Did ARBCA change it's name?

[karjaneth]

Yesterday I was trying to look up if there were any ARBCA churches in my area, and their website seems to be dead. None of the links that show up in google results for ARBCA work (e.g. the top three results in this search for "arbca church list").

However, if you just put in

http://arbca.com

with "http" instead of "https" and with no "www" at the beginning, it redirects you to https://www.cba1689.com for the "Confessional Baptist Association".

Their website is extremely sparse on details, and makes no mention (that I could find) of any connection to ARBCA. Searching google for some connection brings up what looks like the ARBCA page on sermonaudio, with their logo, but with the name changed to "Confessional Baptist Association".

I'm so confused and I can't find any information on an official name change or reorganization or anything. Maybe I just don't know where to look.

Can anyone shed light on this?

 

[karjaneth]

Additionally, searching the wayback machine shows that the redirects started this month (August 2022), and that as of July their original website was still up.

 

[Taylor]

 

[karjaneth]

Lol uh oh. I saw some stuff about a sexual abuse scandal, is that the can of worms to which you refer? Is there a tl;dr?

 

[arapahoepark]

Lol uh oh. I saw some stuff about a sexual abuse scandal, is that the can of worms to which you refer? Is there a tl;dr?

Yes.
It also only has a handful of churches.

 

[Edward]

ARBCA changing name to "Confessional Baptist Association" (CBA)​

https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/arbca-changing-name-to-confessional-baptist-association-cba.108595/

 

[karjaneth]

Clicking those links gives me:

Oops! We ran into some problems.​

You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.

I did try to search PB before I posted, but I must not know the secret handshake.

 

[Berean]

I did try to search PB before I posted, but I must not know the secret handshake.

You'll need more than just 4 posts. Not sure of the exact number. 20ish?

 

[karjaneth]

Ahh that makes sense. That's what I get for lurking I guess.

 

[SeanPatrickCornell]

Anyway, yes. ARBCA changed it's name to "Confessional Baptist Association".

 

[C. M. Sheffield]

Calling themselves "A national association of churches" is a bit of a reach.