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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.
A group in Nottingham withdrew from the Scotch Baptist church in 1836 to form a Church of Christ. [3]: 369 James Wallis, a member of that group, founded a magazine named The British Millennial Harbinger in 1837. [3]: 369 In 1842 the first Cooperative Meeting of Churches of Christ in Great Britain was held in Edinburgh.
The Refuge Temple in Harlem was the hub of Lawson's evangelistic efforts in the Northeast, which ultimately grew into the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ, or COOLJC. Lawson's field work took him up and down the East Coast , throughout the West Indies , and as far as West Africa, where Lawson appointed missionaries to carry on the church's ...
Some churches in Scotland and Northern Ireland, mainly of the splinter off Presbyterian tradition, have used the name 'Free Church'. The most important of these to persist at the present time is the Free Church of Scotland.The mainline Church of Scotland is the national church which is Presbyterian and the mother kirk for Presbyterianism all over the world, and is not part of the "Free Church".
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The AME Church was created and organized by people of African descent (most descended from enslaved Africans taken to the Americas) as a response to being officially discriminated against by white congregants in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The church was not founded in Africa, nor is it exclusively for people of African descent.
The church was founded when a number of congregations separated from the established Church of England in the middle of the 19th century. [ 1 ] The doctrinal basis of the FCE, together with its Episcopal structures, organisation, worship, ministry and ethos are recognisably Anglican although it is not a member of the Anglican Communion .
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United States. It was officially formed in 1821 in New York City, but operated for a number of years before then. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology. [1]