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The AMA (American Missionary Association) was one of the organizations responsible for pushing slavery onto the national political agenda. [citation needed] The organization started the American Missionary magazine, published from 1846 through 1934. [2] Among the AMA's achievements was the founding of anti-slavery churches.
Christ Church is an Anglican megachurch in Plano, Texas. It serves as the provincial pro-cathedral for the Anglican Church in North America . Planted in 1985 in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas , Christ Church, as part of the Anglican realignment , later became a founding congregation of the ACNA.
Andrews started public life in Houston in 1838, when he co-founded Christ Church in Houston. He served as the founding president of the Houston Board of Health. He served two one-year terms as mayor of Houston in 1841 and 1842, establishing the first city hall in is second year. [1]
The AMA became a division within the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches following a 1927 merger. [7] It continued to work toward causes of civil rights, race relations, and the educational work of the church throughout the mergers of the Congregation, Christian, Evangelical and Reformed churches that occurred in 1931 and in ...
The Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in 1859 during the American Civil War by the American Missionary Association (AMA), a group supported chiefly by the Congregational, Presbyterian and Methodist churches in the North.
The AME Church was founded by Richard Allen (1760–1831) in 1816 when he called together five African American congregations of the previously established Methodist Episcopal Church with the hope of escaping the discrimination that was commonplace in society, including some churches. [7]
Crews on Monday tore down a Texas church where a gunman killed more than two dozen worshippers in 2017, using heavy machinery to raze the small building even after some families sought to preserve ...
Antioch Missionary Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 500 Clay St in Downtown Houston, Texas. It was historically a part of the Fourth Ward. [2] As of 2012 it was the only remaining piece of the original Fourth Ward east of Interstate 45. [3] Former slaves organized Houston's first African-American Baptist congregation in January 1866.