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===Mission agencies===
The denomination was organized in 1845 to create a mission board to support the sending of Baptist missionaries. The [[North American Mission Board]], or NAMB, (founded as the Domestic Mission Board, and later the Home Mission Board) in [[Alpharetta, Georgia]] serves missionaries involved in [[evangelism]] and [[church planting]] in the U.S. and Canada, while the [[International Mission Board]], or IMB, (originally the Foreign Mission Board) in [[Richmond, Virginia]], sponsors missionaries to the rest of the world.

Baptist Men is the mission organization for men in the convention's churches and is under the North American Mission Board.

The [[Woman's Missionary Union]], founded in 1888, is an auxiliary to the national convention, which helps facilitate two large annual missions offerings: the [[Annie Armstrong]] Easter Offering (for North American missions) and the [[Lottie Moon]] Christmas Offering (for international missions).