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The Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

Denomination·Founded 1927 CE·No membership roll exists and none can, since there is no body to keep one. The Christian Standard directory listed about 5,200 congregations at its last compilation, down from nearly 6,800 six years earlier, and a new count was under way as of late 2024. Estimates of adherents commonly run above a million and are not from an audited source.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → Protestantism → The Christian Churches and Churches of Christ

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle Part of Belief →

P P. H. Welshimer — fifty-five years in one pulpit. He preached at First Christian Church in Canton, Ohio, from 1902 until 1957 and built it into the largest congregation in the movement, with a Sunday school that ran into the thousands. He chaired the early North American Christian Conventions and is the movement's pattern of what an independent congregation could be. Domain The independent congregation as a working modelStanding Named as the type of the movement rather than as an authority over it Meet them — context →