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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.
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 EA began in 1998 from meetings between the clergy of First Protestant Church in New Braunfels, Texas [7] and St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church in Cullman, Alabama, two large UCC congregations of Evangelical and Reformed (German Protestant) heritage. A core group resulting from interested churches of like mind brought about this ...
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 ...
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.
Texas: Restorationist [86] [87] Denomination: Churches of Christ. Roger Marshall: Republican Kansas: Restorationist Denomination: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). [88] [89] Tommy Tuberville: Republican Alabama: Restorationist [90] Denomination: Churches of Christ.
Union affiliation by U.S. state (2023) [1] [2] Rank State Percent union members Percent change Union members Percent represented by unions Percent change Represented
In October 2006, the Cathedral of Hope was granted standing by the North Texas Association of the United Church of Christ (UCC) as a member congregation, becoming the fourth largest congregation in the denomination. The Cathedral of Hope's Interfaith Peace Chapel began construction in 2009 and was completed in November 2010.