The local churches are a Christian group which was started in China in the 1920s and have spread globally. The basic organizing principle of the local churches...

Local churches often relate with, affiliate with, or consider themselves to be constitutive parts of denominations, which are also called churches in...

Local church may refer to: Church (congregation), a congregation meeting in a particular location Local churches (affiliation), a Christian group founded...

The local churches and the ministry of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee have been the subject of controversy in two major areas over the past fifty years....

itself (comprising Roman and Eastern Churches). Within the Catholic Church there are local particular churches, of which dioceses are the most familiar...

largest group of Baptist churches is the Baptist World Alliance, and there are many different groupings of Baptist churches and Baptist congregations...

used in Protestant churches. A mother church is one from which other "daughter churches" were planted nearby. The oldest churches of various religious...

The group of churches known as the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ is a fellowship of congregations within the Restoration Movement (also known...

to the American Baptist Churches USA. Rather than relying on decision-making at the annual convention by whichever churches happened to send delegates...

between various holiness churches, associations and denominations throughout the 20th century, with roots starting in the 1880s. Churches with similar points...

October 2016[update], church members are dispersed over 4,512 local churches—unevenly distributed over a small number of large churches and a large number...

plural) in a city. As the Church continued to expand, new churches in important cities gained their own bishop. Churches in the regions outside an important...

name of the church. Formally, churches do not say they are "NCMI churches", rather they "partner with NCMI". NCMI encourages local church elders to follow...

Syrian Church The Churches of the Anglican Communion The Old Catholic churches Numerous smaller "catholic" churches Certain national churches of the Lutheran...

organic unity of churches, it is much more suspect. While not being a member of the World Council of Churches, the Adventist Church has participated in...

approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.The UCC is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under...

Orthodox Churches, Lutheran churches, Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox churches, Methodist churches, Anglican Communion, Reformed churches, among others...

(also Congregationalist churches or Congregational churches) is a Protestant, Reformed (Calvinist) tradition in which churches practice congregational...

a dozen Methodist/Wesleyan churches and mission organisations in Hungary, but all Methodist churches lost official church status under new legislation...

Indigenous churches are churches suited to local culture and led by local Christians. There have been two main Protestant strategies proposed for the creation...

servants: local church lay servant, who serve in and through their local churches, and certified lay servants, who serve in their own churches, in other...

Stone-Campbell movement as their roots: Churches of Christ, Christian churches and churches of Christ, and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Some see...

Catholic Church (including the Eastern Catholic Churches), Protestant denominations with at least 0.2 million members (including Anglican churches, which...

a proper function of a local congregation. These local churches became separated from "mainline" (pro-institutional) churches of Christ because of these...

streets, built a soccer field for local ministries and renovated buildings. In 2011, Elevation and over 25 other local churches served more than 34,000 hours...

Churches or World Communion of Reformed Churches. Due to problems related to church property when splitting from the PC(USA), in the PCA all church buildings...

federation of churches at first calling themselves the Wesleyan Methodist Connection, a name chosen to emphasize the primacy of the local church, and the intended...

Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are...

Nondenominational churches adhere to congregationalist polity, every local church is independent, take for example cowboy churches. Often congregating...

Council of Churches (now the National Council of Churches), and it continues to be engaged in ecumenical conversations. The Disciples' local churches are congregationally...