Baptist Bible Fellowship International

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Baptist Bible Fellowship International
Classification	Baptist
Orientation	Fundamentalist Baptist
Polity	Congregationalist
President	Jon Haley
1st Vice President	John Theisen
2nd Vice President	Kevin Carson
3rd Vice President	Randy Abell
Origin	1950
Separated from	World Baptist Fellowship
Congregations	4,000
Ministers	4,340
Official website	bbfi.org

The Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) is a conservative Baptist Christian denomination. It is headquartered in Springfield, Missouri.

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History

The Fellowship was founded during a meeting at Fort Worth 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 (now Mission University) and the organization's headquarters were established in Springfield, Missouri. 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 Baptist confession of faith. Their beliefs are part of the fundamentalist movement.

References

W. Glenn Jonas Jr., The Baptist River, Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 113
J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010, p. 284
Samuel S. Hill, Charles H. Lippy, Charles Reagan Wilson, Encyclopedia of Religion in the South, Mercer University Press, USA, 2005, p. 100
BBFI Missions, About, USA, retrieved September 5, 2021
"Randy Harp new leader of Tribune and BBFI communications". 26 October 2015.
Baptist Bible Fellowship International, Articles of faith, USA, retrieved September 5, 2021
Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 357

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