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History. The United Church of Christ began on June 25, 1957 in the union between the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.Dr. James E. Wagner, the president of the Evangelical and Reformed General Synod, and Dr. Fred E. Hoskins, the Minister of the Congregational Christian General Council, were elected co-presidents of the new denomination.
The oldest Evangelical Synod-heritage congregations are believed to be Femme Osage United Church of Christ near Augusta, Missouri; Bethlehem UCC in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Saint John's-Saint Luke Evangelical and Reformed UCC in Detroit, Michigan; or The United Church (UCC/United Methodist) in Washington, D.C., each of which were founded in 1833.
United Church of Christ. The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
St. John's is the oldest German Protestant church in Detroit, founded in 1833 by Rev. Friedrich Schmid, who had been sent to America by the Evangelical Mission Society of Basel, Switzerland. The first worship service took place August 18, 1833 in the carpenter shop of John Hais. Pastor Schmid served the congregation until July 1836.
Website. oaklandcc .edu. Oakland Community College ( OCC) is a public community college with five campuses in Oakland County, Michigan. [2] Established in 1964, OCC is the largest community college in Michigan, with the state's third-largest undergraduate enrollment. [3] Enrollment at the college for the Spring 2022 semester was 14,511. [4]
The church in September 2015. The Peoples Church of East Lansing is an interdenominational Protestant congregation located in the city of East Lansing, Michigan. It is officially a member of (in alphabetical order) the American Baptist Churches USA, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church.
304 (2023) Members. 35,000 (2020) [1] Official website. NACC. The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches ( NACCC) is an association of 304 churches [2] providing fellowship for and services to churches from the Congregational tradition. The Association maintains its national office in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee.
The General Synod of the United Church of Christ is the national decision-making body for the denomination, responsible for giving general direction to the evangelistic, missionary, and justice programs of the UCC. [1] Because the UCC holds to an explicitly congregational polity, though, any decisions made by the Synod are not binding upon the ...