The Baptist Union of Papua New Guinea is a fellowship of Baptists in New Guinea.
The Baptist Union is a member of the Baptist World Alliance. Structurally, it is divided into three unions under the main body. In the area of strength of the Baptist Union - three districts in Papua New Guinea - eighty percent of the population are Baptists. In 1998, there were 360 congregations in the Union, with over 35,000 members.
Famous quotes containing the words baptist, union and/or guinea:
“I am perhaps being a bit facetious but if some of my good Baptist brethren in Georgia had done a little preaching from the pulpit against the K.K.K. in the ‘20s, I would have a little more genuine American respect for their Christianity!”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”
—Frances E. Willard 1839–1898, U.S. president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union 1879-1891, author, activist. The Woman’s Magazine, pp. 137-40 (January 1887)
“To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)