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California Southern Baptist Convention

California Southern Baptist Convention

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The California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC) is the state convention of the Southern Baptist Convention in California.[1] The CSBC controls and financially supports California Baptist University.[2][3] CSBC's executive director leading day-to-day operations of the convention is Bill Agee.

Name

CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California.[4] The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988.[4] Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.[3][5]

References

  1. [1]
    "State Conventions and Local Associations: Alaska". Southern Baptist Convention. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  2. [2]
    "CBU at a Glance". California Baptist University. Archived from the original on 2010-07-26. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  3. [3]
    Barone, Terry (November 20, 2007). "California Baptists adopt budget, reject bill related to Baptist Faith and Message". Associated Baptist Press. Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
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    "History & Facts". California Southern Baptist Convention. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  5. [5]
    "California's Southern Baptists keep name". Lodi News-Sentinel. Associated Press. November 7, 1999. p. 7.

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