California Southern Baptist Convention
The California Southern Baptist Convention is the state convention of the Southern Baptist Convention in California. CSBC includes 1,800 member churches which in turn have 450,000 members. Additionally the CSBC controls and financially supports California Baptist University.
CSBC was founded in 1940 as the Southern Baptist General Convention of California. The convention changed its name to its current name in 1988.
CSBC's Executive Director leading day-to-day operations of the convention is Fermín A. Whittaker who was called to serve in 1995 by convention messengers.
Several times in recent decades efforts to change the name of the convention to remove "Southern" have failed.
