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The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, now the Little Rock Community Church, is a historic church building at 2000 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story Mission style building, designed by noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand and completed in 1919. Characteristics of the Mission style include the low ...
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist (Rock Island, Illinois). This is a list of former Christian Science churches, societies, and buildings.Following its early meteoric rise, the Christian Science Church suffered a steep decline in membership in the second half of the twentieth century.
Members of the church of Christ do not conceive of themselves as a new church started near the beginning of the 19th century. Rather, the whole movement is designed to reproduce in contemporary times the church originally established on Pentecost, A.D. 33. The strength of the appeal lies in the restoration of Christ's original church.
The present church congregation using this building is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1] in 2014 a church plant named Central Presbyterian Church (PCA) was started in the Hillcrest Neighborhood and was renamed Central Hope Church in 2019.
The churches are independent congregations and typically go by the name "Christian Church", but often use the name "Church of Christ" as well. Though isolated exceptions may occur, it is generally agreed within the movement that no personal or family names should be attached to a congregation which Christ purchased and established with his own blood, though geographical labels are acceptable.
FPCNLR began in the late 1930s, initially meeting in a storefront on East Washington Street with a small group of 20 Pentecostal believers. Under the leadership of A.O. Holmes, who became pastor in 1946, the congregation grew, moving to a two-story house at Second and Buckeye, where they later built a church in 1949.
Mason obtained a preaching license from Mount Gayle Missionary Baptist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was then cast out for preaching about holiness and sanctification. With the help of exiled members, Mason established the Church of God in Christ. It consisted of 110 churches spread across Mississippi, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
In July 2008, Dr. Robert Cornwall became the ninth called pastor to serve the church. [6] In 1978, the building at 9000 Woodward was sold to Little Rock Missionary Baptist church, a primarily African American congregation founded in 1938. [5] Today the church is known as 'The Historic Little Rock Baptist Church'. [7]