Baptist World Alliance 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! ==Organisational structure== The Alliance is divided into six regional or geographical fellowships: North American Baptist Fellowship, Caribbean Baptist Fellowship, Latin American Baptist Union, [[European Baptist Federation]], [[Asia Pacific Baptist Federation]], and All-Africa Baptist Fellowship.<ref>Baptist World Alliance, [https://www.baptistworld.org/regional-fellowships/ Regional Fellowships], baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved November 5, 2022</ref> Each regional fellowship is served by an Executive Secretary. ===List of general secretaries=== In the initial stages of the Baptist World Alliance, the role of General Secretary was split into two geographical regions. In 1928, these positions were merged into a single general secretary role.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Baptists Together in Christ 1905-2005 |last=Pierard |first=Richard V. |publisher= |year=2005 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A163334552/EAIM?u=anon~6a7e08d5&sid=sitemap&xid=2d7a2bf5}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" ! Name !! Term !! Country |- | colspan="3" align="center" | '''Eastern or European Secretaries''' |- | John Howard Shakespeare || 1905-1924 || United Kingdom |- | James Henry Rushbrooke || 1925-1928 || United Kingdom |- | colspan="3" align="center" | '''Western or American Secretaries''' |- | John Newton Prestridge || 1905-1913 || United States |- | Robert Healy Pitt || 1913-1923 || United States |- | [[Clifton Daggett Gray]] || 1923-1928 || United States |- | colspan="3" align="center" | '''General Secretaries''' |- | James Henry Rushbrooke || 1928-1939 || United Kingdom |- | Walter O. Lewis || 1939-1948 || United States |- | Arnold T. Ohrn || 1948-1960 || Norway |- | Josef Nordenhaug || 1960-1969 || Norway |- | Robert S. Denny || 1969-1980 || United States |- | Gerhard Claas || 1980-1988 || Germany |- | [[Denton Lotz]] || 1988-2007 || United States |- | [[Neville Callam]] || 2007-2017 || Jamaica |- | [[Elijah M. Brown]] || 2018-present || United States |} ===List of presidents=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Name ! Term ! Country |- | [[John Clifford (minister)|John Clifford]] | 1905–1911 | UK |- | [[Robert Stuart MacArthur]] | 1911–1923 | USA |- | [[Edgar Young Mullins]] | 1923–1928 | USA |- | [[John MacNeill (minister)|John MacNeill]] | 1928–1934 | Canada |- | [[George Washington Truett]] | 1934–1939 | USA |- | [[James Henry Rushbrooke]] | 1939–1947 | UK |- | [[Charles Oscar Johnson]] | 1947–1950 | USA |- | [[Fred Townley Lord]] | 1950–1955 | UK |- | [[Theodore Floyd Adams]] | 1955–1960 | USA |- | [[Joao Filson Soren]] | 1960–1965 | Brasil |- | [[William Tolbert]] | 1965–1970 | Liberia |- | [[Carney Hargroves]] | 1970–1975 | USA |- | {{ill|David Wong (minister)|lt=David Wong|de|David Wong}} | 1975–1980 | Hong Kong |- | [[Duke Kimbrough McCall]] | 1980–1985 | USA |- | [[Noel Vose]] | 1985–1990 | Australia |- | {{ill|Knud Wümpelmann|de|Knud Wümpelmann}} | 1990–1995 | Denmark |- | [[Nilson do Amaral Fanini]] | 1995–2000 | Brasil |- | [[Billy Kim]] | 2000–2005 | South Korea |- | [[David Coffey (minister)|David Coffey]] | 2005–2010 | UK |- | [[John Upton (minister)|John Upton]] | 2010–2015 | USA |- | [[Paul Mzisa]] | 2015–2020 | South Africa |- | [[Tomás Mackey]] | 2020– | Argentina |} 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