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College Church is an evangelical nondenominational church in the broadly Reformed, congregationalist tradition located in Wheaton, Illinois. It was founded in 1861 by Jonathan Blanchard , who was also the first president of Wheaton College , an unaffiliated university.
Until 2008, the church was located in Wheaton, Illinois, and retained the geographically oriented name when it relocated to a new campus. Alongside First Presbyterian of Wheaton, Wheaton Bible Church split from College Church early in its history. [2] The church holds $42,560,676 in assets and their annual budget for 2021 is $11,678,000. [3]
R. Kent Hughes (born March 1, 1942) [1] is the former senior pastor of College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, United States.Hughes is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling Disciplines of a Godly Man. [2]
Wheaton College was founded in 1860. Its predecessor, the Illinois Institute, had been founded in late 1853 by Wesleyan Methodists as a college and preparatory school. . Wheaton's first president, Jonathan Blanchard, was a former president of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a staunch abolitionist with ties to Oberlin Co
Some non-denominational churches have grown quite recently within networks like Acts 29. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Certain nondenominational churches are associated with various movements in Christendom, such as evangelicalism or Charismatic Christianity , but many adhere to a form of evangelical Christianity .
The Billy Graham Center, whose building is known as the Billy Graham Hall, was founded and opened in 1981 on the campus of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. Named after Billy Graham , the center is the primary location for many of Wheaton College's bible and theology classes, as well as the graduate school's main headquarters, and host to ...
Brigade was founded in 1937 by Joe Coughlin (1919–2005), then a sophomore at Wheaton College, Illinois. It began as a boys' group, under the name of the "Christian Service Squad," at the Methodist church in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where Coughlin served as a Sunday School teacher. By 1940, when Christian Service Brigade was ...
After teaching briefly at Wheaton College in Illinois and for several years at Vanguard University of Southern California, Fee taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, from fall 1974 until 1986. He then moved to Regent College where he was Professor of New Testament until his retirement in 2009.