- Marianas Association of General Baptists
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Part of a series on Baptists BackgroundKey figuresJohn Smyth
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Baptist work in the Mariana Islands began in 1911 on the island of Guam, and was supported by the General Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. The Marianas Association was organized in 1962. The Foreign Mission Society started mission work in Saipan in 1947.
In 1995, the association was composed of 5 churches with 680 members, with 4 churches located in Guam (Agana Heights, Agat, Telefofo, and Yigo), and one in the Northern Marianas Islands in Saipan. The Saipan Community School is a ministry of Saipan Community Church.
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- Baptists Around the World, Albert W. Wardin, Jr., editor
Categories:- Religious organizations established in 1962
- Arminian denominations
- Baptist denominations in Oceania
- Baptist denominations and unions established in the 20th century
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