The World Field
In 1995, the Seventh Day Baptists had 253 churches and over 20 000 members in India, 78 churches with 4885 members in the United States, 2 churches with 55 members in England, and 1 church of 40 members in Canada. Conferences and associations exist in many other countries including Australia, Brazil, India, Jamaica, the Netherlands, New Zealand and amongst the Seventh Day Christians of Poland. Some conferences have sent missionaries to other nations including Malawi, Fiji and Argentina. The Seventh Day Baptist World Federation was founded in 1964–65, and it now represents over 50 000 Baptists in 17 member organizations in 22 countries.
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Famous quotes containing the words world and/or field:
“A man of honor is so rare an animal in this world that I could not stand the sight of him for too long.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“How sweet I roam’d from field to field
And tasted all the summer’s pride,
Till I the Prince of Love beheld
Who in the sunny beams did glide!”
—William Blake (1757–1827)