Traditional Chinese 澳門浸信會聯會 | ||
Hanyu Pinyin Jyutping ou3 mun4 zam3 seon3 wui6 lyun4 wui6 Portuguese Convenção Baptista de Macau | ||
The Macau Baptist Convention (Abbr: MBC) is a cooperative association of Baptist churches in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. It was until very recently known as the Macau Baptist Association (Portuguese: Associação Baptista de Macau).
It can trace its origins to the work established by the Triennial Convention missionaries, John and Henrietta Shuck, in 1835. The first Baptist church was, however, only set up in 1905 when the Macau Baptist Church was planted by Charlton Todd. A building was purchased in 1927 at the Rua Pedro Nolasco da Silva to house its congregation and is today also the headquarters of the MBC.
The MBC currently has 6 congregations with 750 members in the territory and is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance and the Asia Pacific Baptist Federation.