About Us
The Alaska Baptist Association is a body of fellowship and cooperation in the defense of the faith and in the proclamation of the gospel of God’s grace. The purpose of the ABA is to maintain an association of sovereign, Bible-believing, Christ-honoring Baptist churches; to promote the spirit of evangelism, to spread the gospel; to advance Baptist educational and missionary enterprises at home and abroad; to raise and maintain a testimony to the truth of the gospel and to the purity of the church and to raise a standard of Biblical separation from worldliness and compromise.
The ABA is a voluntary affiliation of churches whose messengers gather in stated meetings for the conducting of the association business, for mutual fellowship and counsel, to maintain uniformity in faith and practice among the churches and to cooperate in promoting the evangelistic, educational and missionary goals of the churches.
An association is an organization of human origin; it is based on Scriptural concepts of cooperation among churches (2 Corinthians 8:1-8). As such, it is not a society that serves the churches but a fellowship through which the churches serve one another. The use of the term Association of Churches refers to the relationship of the churches in fellowship and cooperation.