At the first general meeting on June 7, 1823, the Association agreed to fund two church planting missionaries at $30 a month for two years.
[2] In September 1996, seven hundred churches left the BGAV to form the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia.
[6] At the time, BGAV Executive Director John V. Upton, Jr., said, "Virginia Baptists have been a part of the BWA since its beginning in 1905.
Previously, policy making and the day-to-day operation of the organization relied on a 97-member Virginia Baptist Mission Board (VBMB).
This bylaw moved the governing authority from the VBMB to a new 21-member executive board, and a new Mission Council of up to 120 members acting in a consulting capacity.