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The church was founded in 1986 by Kenneth Copeland as Eagle Mountain Church. In 1993, the church was renamed to Eagle Mountain International Church and in 1998, following rapid growth, moved to its current location in Fort Worth, Texas, on a 33-acre property that was once the Marine Corps Air Station Eagle Mountain Lake (MCAS Eagle Mountain Lake), a United States Marine Corps air station. [1]
Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) is an auxiliary of the Southern Baptist Convention that was founded in 1888. It is the largest Protestant missions organization for women in the world. The WMU sees its work as ‘’making disciples of Jesus who live in mission’’; this is done by providing resources, engaging with ministries and offering ...
August 1983 - Founding Pastor Steve Riggle, sent on a church-planting mission by the Grace International Churches and Ministries, Inc, held the first service. Twelve people met in the Clear Lake Intermediate School auditorium. Late 1983 - Relocation to an existing church building in Webster. By that time, the congregation had grown to 98.
The church was pastored by Richard Fuller, the third president of the Southern Baptist Convention, [3] who was heavily involved in missionary activities. [ 4 ] She worked with multiple Baltimore missionary organizations ministering to orphans, African Americans , Native Americans , Chinese Americans immigrants , and indigent women and families.
In 1989, GCI became GCAC ("Great Commission Association of Churches"), and Great Commission Ministries (GCM) was founded as the campus and international mission agency for GCAC; the campus ministry prior to this was known as Great Commission Students (GCS), although GCS did not employ full-time missionaries or do international work.
The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church is the regional body of congregations and ministries in East Texas, from Texarkana west to approximately Cedar Creek Lake in the north, Thorndale in the west, and Bay City in the southwest and down to the Gulf Coast and back east to the Louisiana border.
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas is one of the dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.The diocese consists of all Episcopal congregations in the southeastern quartile of Texas, including the cities of Austin, Beaumont, Galveston, Houston (the see city), Waco and, as of July 2022, Fort Worth and other cities within the former diocese in North Texas.
The church has over 90 ministries. [6] The church oversees the Imani School, a private elementary and middle school, [7] and it is one of the church's ministries. [6] Kingdom Builders Business Corp. serves as the church's nonprofit division. [8] The church established nine non-profit organizations since 1982.