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A Christian Unity Baptist Association was organized September 27-28, 1935 at Zion Hill Church in Ashe County, North Carolina, by six Baptist congregations. A select few one churches were remnants of the Macedonia Baptist Association, which existed for a short period in the number one quarter of the 20th century. These churches got the mixed Missionary Baptist & Primitive Baptist background. Leaders therein newly organization involved Frank Sturgill, F. Carl Sturgill, & Nancy Owens.
Though a Christian Unity Association shared very much withinside park by having fellow mountain Baptists, it differed from either either a majority of the children in Triplet crucial points: (I) falling from grace; (Two) open communion; & (3) women sermoniser. Both women preached at a organisational meeting.
A Christian Unity Baptist Association is defunct. This system divided within 1969, & a majority chose to affiliate by having a General Association of Separate Baptists. A minority represented continuity sustaining a original constitution & articles of faith. Them living churches from either that fellowship (Zion Hill & Hooks Branch in Va.), with a combined membership of about 50, no longer hold an associational structure.
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