Application

How are churches received into fellowship?

New churches are recommended to be admitted during the RGVBA’s annual meeting (last week of October). Recommendation must be carried by a 75% majority roll call vote of the messengers present.

Any new church desiring representation in the Association shall be at least one year (1) old at the time of the Annual Meeting of the Association. Application shall be made at least sixty (60) days before the Annual Meeting of the Association through a petitionary letter stating:

• How the church was constituted.

• That the church has adopted the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message.

• That the church is contributing to the Rio Grande Valley Baptist Association, the Baptist General Convention of Texas, and/or be encourage to contribute to the Southern Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention through the Cooperative Program, and the Hispanic Baptist Convention.

A mission that has become a church must have been constituted a church at least thirty (30) days prior to the Annual Meeting of the Association and application shall be made at least thirty (30) days prior to the Annual Meeting of the Association through a petitionary letter