The General Conference of the Evangelical Baptist Church, Inc. was organized in 1935 as the Church of the Full Gospel, Inc, by members of several Free Will Baptist churches, under the leadership of William Howard Carter. In doctrine and organization they are similar to the Free Will Baptists, holding a hybrid Calvinist/Arminian outlook and somewhat Wesleyan theology. They share Wesleyan-Holiness traits, and consider themselves fundamentalists and are in acceptance of the theology of free grace, free salvation, and free will. By 1952, they had grown to 31 churches with about 2200 members. Headquarters were in Goldsboro, North Carolina, where an annual conference was held. Today the headquarters are in Tucson, Arizona. After the death of Carter in 1980, the denomination dwindled to 2 churche