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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.
Traci D. Blackmon is an African American minister who was the Associate General Minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ. She resigned her position on December 14, 2023. She resigned after a period of sabbatical citing that her vision and the vision of UCC Leadership no longer aligned.
Catholic Church in Australia: 23.25 Australia: Catholicism: Extrapolated figure from calculating assets and investments in the state of Victoria. [7] Seventh-day Adventist Church: 15.6 United States: Adventism: As of 1998. [8] Church of England: 13.84 United Kingdom: Anglican: Endowment funds. [9] Church of Sweden: 11.41 Sweden: Lutheran: FY2012.
United Church of Canada – 0.3 million [149] Uniting Church in Australia – 0.2 million [150] Presbyterian Church in Taiwan – 0.2 million [151] Presbyterian Church in Ireland – 0.2 million [152] Continental Reformed Protestantism – 30 million Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar – 6 million [153] Protestant Church in Indonesia – 3.1 ...
The church voted on the decision and had the two third majority vote. Stair said they formed a new nonprofit, showed it was viable, and raised the $140,000 fee required by the United Methodist Church.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) lost about 30% of its congregation and closed 12.5% of its churches: the United Methodist church lost 16.7% of its congregation and closed 10.2% of its churches. The Presbyterian Church had the sharpest decline, losing over 40% of its congregation and 15.4% of its churches between 2000 and 2015 ...
American Baptist Churches USA (ABC-USA) is fifth in size, with approximately 1.1 million members (2017). [24] United Church of Christ (UCC) is the sixth and has about 710,000 members in 2022. [25] Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (DOC) is the seventh and has about 278,000 members as of 2022. [26]
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.