The Artery: Reimagining the Work of the State Convention

Re-imagining the Baptist Denomination within the African-American Tradition | PART III

General Missionary Baptist State Convention of Mississippi gathering.

A capillary can carry only so much. Some of the work a church needs is simply too large for the cluster of congregations down the road, and yet too intimate for a national office that has never seen the inside of its sanctuary. That middle distance belongs to the state convention. If t…