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+ HENRICO, Va. (BP) – In its ninth year, a partnership between the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) and the Ghana Baptist Convention is looking to decrease the number of malaria cases even more while increasing the number of church plants. More Than Nets began as a multi-year partnership between the two Baptist groups in 2013 – a couple of years after BGAV leaders visited Ghana to determine the country’s most pressing physical need. “In 2010 our executive director, John Upton, came to the Mission Development staff and challenged us,” said Dean Miller, BGAV Mission Development staff coordinator. “He wanted us to find an area of the world where Virginia Baptists could have a strategic, sustained focus. Our team kept watch for what God would bring forward.” ....
Baptist churches became popular among African Americans in the South in part because they offered more membership rights than other denominations. Until the nineteenth century, and unlike the more-elite Episcopal church, Baptist churches routinely offered free and enslaved blacks full membership, and sometimes roles like exhorter or deacon, in their congregations; they restricted leadership roles like elder and pastor to whites. Until 1831, blacks were also free to lead their own separate Baptist congregations, providing a level of autonomy for African American communities nonexistent in most other areas of southern society. After Nat Turner’s rebellion in 1831, white Virginians become fearful that violence would result from assembling black communities, so the General Assembly passed laws restricting enslaved and free blacks from worshipping without white supervision. ....