...Higher Education in the United States: A Source Book (1996). Triennial Convention Known officially as the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, the Triennial Convention, the first national association of Baptists, was gaveled...

...aroused considerable missionary interest, which was harnessed in 1814 with the formation of the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions — a name long enough to kill many an organization, but not this one, for it not only survived but...

...and Ann Hazeltine Judson and Luther Rice, led to their dismissal from the Board and the creation of the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America (known as the Triennial Convention, and later reorganized into the American Baptist Missionary Unionl...

...1814.24 On May 18, 1814, thirty-three delegates met at the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia to form the "General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions." In a sermon given before the meeting Richard Furman, later elected the President,...

...organized the American Board of Commissioners in 1810 to carry on foreign mission work. Baptists developed the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination...the United States of America for Foreign Missions in 1814. The American Bible Society was formed in 1816 on an interdenominational basis, as were also...

...favor instead denominational enterprises. In 1814, Baptists established their first national body, the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination...the United States of America for Foreign Missions, or Triennial Convention. Methodists, already tightly organized nationally, added a variety of proprietary...

...drove the last spike in the transcontinental railroad at Ogden, Utah, in 1849. In breaking away from the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions they self-consciously opted for the "convention" model already on display in the...

...among Baptists. In May 1814 delegates from various Baptist associations met in Philadelphia to form the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions. This cumbersome title would later find expression simply as the Triennial Convention,...

...general meeting in Philadelphia during May, 1814, which created a national missionary organization — The General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions, generally called the Triennial Convention because of its meetings every three...

...England I4out of which came the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (1810), and later, the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States for Foreign Missions (1814). On separate ships, on their way to India to work with the Baptist, William...