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Urban Ministries, Inc. (UMI) is an independent, African American-owned and operated Christian media company founded in 1970. [1] UMI is based in Chicago and publishes Christian resources, including Sunday School and Vacation Bible School curricula, books, movies, and websites designed for African American churches and others seeking a diverse perspective on faith and life issues.
Jesus People USA (JPUSA) pronounced: ǰ-pu-sa is a Christian intentional community [1] in Uptown, on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. JPUSA emerged from Jesus People Milwaukee in 1972, and maintains one of the largest continuing communities (100–450 members) produced by the Jesus movement . [ 2 ]
The church building is a one-story, three bay by five bay, Late Italianate style frame building. It features an entrance tower with louvered vents, four cross gables with wooden finials at the peak, and bracketed eaves. Also on the property is the contributing session house, built about 1884, and the church cemetery with about 250 gravestones. [2]
Moody Bible Institute (MBI) is a private evangelical Christian [2] [3] Bible college in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. Historically, MBI has maintained positions that have identified it as non-charismatic , dispensational , and generally Calvinistic . [ 4 ]
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) [note 1] is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada. [2] [3] The denomination started with the Restoration Movement during the Second Great Awakening, first existing during the 19th century as a loose association of churches working toward Christian unity.
The original church building was constructed in 1765, but was destroyed by fire. The current church building and session house were constructed 1854. The church is a one-story, three bay by four bay, rectangular vernacular Greek Revival-style brick church. The church's cemetery contains gravestones dating to the 18th century. [2] [3]
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Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist (Chicago, Illinois) Postcard image: 6154 S. Woodlawn Ave., [62] Chicago, Cook County, Illinois: Dissolved First Church and Ninth Church merged in 1949, and retained the First Church name. [63] [64] Ninth's building was sold to St. John Baptist Temple in 1956, [65] and Christ Church Chicago in 2020. [66 ...