SBC Annual Meeting 2012
Since its organization in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, the Southern Baptist Convention SBC has grown to over 16 million members who worship in more than 45,000 churches in the united states Southern Baptists sponsor about 5,000 missionaries serving the United States and its territories, canada and the Caribbean, as well as sponsoring more than 5,000 foreign missionaries in 153 nations of the world The term quot;Southern Baptist Conventionquot; refers to both the convention and its annual meeting, which meets in a different city each year.