Continental Baptist Missions
Continental Baptist Missions (CBM) is a baptist missionary organization that has its roots following the dissolution of Baptist Mission of North America (BMNA) (which was originally known Fellowship of Baptists for Home Missions (FBHM) and was founded in 1941). FBHM began as a gathering at First Baptist Church (Elyria, Ohio). By 1950, three other church-planting groups had merged with FBHM: Montana Baptist Fellowship, Western Baptist Missions, and the West Virginia Fundamental Baptist Association. The FBHM eventually merged with Galilean Baptist Missions in 1985 and became known as Baptist Mission of North America. Before being finally dissolved in 1990, the BMNA (and its predecessor organizations) were responsible for planting over 600 Baptist churches in the U.S., with around 500 of these churches still in fellowship with the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (GARBC).[1]
The Hiawatha Land Independent Baptist Mission was organized in 1942, when five missionaries withdrew from the American Baptist Home Mission Society and formed a new organization named for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem describing the Lake Superior region of northern Michigan. Today, the organization is now known as Continental Baptist Missions, and it continues to partner with many GARBC churches in church planting and missionary efforts.[2]
See also
- General Association of Regular Baptist Churches
- West Virginia Fundamental Baptist Association
- American Baptist Home Mission Society