The National Association of Free Will Baptists (NAFWB) is a national body of Free Will Baptist churches in the United States and Canada, organized on November 5, 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee. The National Association of Free Will Baptists traces its history in the United States through two different lines: one beginning in the South in 1727 (the "Palmer line") and another in the North in 1780 (the "Randall line"). The "Palmer line" however, never developed as a denomination. It consisted of only about three churches in North Carolina. The National Association of Free Will Baptists is the largest of the Free Will Baptist denominations.
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