Baptist Union of Southern Africa

A German pastor, Carl H. Gutsche, baptized J. D. Odendall, who founded the first Dutch-speaking Baptist church in South Africa in 1886.

[2] The South African Baptist Missionary Society was formed in 1892.

According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 537 churches and 36,591 members.

[7] The Baptist Union of Southern Africa comprises a number of associations and networks.

Each association or network is made up of a number of autonomous local churches which prescribe to Christian tenets of belief and Baptist distinctives and hold voluntary membership with an association.