The Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) is a conservative

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. It is headquartered in

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History

The Fellowship was founded during a meeting in 1950 at

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in 1950 by a group of 100 pastors of the World Baptist Fellowship who disagreed with the authoritative direction of the leader. That same year, the Baptist Bible College and the organization's headquarters were established in

. It has established various fundamentalists Baptist Bible churches around the world. In 2000, it had 4,500 churches and 1,200,000 members. According to a denomination census released in 2020, it has 4,000 churches in the United States and has a presence in 80 countries.

Programs

There are three functions of the Baptist Bible Fellowship International. Worldwide missions, training, and communication. The Baptist Bible Tribune, published monthly, contains numerous opinion pieces, reports from the foreign mission field, reports from domestic churches, and light theological treatises. It is written by BBFI officers, pastors, and missionaries and is the official voice of the BBFI. Since 2015, the editor is Randy Harp who was preceded by Keith Bassham. The organizational structure includes the president, vice-presidents, secretary, treasurer, and one director from each state elected by his own state fellowship. Within this organization, there are state fellowships in each of the fifty United States.

Beliefs

The Fellowship has a

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. Their beliefs are part of the fundamentalist movement.Robert E. Johnson, ''A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches'', Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 357

References

External links

Baptist Bible Fellowship International Web SiteBaptist Bible Fellowship Missions Web SiteBaptist Bible TribuneProfile of BBFI on the Association of Religion Data Archives website
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