Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Yvonne V. Delk (born 1939) is a leader within the United Church of Christ (UCC), a Christian educator and social justice advocate. She was the first Black woman ordained in the United Church of Christ, and the second woman to hold a national leadership role in the denomination, serving as the head of the Office for Church and Society.
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.
United States historic place Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington U.S. National Register of Historic Places Virginia Landmarks Register Front of the church at dusk, March 2015 Location 4444 Arlington Boulevard Arlington County, Virginia Coordinates 38°52′6.07″N 77°6′26.95″W / 38.8683528°N 77.1074861°W / 38.8683528; -77.1074861 Built 1964 Architect Charles M ...
The Congregational Christian Churches was a Protestant Christian denomination that operated in the U.S. from 1931 through 1957. On the latter date, most of its churches joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a merger to become the United Church of Christ. [1]
Biblical Witness Fellowship is an evangelical renewal movement composed of members of the United Church of Christ.Founded in 1978 as the United Church People for Biblical Witness, the movement reorganized as the Biblical Witness Fellowship at a national convocation in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1984, hosted by the current president of BWF, the Rev. Dr. William Boylan.
Oak Grove United Methodist Church is located in Chesapeake, Virginia, and is known as "the mother of all Methodist congregations in Hampton Roads". [1] It has helped found four other Methodist churches in the area: Community United Methodist, Great Bridge United Methodist, Messiah United Methodist, and Oaklette United Methodist [1] It is located on the corner of North Battlefield and Great ...
Given that the United Church of Christ has no explicit political orientation, the statements and actions of the type issued by JWM has been criticized by conservatives within the UCC. Notable UCC Blogger critic UCCtruths.org [34] has accused former JWM minister Bernice Powell Jackson of being a “ spin doctor ” when making justice statements ...
The churches are independent congregations and typically go by the name "Christian Church", but often use the name "Church of Christ" as well. Though isolated exceptions may occur, it is generally agreed within the movement that no personal or family names should be attached to a congregation which Christ purchased and established with his own blood, though geographical labels are acceptable.