United American Free Will Baptist Conference
The first black Free Will Baptist minister was Robert Tash, ordained in 1827.[1] African-Americans organized their first separate congregation in 1867 at Snow Hill in Greene County, North Carolina, the first annual conference in 1870, and the first association in 1887.The United American Free Will Baptist Conference, was created in 1968 under the leadership of O. L. Williams of Lakeland, Florida, resulting from a division in the parent United American Free Will Baptist Church.[2][3] In 2007 the United American Free Will Baptist Conference had seventy-five congregations with approximately 11,200 members, mostly in Florida, but also in South Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas.[6] The United American Free Will Baptists have an affirmation of faith, based upon the Nicene and Apostles' creeds; the denomination also adopts a church covenant.