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North American Baptist Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | German Baptist Churches were organized in Illinois, Missouri, New York, Ontario, and Wisconsin in the 1840's and early 1850's. |
 | | The churches organized a conference in 1851 in Philadelphia, named the "Conference of Ministers and Helpers of German Churches of Baptized Christians, usually called Baptists." Another conference was formed in 1859 in Springfield, Illinois. |
 | | The NABC had 64,565 members in 444 churches in the United States and Canada in 2002 (137 churches with 16,859 members in Canada and 307 churches with 47,706 members in the U.S.). |
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