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Expansion across the continent and changes due to the Industrial Revolution caused strain and conflict among the Brethren. In the early 1880s a major schism took place resulting in a three-way split: The traditional Old German Baptist Brethren, the progressive Brethren Church, and the conservative German Baptist Brethren, who later changed their name to the Church of the Brethren in 1908.
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, also known as Raven-Taylor-Hales Brethren; Local churches (affiliation), also known as Church Assembly Hall; Open Brethren. Gospel Hall Brethren, also known as Gospel Hall Assemblies; Needed Truth Brethren, also known as Churches of God; Indian Brethren, an Evangelical premillennial religious movement
Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged. While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who ...
Many Brethren joined Brethren Volunteer Service and Heifers for Relief, which incorporated independently in 1953 and eventually became Heifer International. The Brethren helped establish the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), which was originally housed at Bethany Biblical Seminary, the Brethren seminary in Oak Brook, Illinois.
ICOMB was originally conceived by leaders of MBMS International (now known as "Multiply") at an international mission consultation in Curitiba, Brazil in 1988. ICOMB functions as a framework for Mennonite Brethren conferences (national associations of congregations) worldwide to relate as peers rather than as mission churches under the ...
International Council of Community Churches: Community Church movement Korean Presbyterian Church Abroad: Reformed (Presbyterian) Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, American diocese Oriental Orthodox Mar Thoma Church: Reformed Moravian Church in America: Moravian National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. Baptist (Historically Black) Orthodox Church ...
Conservative Grace Brethren Churches, International; Covenant Brethren Chuch; D. Dunkard Brethren Church; O. Old Brethren Church; Old Brethren German Baptist;
Logo of the Union of Evangelical Free Churches Emmanuel Baptist Church in Wolfsburg, affiliated with the Union.. The Union of Evangelical Free Churches in Germany (Bund Evangelisch-Freikirchlicher Gemeinden, BEFG; Baptist and Brethren congregations) has its origins in the first Baptist church in Hamburg founded by the German missionary Johann Gerhard Oncken in 1834.