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The Disciples of Christ came to Detroit in 1846, as a church was founded by Reverend William Nay. By the 1890s, the congregation had grown enough to construct a large church in downtown Detroit. [5] In 1926 two Detroit congregations, Central Christian Church and Woodward Christian Church merged under the leadership of Dr. Edgar Dewitt Jones ...
On June 10, 2015 it was announced that the voting members at the 2015 West Michigan Annual Conference had voted in favor of joining with the Detroit Annual Conference to create a "New Michigan Area Conference." Pastor Glenn M. Wagner of Grand Haven and Rev. Marsha Woolley of Northville were selected as co-chairs of the new conference. The final ...
In 2014, the IFLC hosted the North American Interfaith Network (NAIN) Connect Conference on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit. The conference theme was "Bridging Borders and Boundaries," and the event attracted over 150 registered guests internationally from 26 states and provinces and 48 different religious groups. [16]
Between 1965 and 1966 the conference center was built on a 16-acre lot on the corner of M-87 and Park Lake Road in East Lansing, Michigan. The Conference also came to own Camp Talahi in Howell. During the 1970s the Michigan Conference joined with the United Church of Christ nationally to participate in the 17/76 Achievement Fund.
Justice and Witness Ministries (JWM) is one of five covenanted ministries of the United Church of Christ. JWM is responsible for national office ministries related to four areas: economic justice ; " human rights , justice for women and transformation;" "public life and social policy;" and "racial justice".
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, established in 1989, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization support group of survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters, founded in the United States. [1] Barbara Blaine, a survivor of sex abuse by a priest, was the founding president.
The Metropolitan United Methodist Church is a church located at 8000 Woodward Avenue (at Chandler) in the New Center area of Detroit, Michigan. It was completed in 1926, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, [ 1 ] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986. [ 2 ]
The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to providing information, resources, and advocacy for victims of all types of crime, as well as the people who serve them. The National Center for Victims of Crime hosts the annual National Training Institute, designed to share current ...