[saradippity]

is there a minimum number of Baptists to start a church or do you just need a minister?

[american colleen]

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination, but the 15.7 million members are concentrated in the rural and suburban heartland. In the Philadelphia area, it has no more than 12,000 members in 125 churches, many of which are only loosely affiliated.

Looks like an average of 96 members per church.

[Held_to_Ransom]

is there a minimum number of Baptists to start a church or do you just need a minister?

Just a minister, and he could actually start in a storefront, a trailer, the basement of another Church, even a tent. If they don't grow though they tend to fold.