It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.
The Baptist Convention of Malawi has its origins in an American mission of the International Mission Board in 1959.
[2] According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 2,000 churches and 300,000 members.
[3] It has 1 affiliated theological institute, the Baptist Theological Seminary of Malawi in Lilongwe.
[4] It founded the Senga Bay Baptist Medical Clinic Salima, Malawi.