Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Year Founded Church City State 1995 Vine Church Carbondale: Illinois: 2002 Foundation Church Bloomington-Normal: Illinois: 2004 Blue Sky Church Bellevue: Washington: 2006 Clear River Church Lafayette: Indiana: 2008 High Rock Church Bloomington: Indiana: 2011 Brookfield Church Athens: Ohio: 2012 Hills Church Pullman: Washington: 2013 Rock Hills ...
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
The first of the series of unions was at a synod in Idstein to form the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau in August 1817, commemorated in naming the church of Idstein Unionskirche one hundred years later. [13] [14] Around the world, each united or uniting church comprises a different mix of predecessor Protestant denominations. [1]
Urbana (/ ɜːr ˈ b æ n ə / ur-BAN-ə) is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States. [3] As of the 2020 census, Urbana had a population of 38,336. It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area , which had 236,000 residents in 2020.
The Consultation on Church Union (COCU) was an effort towards church unity in the United States, that began in 1962 and in 2002 became the Churches Uniting in Christ. It was a significant part of the Christian movement towards ecumenism .
The Rev. Dr. Truman Douglass, pastor of St. Louis' Pilgrim Congregational Church, met with the Rev. Dr. Samuel Press, president of Eden Theological Seminary in that city, a seminary of the Evangelical and Reformed Church, a denomination predominantly of German origin and itself a merger of two previously separated traditions, as part of an ...
The dispute has pitted the city’s mayor, a member of Eastland Life Church, against his own library board of trustees. It led to the abrupt dismissal of the library director, who accused the ...
Built in 1836, Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first of that newly formed, independent black denomination to be built west of the Appalachian Mountains, as well as the first in Illinois. [4] The AME Church was founded as a denomination by free blacks in Philadelphia and its region in 1816.