Southern Baptist Convention Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Missions agencies=== The denomination was organized in 1845 primarily for the purpose of creating a mission board to support the sending of Baptist missionaries, albeit slaveholding missionaries. The [[North American Mission Board]], or NAMB, (founded as the Domestic Mission Board, and later the Home Mission Board) in [[Alpharetta, Georgia]] serves missionaries involved in [[evangelism]] and [[church planting]] in the U.S. and Canada, while the [[International Mission Board]], or IMB, (originally the Foreign Mission Board) in [[Richmond, Virginia]], sponsors missionaries to the rest of the world. Baptist Men is the mission organization for men in the convention's churches, and is under the North American Mission Board. The [[Woman's Missionary Union]], founded in 1888, is an auxiliary to the national convention, which helps facilitate two large annual missions offerings: the [[Annie Armstrong]] Easter Offering (for North American missions) and the [[Lottie Moon]] Christmas Offering (for international missions). Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page