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Philipp Jakob Spener published his Pia Desideria in 1675 and laid out his program for the pietistic revival of the Lutheran Church, emphasising the use of small groups. He suggested the reintroduction of "the ancient and apostolic kind of church meetings," held "in the manner in which Paul describes them in 1 Corinthians 14:26–40." Spener ...
The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate ...
Evangelical Free Church of America: Reformed: 1943 Evangelical Friends Church International: Quaker: 1971 Evangelical Presbyterian Church: Reformed: 1982 Every Nation Churches: Charismatic: Fellowship of Evangelical Churches: Anabaptist: Foursquare Church, The: Pentecostal: 1952 Free Methodist Church of North America Methodism: 1944 Grace ...
The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) is an association of 304 churches [2] providing fellowship for and services to churches from the Congregational tradition. The Association maintains its national office in Oak Creek, Wisconsin , a suburb of Milwaukee .
Office of Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches in America. Six departments of the EAPCA include the General Assembly Office, Department of Mission and Church Planting, Department of Communications, Department of Finance, Department of Member Care, and Council of Education and Spiritual Development. Rev. Dr.
Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America (ELCM) is a Lutheran church body based in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Currently the ELCM has active congregations in Pennsylvania, [ 1 ] New York , and Virginia ; as well as mission efforts across the United States.
Staub Memorial Congregational Church in Portland, Oregon joined in 1958. Over a quarter million members of Congregational Christian Churches opposed or abstained from the vote to form the UCC. [23] Despite the scale of concern, the conference started very small, having only sixteen churches in 1959. [8]
The General Conference Session is the official world meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held every five years.At the session, delegates from around the world elect the Church's World Leaders, discuss and vote on changes to the Church's Constitution, and listen to reports from the Church's 13 Divisions on activities going on within its territory.