Macau Baptist Convention
| Macau Baptist Convention | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 澳門浸信會聯會 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Convenção Baptista de Macau | ||||||||||
The Macau Baptist Convention (Abbr: MBC) is a cooperative association of Baptist churches in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It was until very recently known as the Macau Baptist Association (Portuguese: Associação Baptista de Macau).
It can trace its origins to the work established by the Triennial Convention missionaries, John and Henrietta Shuck, in 1835.[1] The first Baptist church was, however, only set up in 1905 when the Macau Baptist Church was planted by Charlton Todd.[2] A building was purchased in 1927 at the Rua Pedro Nolasco da Silva to house its congregation and is today also the headquarters of the MBC.[3]
The MBC currently has 6 congregations with 750 members in the territory and is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation.
See also
References
- ^ Bushnell, Lorilla E. (1909). The Story of Our Baptist Missionary Work. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ 澳門浸信教會: 本會歷史 Archived 2008-06-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Chinese)
- ^ Macao Yearbook 2003: Religion and Customs
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