Baptist Community of Congo

Baptist Community of Congo
Communauté Baptiste du Congo
Abbreviation	CBCO
Classification	Evangelical Christianity
Theology	Baptist
Associations	Church of Christ in the Congo Baptist World Alliance WCC
Headquarters	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Origin	1946
Congregations	966
Members	1,050,000

The Baptist Community of Congo (French: Communauté Baptiste du Congo, CBCO) is an association of Baptist Christian churches in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is affiliated with the Church of Christ in the Congo, and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Kinshasa.

History

Worship service at CBCO Church Kintambo in Kinshasa, affiliated to the Baptist Community of Congo, 2019.

The Baptist Community of Congo has its origens in a British mission of the Livingstone Inland Mission installed in the Upper Congo River, in 1878, by the Baptist Welsh pastor Alfred Tilly. In 1884, the Livingstone Inland Mission was taken over by the American Baptist Missionary Union. In 1946, the Baptist Church of Congo is founded. In 2004, the organization takes the name of Baptist Community of Congo. In 2006, the Community had 600 churches and 252,000 members. According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 966 churches and 1,050,000 members.

See also

• Bible
• Born again
• Baptist beliefs
• Worship service (evangelicalism)
• Jesus Christ
• Believers' Church