The California Southern Baptist Convention (CSBC) is an autonomous Baptist association of churches in the state of California. CSBC includes 1,800 associated churches which in turn have 450,000 members. CSBC is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Additionally the CSBC controls and financial supports California Baptist University.
CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California. The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988.
CSBC's Executive Director leading day-to-day operations of the convention is FermÃn A. Whittaker who was appointed in 1995.
Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.
Famous quotes containing the words california, southern, baptist and/or convention:
“This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California to the New York Island.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.”
—Woody Guthrie (1912–1967)
“How could Southern Ireland keep a bridal North in the manner to which she is accustomed?”
—Terence O’Neill (1914–1990)
“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
““We’ll encounter opposition, won’t we, if we give women the same education that we give to men,” Socrates says to Galucon. “For then we’d have to let women ... exercise in the company of men. And we know how ridiculous that would seem.” ... Convention and habit are women’s enemies here, and reason their ally.”
—Martha Nussbaum (b. 1947)