2024 Annual Session

Welcome to the 2024 Annual Session! Join us for a day filled with inspiring talks, engaging workshops, and networking opportunities. This in-person event will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, a beautiful venue perfect for our gathering. Don't miss out on this chance to connect with like-minded individuals and grow in your personal and professional life. Save the date and get ready for a day of learning and fun!

Welcome to the 2024 Annual Session! The Annual Meeting will be focused on Housing & Community Development. Join us for a day filled with information about moving your church and/or faith-based organization into a housing and community development powerhouse with our engaging workshops and networking opportunities. This in-person event will be held at Calvary Baptist Church, a beautiful venue perfect for our gathering. Don't miss out on this chance to connect with like-minded individuals and grow in your personal and professional life. Save the date, register, and get ready for a day of learning and fun!

The New Jersey chapter of the National Progressive Baptist Convention was started in 1972. The chapter was born out of the Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc. (PNBC), which started as a movement which reflected the religious, social and political climate of its time. Its mission was to transform the traditional African American Baptist Convention as well as society. The formation of the convention was wrapped up in the Civil Rights movement and was begun by some of the same persons who were deeply involved in the freedom movement for African Americans in the United States. The need for a convention which would embrace tenure of office and leadership was a shared need among a cross section of Baptists.

From a religious perspective, churches from across the United States were suffering from an identity crisis fostered by racism, and conservative political policies and practices that supported segregation and U.S. apartheid. Theologians, seminary students and religious leaders were now openly questioning theological constructs and historical assumptions that were the basis for doctrinal practices that supported two societies in America: one White and the other Black.

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