The International Assemblies of God Fellowship is an independent, cooperative fellowship of ministers, ministries and churches of Trinitarianism Trinitarian Baptistic Pentecostals. Their membership is worldwide, and all churches are independent and autonomous of the fellowship. Dr. Phillip Murray is the President. The IAOGF should not be confused with the Assemblies of God International Fellowship , and or the Assemblies of God General Council of the Assemblies of God . Church website http www.iaog.org www.IAOG.org Category Pentecostal denominations Christian denomination stub ... more details
The Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches FFBC is a fellowship of independent autonomous fundamentalist churches established in 1939. It is considered only a fellowship of like minded churches, rather than a denomination. Local congregations in the fellowship have no financial obligations to the fellowship, and the fellowship exercises no control over them. It is only expected that the churches believe and teach a fundamentalist theology. Doctrinally, the FFBC professes to hold these distinctives Biblically literal in our interpretation dispensational not covenantal in our theology premillennial and pretribulational in our eschatology evangelistic and missions oriented in our outreach Biblically separated in personal life and ecclesiastical associations, and baptistic with regard to the mode and subjects of baptism. They also oppose the Pentecostal and Charismatic movement Charismatic movements, holding that spiritual gifts such as Glossolalia speaking in tongues were sign gifts that ceased to operate after the close of the New Testament canon. Currently 2004 , the FFBC has 21 fellowshipping congregations, with about half in the state of New Jersey . The fellowship operates the Tri State Bible Camp & Conference Center in Montague, New Jersey a mission board known as Fundamental Bible Missions and the Fundamental Bible Institute for ministerial training. Most churches in the fellowship are either Bible Churches or Baptist Churches . The Fellowship of Fundamental Bible Churches is a member of the American Council of Christian Churches . External links http fellowshipoffundamentalbiblechurches.wordpress.com Official Web Site Category Fundamentalist denominations Category Religious organizations established in 1939 ... more details
unreferenced date February 2007 Baptist Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada SGF a fellowship for Baptist churches in Canada holding to either the Baptist Confession of 1646 or 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith 1689 . Leigh Powell, Bill Payne, and Roger Fellows started this loose association of churches in the 1970s as a Reformed Baptist witness in Ontario, Canada . SGF claims to be baptistic, evangelistic, and holds to the doctrine of sovereign grace. Churches hold the authority of Scripture in all matters of faith and practice, the autonomy of the local church, a regenerate church membership, believers baptism by immersion, liberty of conscience, and separation of church & state. Churches believe that God has chosen certain individuals for salvation, but also believe that God uses means to save His elect. The purpose of the SGF is to promote cooperation between member churches, especially in the areas of world missions, church planting, evangelization, & education, and to assist churches in maintaining sound doctrine. Any church requesting membership that agrees with the doctrinal stance and constitution of the SGF may be received by a 2 3 majority vote of the delegates of the Sovereign Grace Fellowship . The governance of the Fellowship is committed to a Board of Directors, General Coordinator, and Treasurer, chosen by the delegates in general assembly. The General Assembly is held annually, and each member church is allowed 3 delegates, who must be either elders or deacons of the church they represent. The Sovereign Grace Fellowship had 10 member churches in 2003, located in New Brunswick and Ontario . External links http www.sgfcanada.com Official web site Canada baptist denominations Category Baptist denominations in North America Category Reformed denominations in North America ... more details
Baptist The Baptist Union of Denmark lang da Baptistkirken i Danmark is a national organization of Baptists in Denmark for promoting cooperation in missions, benevolence, and education. The first work in Denmark generally considered Baptist began in 1839 when Julius K bner, a Danish Jew, visited Denmark and met some individuals holding baptistic views. K bner was an associate of and co worker with Johann Gerhard Oncken 1800 1884 , often considered the father of European Baptists. Oncken baptized these believers and established a church in Copenhagen in that year. Until 1849, when religious liberty was granted through the Constitution of 1849, Baptists were fined, imprisoned, and their infants baptized by compulsion. The Baptists were instrumental in the obtaining of religious freedom in Denmark. The Baptist Union was formed in 1849, and remained a part of the German Baptist Union until 1888. In that year, it was reorganized, influenced by the emigration of Danish Baptists to the United States , and the returning influence of American Baptists on the Danish. The New Hampshire Confession of Faith was adopted in place of the German Confession of 1847 . A number of Danish pastors studied at Morgan Park Seminary in Chicago, Illinois . In 1918, they established their own theological seminary. Doctrinally, the Danish Baptists have evolved from a generally Calvinism Calvinistic closed Baptist tradition to a more Arminian ecumenical body. Open communion has been practiced since the 1930s, and today they occasionally accept members from pedobaptist traditions. These Baptists have also changed from a membership of mostly farmers and laborers to an upper middle class membership. The Baptist Union of Denmark is a member of the European Baptist Federation , the Baptist World Alliance , and the World Council of Churches . According to the Union, membership in 2008 included 5260 members in 50 congregations. ref http www.baptistkirken.dk index.php?id 30 www.baptistkirken.dk Hvem er ... more details
The Church of Christ, Instrumental , also known as Kelleyites , are a baptistic body of Christianity Christians based in central Arkansas . Names In the only book written about this group they are called the Church of Christ, Instrumental or Kelleyites . Elder E. J. Lambert, a Primitive Baptist minister who was raised among this body, and whose father was a minister of the Church of Christ , consistently refers to them in his autobiography as the Church of Christ Kelly Division of Missionary Baptists . They are referred to as Kelleyites in official documents of the Works Progress Administration in the 1940s. History The Kelleyites owe their name and origin to Samuel Kelley. Kelley was born in 1817 in what is now Pike County, Arkansas , but in early adulthood he moved to Illinois . In Illinois, he first connected himself to the Methodist s, but later joined the Baptists and was ordained by them in 1838. Shortly after this he returned to Arkansas. A difference in practice between the Baptists with whom he was connected in Illinois and the Baptists in Arkansas was evidently a contributing factor to the rise of the Kelley division of the missionary Baptist church. Among other things, the Baptists in Illinois received Samuel Kelley on his Methodist baptism, which was foreign to the practice of Arkansas Baptists. Kelley was a prominent and successful citizen by the standards of his day. He lived in Pike County and later in Howard County, Arkansas Howard County . He was elected to at least one term in the State Legislature. His church was a member of the Red River Baptist Association . In 1856, Kelley was invited to preach at the meeting of the Caddo River Baptist Association . In this sermon, he preached the doctrine of apostasy, or falling from grace. The next morning the Caddo River Association passed resolutions against Elder Kelley, his doctrine of apostasy, the fact he had not been baptized by a Baptist, and also withdrew fellowship from the Red River Association. The next ... more details
Multiple issues advert January 2010 intromissing January 2010 notability October 2008 unreferenced October 2008 The work of the Baptist Missionary Society of England in the 20th Century was the beginning of Christianity in the Lairam Lai people Lai Land , India. BMS Missionary missionaries such as Rev. J.H Lorrain & Rev. F.W Savidge were the pioneers who evangelized the Lai and developed them into ecclesiastical formation. Since then, the Lai Baptists continue to grow until they were established and organized into a body called ASSEMBLY Convention in two stages 1970 and 1982. For quite sometime, since the Lai Baptist were formed into two groups they grew in parallel on the basis of their stages of formation. Formerly the first group was called THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST and the second group called LAIRAM BAPTIST CHURCH . After a hard struggle for reunification the two paralleled groups came together and merged as one body in the year 1999. The united Lai Baptist Body was first called THE LAIRAM CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST without bearing any Baptist name. However, since they are of Baptist origin, they are always baptistic in confession and practice. In the annual Assembly of 2003 at Lawngtlai Electric Local Church it was unanimously resolved to rename the Church as LAIRAM JESUS CHRIST BAPTIST CHURCH Lairam Isua Krista Baptist Kohhran . Inter denominational connections Right from the beginning Lairam Jesus Christ Baptist Church desired to established relationship with other Baptist Church in India and in abroad. In fact, it has applied for membership to the National, Continental and Global Baptist Organization for many years. In spite of some misunderstanding and problems with the former Baptist Church of Mizoram , both Churches have now established formal inter delegation and relationship by reciprocally sending delegates to their respective Annual General Assemblies. Moreover, leaders of the Baptist Church of Mizoram are open hearted not only to recognize the Lairam Ba ... more details
Infobox Christian denomination name General Council of the Assemblies of God USA image Assemblies of God Logo.png imagewidth 150 caption main classification Protestant orientation Pentecostal polity mixed Presbyterian polity Presbyterian and Congregationalist polity Congregational polity ref name churchidchange Roozen 2005, p. 100. ref ref name Welcomecommunity Assemblies of God USA. http ag.org top Press organization.cfm Welcome to Our Community . Accessed October 12, 2010. ref founder founded date 1914 founded place Hot Springs, Arkansas separated from Church of God in Christ and Christian and Missionary Alliance parent merger Several Pentecostal groups separations Pentecostal Assemblies of the World General Assembly of the Apostolic Churches associations World Assemblies of God Fellowship , br Pentecostal World Fellowship , br Pentecostal Charismatic Churches of North America , br National Association of Evangelicals area United States aid Convoy of Hope congregations 12,457 ref name Churches2010 Assemblies of God USA, http agchurches.org Sitefiles Default RSS AG.org 20TOP AG 20Statistical 20Reports 2010 20Stats ChuOpCl2010.pdf U.S. AG Churches Opened and Closed 1965 2010 , page 2. Accessed August 4, 2011. ref members 3,030,944 adherents br 1,753,881 members ref name VitalStatsp2 ministers missionaries website http ag.org top ag.org footnotes small persons of all ages who identify with an AG church ref name mediakit http ag.org top Press Media kit.pdf An Overview of the Assemblies of God . Accessed September 17, 2010. ref small The General Council of the Assemblies of God in the United States of America or Assemblies of God USA AG USA is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States founded in 1914 during a meeting of Pentecostal ministers at Hot Springs, Arkansas . With a constituency of over 3 million, ref name VitalStatsp2 it was ranked the ninth largest denomination in the United States in 2011. ref name nccyearbook11 National Council of Churches ... more details
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