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 Baptist Christian association of churches in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It is a member of the Baptist World Alliance.
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]
In 1952,the Macau Baptist Mission was founded. [4]
According to a census published by the association in 2023,it claimed 6 churches and 750 members. [5]
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