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Clay Evans (June 23, 1925 – November 27, 2019) was an African American Baptist pastor and founder of the influential Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, famous for its gospel music infused Sunday service and choir. [1] Evans released his first musical project in 1984, What He's Done For Me with Savoy Records.
The Fellowship Foundation traces its roots to Abraham Vereide, a Methodist clergyman and social innovator, who organized a month of prayer meetings in 1934 in San Francisco. [11] The Fellowship was founded in 1935 in opposition to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. [12] His work spread down the West Coast and eventually to Boston. [13]
In 2016, Yechiel Eckstein publicly blessed Yael as the one he envisioned running IFCJ. In 2017, the Fellowship's board—excluding her father, according to Yael—designated her as president-elect. [7] In 2019, after her father's death at 67, she became president and CEO of The Fellowship, the Chicago-based nonprofit with an office in Israel. [1]
Jenkins is married to Dr. Tara Rawls Jenkins and together they have three children, Princess, Paris, and Charles III. He served as Senior Pastor of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church (Fellowship Chicago or The Ship) from 2000 to 2019. [3] He serves as a Ministry Partner at Vanderbloemen Search Group.
Anthony Tyrone "Tony" Evans Sr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American evangelical pastor, speaker, author, and widely syndicated radio and television broadcaster.Between 1976 and 2024, Evans served as senior pastor at the over-9,500-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas.
The church moved into a converted warehouse in Rolling Meadows, Illinois in 1995 [1] and grew to include as many as 8 campuses; [2] it added campuses in Elgin and Niles in 2004; Crystal Lake in 2007; downtown Chicago in 2009; Aurora in 2011; Deerfield Road in 2012; and Naples in 2018. The church's rapid growth led to its inclusion in Outreach ...
The International Churches of Christ (ICOC) is a body of decentralized, co-operating, religiously conservative and racially integrated Christian congregations. [6] [better source needed] [7] Originating from the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, the ICOC emerged from the discipling movement within the Churches of Christ in the 1970s.
In 1896, Harris moved to Chicago, eventually settling in the Morgan Park neighborhood, where he lived the rest of his life (except for spending summers in Michigan and winters in Alabama during his later years). [2] It was 2 July 1910 in Chicago that Harris married Jean Thomson, a Scotswoman whom he had met at a local nature club. Jean traveled ...