Garo Baptist Convention

Garo Baptist Convention
Garo Baptist Convention
Abbreviation	GBC
Classification	Evangelicalism
Theology	Baptist
President	Mr. Knudsenberg Ch. Momin
General Secretary	Rev Janang R. Sangma
Associations	Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India, Baptist World Alliance
Region	Meghalaya, Assam, Bangladesh
Language	Garo
Headquarters	Tura, India
Founder	American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Congregations	2,619
Members	333,908

Garo Baptist Convention is a Baptist Christian denomination of India and Bangladesh. It is named after the ethnic group of the name Garo. Most members of this church are in Meghalaya. In Bangladesh the central office of the GBC is located in Birisiri under the suburban area Susong Durgapur of Netrokona District, it was established in the year of 1890.

History[]

The Garo Baptist Convention consists of churches planted by the American Baptist missionaries since the mid-19th century in the state of Meghalaya.^{[citation needed]}

Garo Baptist Convention is also a member of the Council of Baptist Churches in North-East India or CBCNEI, an umbrella organization of Baptist Churches in North-East India, which has other sister Baptist Associations such as the Nagaland Baptist Church Council, Karbi-Anglong Baptist Convention and Arunachal Baptist Church Council.

In Bangladesh there are 12,340 members, the other Baptist conventions are Bangladesh Baptist Church Sangha (member 15,000) and Bangladesh Baptist Fellowship.

Memberships[]

The Garo Baptist Convention had 2,619 churches and 333,908 baptized members in 2020.^[1]

Institutions[]

Harding Theological College at Tura, Meghalaya

GBC runs the Harding Theological College in Tura, Meghalaya. GBC also runs the J.N.B. Memorial Baptist Training Institute in , Mymensingh, Bangladesh.^[2]

References[]

^ BWA Statistics - GBC
^ Baptist Colleges, Seminaries, and Bible Schools, Baptist World Alliance

External links[]

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[1] BWA Statistics - GBC

[2] Baptist Colleges, Seminaries, and Bible Schools, Baptist World Alliance

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