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| | | | | History of Congregational Churches | | We covenant one with another to seek and respond to the word and the will of God. We purpose to walk together in the ways of the Lord, made known and to be made known to us. We hold it to be the mission of the church to witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ in all the world, while worshipping God, and striving for truth, justice and peace. As did those who came before, we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead and empower us. We pray for the coming of the kingdom of God, and we look with faith toward the triumph of righteousness and eternal life. [More] | |  |
| | | | | History of The Christian Church in America | FELLOWSHIP OF THE CHURCHES. In the New Testament we find the Churches associated with one another as equals, with neither one Church claiming authority over the others, nor the several Churches lording it over the one. The early Churches lived together in an atmosphere of mutual love, not in a relationship of dominance and submission. Congregationalists, following their example, have companied together because they wanted to, not because a book of discipline forced them to. Any ecclesiastical organization which attempts to define, describe, or delineate the life, work, and relationships of our Churches violates the Congregational principle of fellowship because it presumes to put in black and white what ought to be written only on the heart.
COVENANT
We covenant one with another to seek and respond to the word and the will of God. We purpose to walk together in the ways of the Lord, made known and to be made known to us. We hold it to be the mission of the church to witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ in all the world, while worshipping God, and striving for truth, justice and peace. As did those who came before, we depend on the Holy Spirit to lead and empower us. We pray for the coming of the kingdom of God, and we look with faith toward the triumph of righteousness and eternal life. [More] | | |
| |  | | | St. James Methodist Church | Central City, CO |Colorado’s oldest church? | St. James Methodist Church in Central City is the oldest church in Colorado still used as a church. Yes, the original church in Conejos was built earlier, but the exterior of St. James looks exactly the same in 2005 as in late 1871 when it was completed. The original church of Our Lady of Guadalupe is no longer visible, eclipsed by several handsome additions. The humble adobe church built in the late 1850s no longer exists. St. James is unarguably the oldest Protestant congregation (1859) and oldest Protestant church in the state.
As America expanded westward in the 19th century, the Methodist Church sent lay speakers and ministers to the edges of civilization, gaining a reputation as “the frontier church.” Two Methodist preachers, William Goode and Jacob Adriance, arrived in Central City in early July 1859, just a few weeks after John Gregory discovered gold on May 6 and began the “Pikes Peak or Bust Gold Rush.” (Goode would later say that he, too, was a miner, in a different way.) [More] | | |
| |  | | | Bally, Pennsylvania | 1731 | The Borough of Bally was originally called Goshenhoppen, possibly deriving from an Indian word meaning "meeting place". Others claim the name derives from German settlers from Goshen, PA calling the area their haven or "Hafen" in German, eventually becoming "Goshenhoppen".[1] Mennonites and Catholics settled it in the early 18th century. Clergyman Ulrich Beidler erected the first house of worship, the Mennonite Church in 1731. Father Theodore Schneider, a Jesuit priest, came to the area in 1741 and established what would be just the third Catholic mission church in the 13 original colonies. On land received from the Mennonite community, Father Schneider built St. Paul's Chapel in 1743. St. Paul's is now known as the Most Blessed Sacrament Church, and it is the oldest existing Catholic place of worship in Pennsylvania and the fourth oldest Catholic structure in the thirteen original colonies.
Later in 1743 Father Schneider started a Catholic school at the mission church. The school, originally called St. Aloysius Academy, also marked the beginning of Catholic education in the 13 original colonies. After several name changes, it is currently known as St. Francis Academy, and is the oldest currently operating co-educational Catholic school in the nation.
To reflect the many churches in the town (as there were also several other churches in the area of different denominations), Goshenhoppen was renamed Churchville. When the post office was established in 1883, the townsfolk changed the name to "Bally" in memory of Fr. Augustine Bally, S.J., a Catholic pastor beloved by all, who had died the previous year.[2][3] Bally was incorporated as a borough in 1912, with Henry Eddinger, son of Frederick K. and Sophia (Miller) Eddinger, appointed as the first Burgess.
Bally has traditionally been a home of many Pennsylvania Dutch settlers and their descendants.
In 1912, Bally resident Annie Clemmer Funk, a Mennonite missionary to India, died during the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was en route to Bally to visit her ailing mother, and reportedly gave up her seat in a lifeboat to another passenger. [More] | | |
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| |  | | | Captive Faith | Learning at the Feet of Those who Learned in Prison
Welcome to Captive Faith.
This is a web site devoted to people of the Bible and of the Christian faith whose time in prison brought forth some of the most creative, life-changing, and spiritually perceptive writing in all history.
The Christian faith teaches us not to be surprised by adversity. Our Lord, Teacher and Savior, after all, died a horrific death in a public execution by crucifixion after a rigged trial. Countless numbers of his followers over the centuries have died or gone to prison for his sake. Others have gone to prison because of their own misdeeds and there found the liberation of the Gospel that turned their prison experience into a discovery of grace and joy.
Reading accounts of what they endured and seeing how they bore up under hardship can re-energize our spiritual lives.
In these pages you will meet Bible characters such as Joseph and Paul, and Christian prisoners through the ages, such as Pothinus, Joan of Arc, and Toyohiko Kagawa. They left a triumphant legacy for our encouragement and edification.
Captive Faith was developed by Christian History Institute. All DVDs described in these pages are available through Vision Video. [More] | | |
| | | | | Churches | Churches-In.com | | Churches-In.com assists you in your search for churches in the United States. A searchable directory of Christian churches in the United States with links to Church Profiles and maps. You may also see a list of all Churches in the U.S. Join the other 109816 churches in our directory. | | |
| |  | | | Evangelical Lutheran in America Churches - ChurchFinder.com | Evangelical Lutheran in America
Scripture, tradition and the Lutheran confessions characterize the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. This Lutheran denomination was established on January 1,1988 and remains the largest Lutheran group in the USA at this time. They observe two sacraments: the Communion and the Holy Baptism.
Denomination Category: Lutheran
Est. Number of Churches(US): 10,862
Est. Number of Members (US) 5,178,000 [More] | | |
| | | | | How It Works - Find My Church | | Find My Church is currently in Private Beta with a select group of churches. The full service (and this website) will be launching mid-December. Please check back after 12/15 for more about the local church marketing service. | | |
| | | | | Christian Websites Top 100 | A brief guide to what to look out for on a good Christian website:-
1. Check to see if the site has a "statement of faith", or "articles of faith" (and read it!). This is a good way to determine whether or not the site is rooted in mainstream Christianity or is a cult based faith.
2. Does the site have a contact page? Without a contact page you have no way of contacting the author or webmaster should you have any questions about the content on the site.
3. Christian articles on websites about matters of faith should always refer or allude to the scriptures. The origins of Christianity are recorded in the bible, and hence the bible is the main reference point for any discussion about doctrine or Christian belief.
4. Another sign of a trustworthy site is whether or it's content is linked to or from other established Christian sites, and whether or not the site links out to other authoritative sites on the Christian faith, for example, Bible Gateway (www.biblegateway.com) or the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (www.ccel.org). [More] | | |
| |  | | | School of Biblical & Theological Studies - School of Biblical & Theological Studies | | Founded in 1995, The School of Biblical & Theological Studies (SB&TS) is one of the most popular online Bible colleges in the world. With over 800 active students, SB&TS has offices and campuses throughout the United States, Asia, and Africa. Students from six continents are currently pursuing degrees at the bachelor's, master's, and doctorate levels. SB&TS graduates are serving the Lord all over the world as pastors, evangelists, missionaries, school teachers, school administrators, and in music and media ministry. SB&TS will teach you how to understand, apply and communicate the truth of God's Word in today's world. [More] | | |
| |  | | | FundamentalTop500.com :: Fundamental Baptist, KJV Sites on the Internet | The purpose of TheFundamentalTop500.com is more than just tracking which web sites get the most traffic. Our underlying purpose is to help the creators of web sites get more traffic to their sites by providing a FREE way for them to get additional exposure to fundamental, KJV Christians on the Internet.
It's amazing how many wonderful resources exist out there for fundamental Baptists, yet many of the finest web sites have a very small amount of traffic. It doesn't take long to learn that you can create the best web site on the Internet but that it is next to useless if you can't get people to visit it. Most of the folks who create and maintain fundamental Baptist web sites do not have a marketing budget -- or any budget, for that matter.
By providing a no-cost way for folks to publicize their web sites, we hope to encourage the future development of existing sites and the creation of additional fundamental Baptist web sites. At the same time, our resource provides a handy list of fundamental Baptist web sites for Internet users to "surf."
In our effort to help web sites get more traffic, we are very conscious of the fact that we could potentially take traffic away from web sites. We absolutely don't want users coming away from your site to ours, since that would defeat our chief purpose. To minimize that possibility, we have written our link code in such a manner that when someone clicks on our logo on your site, our site opens in a new window. That way, your site is still there and we minimize the risk of diverting traffic away from your site to ours. That is not real good marketing on our part, but our goal is to help publicize your site.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at support@fundamentaltop500.com.
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| |  | | | CATALYST CONFERENCE | FELLOWSHIP | WOW | | Our Catalyst Fellowship Program is an opportunity for recent college graduates who have a driving desire to be a part of a mission for leaders who love the local church. The program is designed to build ambassadors of world-class leadership within any level of an organization through providing professional learning experiences (internally & externally), bi-monthly meetings fostering career enrichment conversations, opportunities to network within the organization, and a structure for personal growth. [More] | | |
| | | | | Yeshua in Context | | VERSION 1: Yeshua the Galilean came suddenly onto the scene of public life in Judea through the work of John the Baptizer (Yohanan, with a hard, throaty “h”). Later, the community of his disciples would ask questions about his birth and early life, but I will tell those stories at the end. The beginning of his impact on Jewish life in the first century was in a movement of new hope led by an unlikely figure, a hard man whose popularity had nothing to do with charisma and everything to do with the long-supressed hopes of Israelites in that day. God the King seems to have returned in power through this circle of penitents dipping themselves in the waters where Israel first entered the land. VERSION 2 (shorter sentences, simpler style): … Read entire article » [More] | | |
| | | | | Licensing and Ordination | | Generally, a license is called the “Certificate of License for the Gospel Ministry”, and has also been known as a "License to Preach". Though preaching is a primary focus of pastoral ministry, other gifts may also be recognized by licensing. | | |
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