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There are six modern Conference Associations in the Michigan Conference UCC: the Covenant Association, which is located in central Michigan; the Detroit Metropolitan Association, located in the southeast section of the lower peninsula; the Eastern Association, located in the thumb; the Grand West Association, which is located in the central section toward the west of the state; the Southwest ...
During the 1960s through the 1990s, the NACCC slowly built a network of, or formed alliances with, voluntarily-supported missions and agencies to replace those lost in the UCC merger. One distinction between the NACCC and UCC is the former body's refusal to engage in political activity on behalf of its constituent churches.
The decline in number of congregations continued through 2011, as the 2011 Annual Report shows 5,100 member churches. [77] As of the 2014 Annual Yearbook of the UCC, membership is listed as 979,239 members in 5,154 local churches.
The church in September 2015. The Peoples Church of East Lansing is an interdenominational Protestant congregation located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan.It is officially a member of (in alphabetical order) the American Baptist Churches USA, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.
The Synod itself is composed of delegates, either clergy or lay, from the 36 conferences of the UCC, apportioned in a manner similar to states in the United States House of Representatives, with each conference assigned a minimum of three delegates regardless of its membership size as a proportion of the national membership.
The actual consummation of the UCC, however, did not occur until 1961, when a sufficient number of CC congregations voted to approve the denomination's new constitution. The CC Churches brought into the new UCC approximately 1.4 million members, about 60 percent of the total number of members in the new denomination. In order to attend to ...
By 1915, 40 churches belonged to CCCU. The number of churches increased to 60 by 1925. Most of the Churches of Christ in Christian Union's activities, including camp meetings, new church plants, and evangelistic campaigns, focused on Ohio, although revivals were held in Tennessee and New York.
The 2001 "Mutual respect within the faith community " resolution passed by General Synod XXIII "calls upon all levels of the United church of Christ, the national covenanted ministries, conferences, associations, and individual congregations of the denomination to be sensitive to the needs and concerns of a church with such a diverse population and difference of theological beliefs and to ...