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With the formation of the Watch Tower Society, Russell intensified his ministry. His Bible study group had grown to hundreds of local members, with followers throughout New England, the Virginias, Ohio, and elsewhere. They annually re-elected him "Pastor", and commonly referred to him as "Pastor Russell".
According to an 1868 account, 45 men and 3 women members of the U.S.C.C. died during the Civil War. [11] The USCC participated in a religious revival within the Union Army between 1863 and 1865. Converts numbered between 100,000 and 200,000 men. [12]
The "Home" was commissioned by Abraham Lincoln, and was a self-contained community with a farm, dairy barn, hospital, power/heating plant, gymnasium, banquet hall, chapel, and residence halls. Lincoln challenged the states to bind up the wounds of the Civil War by meeting the needs of widows and orphans created by the conflict.
Parsley founded his church in 1977, after leading a Bible study in his parents' backyard while still a college student. Seventeen people attended the first meeting. [4] They soon decided that the Bible study group should become a church. It originally became known as Sonrise Chapel, and later Word of Life Church.
[14] [1] The newspaper sparked the formation of bible study groups around the university. [2] [12] Bible studies were conducted for several years at the "Fish House," a large campus-area residence where a group of OSU students lived. The group was known as "Fish House Fellowship" at the time.
Ohio Central Bible College was established at Iberia in 2009. It is an independent, nondenominational Bible college in the evangelical Christian tradition that was created for the people of Morrow County and the six county region. Ohio Central Bible College offers a one-year program leading to a diploma in Bible studies.
The Churches of Christ in Christian Union (CCCU) is a Wesleyan-Holiness and Restorationist Christian denomination.. The CCCU has a presence in 15 U.S. states and several nations, with about 200 churches in the United States. [1]
American Bible Society publishes and distributes interconfessional translations of the Christian Bible [1] and provides study aids and other tools to help people engage with it. Founded on May 11, 1816, in New York City , it is best known for its Good News Translation of the Bible, written in the contemporary vernacular.