Garo Baptist Convention | |
Abbreviation: | GBC |
Main Classification: | Evangelicalism |
Theology: | Baptist |
Leader Title: | President |
Leader Name: | Mr. Sundar A Sangma |
Leader Title1: | General Secretary |
Leader Name1: | Rev Janang R. Sangma |
Associations: | Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India, Baptist World Alliance |
Founder: | American Baptist Foreign Mission Society |
Founded Date: | 1874 |
Area: | Meghalaya, Assam, Bangladesh |
Language: | Garo |
Headquarters: | Tura, India |
Congregations: | 2,619 |
Members: | 333,908 |
Garo Baptist Convention is an association of Baptist Christian churches of India and Bangladesh. It is named after the ethnic group of the name Garo. Most members of this church are in Meghalaya. In Bangladesh the central office of the GBC is located in Birisiri under the suburban area Susong Durgapur of Netrokona District. It is affiliated with the Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India and the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation (Baptist World Alliance).
It was established in the year of 1874.[1]
According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 2,619 churches and 333,908 baptized members. [2]
GBC runs the Harding Theological College in Tura, Meghalaya. GBC also runs the J.N.B. Memorial Baptist Training Institute in Birishiri, Mymensingh, Bangladesh.[3]