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Grace Communion International (GCI), formerly named the Radio Church of God (RCG) and the Worldwide Church of God (WCG), is a Christian denomination based in Charlotte, North Carolina. [ 1 ] According to the organization's website, the denomination has 30,000 members in 550 churches in 70 countries, [ 2 ] is structured in the episcopal model ...
Dean Blackwell (1931-2003): [6] Beginning in 1953, was the first pastor of the WCG congregation in Big Sandy, Texas; Ordained Evangelist, 1964; Long-time pastor in the Chicago area, later a favorite professor of theology at Ambassador University; Retired by the WCG, 1996; Remained with the Worldwide Church of God until his death, though retired ...
It is one of many groups that left the WCG after its sweeping doctrinal changes in the late 1980s, and forms a part of the seventh-day Sabbatarian Churches of God, following the teachings of the WCG's founder, Herbert W. Armstrong. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, the COG-PKG is an international church which is mostly active on the Internet ...
Herbert W. Armstrong (July 31, 1892 – January 16, 1986) was an American evangelist who founded the Worldwide Church of God (WCG). An early pioneer of radio and television evangelism, Armstrong preached what he claimed was the comprehensive combination of doctrines in the entire Bible, in the light of the New Covenant scriptures, which he maintained to be the restored true Gospel. [3]
The LCG's founder and Presiding Evangelist was, until his death, Roderick C. Meredith (June 21, 1930 – May 18, 2017). Following Meredith's graduation from Ambassador College in Pasadena, California in June 1952, he was assigned by Herbert W. Armstrong (Pastor General of the Worldwide Church of God) to set up and pastor WCG congregations in Portland, Oregon; San Diego, California; and Seattle ...
CGI was led by Armstrong until 1998. [6] Armstrong and the ministerial leadership aimed to develop a "servant-leadership type of ministry" in contrast to the "one man, top down leadership", of the WCG—this was an important point of departure for the founders after what was perceived to be years of ministerial abuse of power within the WCG, even though Ted himself continued to be very ...
WCG may refer to: World Cyber Games, an international e-sports event; World Combat Games, a sports event; Wide Color Gamut; World Community Grid, for scientific research computing; Worldwide Church of God, renamed Grace Communion International in 2009; WCG (firm), an advertising agency; WCG (college), a group of UK colleges
The Global Church of God (GCG) is a Sabbatarian church based in England. [1] It was founded in Glendora, CA in 1992 by Roderick C. Meredith. [2] Following the dissolution of most church operations in the United States, GCG's operations shifted to the United Kingdom and reestablished a presence in North America under new organizational identities.