, Northwest Region. The city has a population of about 2 million people and is located north-west of the Cameroonian ca ...

History

The Convention had its origins in a mission of the

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in 1841 by English and Jamaican missionaries including

Joseph Jackson Fuller The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller (1825–1908), Baptist missionary to the pre-colonial African Chiefdoms of the Cameroons, was one of the earliest slaves to be freed in Jamaica (initially under the partial freedoms of the "apprenticeship act") ...

and

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. In 1931, the mission was taken over by the

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. In 1954, the Cameroon Baptist Convention was formally founded. According to a denomination census released in 2020, it claimed 228,655 members and 1,537 churches.

Health Services

The convention has hospitals and health centers in 8 regions of Cameroon, gathered in the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services.

Schools

The convention has 19 primary schools, 12 secondary schools. It also has 4 professional training institutes. It has 1 theological institute affiliate, the Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary founded in 1947 in Ndu. Cameroon Baptist Convention
Seminaries
cameroonbaptistconvention.org, Cameroon, retrieved October 22, 2022

References

External links

Official Website
{{Baptist World Alliance Members Baptist denominations in Africa Evangelicalism in Cameroon Christian denominations in Cameroon