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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.

Susquehanna Baptist Association
Cooperating Baptist churches in Maryland with one church in Pennsylvania.

Arbuckle Baptist Association
Encompasses Garvin and Murray counties in Oklahoma.

Bay Lakes Baptist Association
Serving the Central and Eastern regions of Wisconsin.

Atlanta Baptist Association
Located in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Elkhorn Baptist Association
A group of 87 cooperating Southern Baptist churches in central Kentucky, with headquarters in Lexington.

Cimarron Baptist Association
Group of local, autonomous, Southern Baptist churches located in Creek, Pawnee and Payne counties in Northeastern Oklahoma.

North Star Church Network
A network of 180 congregations in Northern Virginia.

Southern Baptist Churches of Kansas City
Three associations of Baptist churches that surround the Kansas City area.

Sacramento Association of Southern Baptist Churches
An association of churches in the greater Sacramento, California region.

Columbia Metro Baptist Association
Serving the Columbia, South Carolina region.






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