The biblical pattern shows the Lord’s churches as autonomous (self-governing) bodies who cooperate with one another for the purpose of missions and evangelism.  We, the Sovereign Grace Assembly, are descendants of the English Particular Baptists (17th century). These Baptists first organized, in America, in 1814 as the General Missionary Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States of America for Foreign Missions – more commonly called the Triennial Convention. This group produced the Particular Baptist missionary Adoniram Judson who served the people of Burma for almost forty years.