It is affiliated with the Church of Christ in the Congo, and the Baptist World Alliance.
The Baptist Community of Congo has its origins in a British mission of the Livingstone Inland Mission installed in the Upper Congo River, in 1878, by the Baptist Welsh pastor Alfred Tilly.
[1] In 1884, the Livingstone Inland Mission was taken over by the American Baptist Missionary Union.
[3] In 2004, the organization takes the name of Baptist Community of Congo.
[7] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 966 churches and 1,050,000 members.