Baptist State Convention of North Carolina

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) is an autonomous association of Baptist churches in the states of North Carolina. It is one of the state conventions associated with the Southern Baptist Convention. Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, the convention is made up of 78 Baptist associations and around 4,300 churches as of 2012. The convention is led by three officers, elected annually during the annual meeting of the convention. The three officers elected to serve the convention for 2013 are: President, Rev. Mark Harris (First Baptist Church, Charlotte), First Vice-President, Rev. C.J. Bordeaux (Gorman Baptist Church, Durham), and Second Vice-President, Rev. Timmy Blair (Piney Grove Chapel Baptist Church, Angier). The convention is also led by an Executive Director-Treasurer (EDT). The current EDT is Rev. Milton A. Hollifield, Jr who was elected by the convention in April 2006.

The Convention was founded on March 26, 1830 in Greenville. One of its thirteen founders was Thomas Meredith, who also helped to draft its constitution.

In 1832, the convention established its newspaper, originally a monthly paper called the Interpreter edited by Meredith, but which in 1835 changed to a weekly paper entitled the Biblical Recorder. It was later to be merged with the Southern Watchman, to become the Recorder and Watchman. Also in 1832, the convention resolved to purchase a farm "for the establishment of a Baptist Literary Institution on the Manual Labor Principle". A committee, comprising J.G. Hall, W.R. Hinton, J. Purify, A.S. Wynn, and S. J. Jeffreys was formed to raise USD2,000 for its purchase. This institution was named Wake Forest Institute, which began operation on 1834-02-01, initially serving 25 students. In 1839, this was renamed to Wake Forest College.

The Convention acquired Buies Creek Academy in 1925. It still owned it when, in 1979 it became Campbell University.

In 1975, after extensive and vigorous discussion, the BSCNC adopted the following resolution, that contributed to it having more women deacons than any other state in the South, apart from Virginia, by 2005:

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