The first event was held in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia, with Adger M. Pace serving as the convention's first president.
The convention has continued as an annual event for more than 70 years, rotating among small towns throughout the United States (typically in the South).
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, home of the original Vaughan Publishing Company and generally regarded as the birthplace of Southern Gospel music since 1910, hosted the 1991, 1996, 2006, and 2015 conventions.
The 2023 session will take place at the historic Orange United Methodist Church outside Canton, Georgia on November 17 and 18, 2023.
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