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Youth For Christ (YFC) is a worldwide Christian movement working with young people, whose main purpose is evangelism among teenagers. It began informally in New York City in 1940, when Jack Wyrtzen held evangelical Protestant rallies for teenagers. [1] Rallies were held in other U.S. cities during World War II, attracting particularly large ...
Peoples Temple. The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, [ 1] originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Founded by Jim Jones in Indianapolis ...
US$ 403 million [1] [2] Volunteers (2021-2022) 46,340. Website. www .younglife .org. Young Life is an evangelical Christian organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado which focuses on young people in middle school, high school, and college. Week-long Summer camps are a major focus, and these have a definite evangelizing aspect. [3]
Jesus movement. The Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement that began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, Central America, Australia and New Zealand, before it subsided in the late 1980s. Members of the movement were called Jesus people or ...
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [3] is an orthodox, traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.With 1.8 million members as of 2021, [4] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Originally known as "Milwaukee Youth For Christ", and later, "Greater Milwaukee Youth For Christ", it left the national YFC organization in 1973 and became known as the Wisconsin Voice of Christian Youth (WVCY) until 1995, when it changed to its present name.
Cru (until 2011 known as Campus Crusade for Christ—informally "Campus Crusade" or simply "Crusade"—or CCC) is an interdenominational Christian parachurch organization. [1] It was founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright and Vonette Zachary Bright. Since then, Cru has expanded its focus to include a broad ...
1558-7770. OCLC. 62217913. Ignite Your Faith was a print magazine for Christian highschool students. Founded in 1944 as Youth for Christ Magazine, its name was changed to Campus Life in 1965 [1] and to Ignite Your Faith in 2006. [2] Officially closed in 2009, [3] it continues as a website of archived content.