The four largest of the predominantly African-American Baptist conventions began meeting jointly in recent years.

"We've seen at least 500 people in the last two weeks who say they are going to a Baptist convention," said Lynn Curtain, who oversees the consulate's non-immigrant visa branch.

And, unless it happens to be a Baptist convention, nobody will censure your bad behavior.

His bloodline is unequaled in this business, and he has stayed true to the principles that his great-great-grandfather first tested 165 years ago, at a Baptist convention.

The BMS co-operates with the Brazilian Baptist convention.

In a 1963 speech to a Baptist convention in Chicago, Mr. Fuller urged blacks to save their money so they could own their own busnesses.

The BWA now counts 218 Baptist conventions and unions worldwide with over 41 million members.

She looked as out of place in that hotel as a cross-dresser at a Baptist convention.

Recent Baptist conventions have passed resolutions that express a sense of the denomination on social issues like opposition to abortion, but have said relatively little about the family.

"He was getting ready to go to a Baptist convention at the time."