Union of Missionary Baptist Churches in Ivory Coast
The Union of Missionary Baptist Churches in Ivory Coast is a Baptist Christian denomination, affiliated with the Fédération Évangélique de Côte d’Ivoire and the Baptist World Alliance, in Ivory Coast. The headquarters is in Abidjan.History
The Union of Missionary Baptist Churches in Ivory Coast has its origins in a mission of Nigerian Baptist Convention in 1947 and an American mission of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was officially founded in 1966 as Baptist Meridional Evangelical Churches in Ivory Coast. In 2006, it had 100 churches and 10,000 members. In 2017, it had 258 churches and 30,000 members.
