THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK OF DENOMINATIONS AND MINISTRIES GEORGE THOMAS KURIAN AND SARAH CLAUDINE DAY, EDITORS C George Thomas Kurian and Sarah Claudine Day, eds., The Essential Handbook of Denominations and Ministries Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2017. Used by permission. _Kurian-Day_BakerHandbook_JK_bb.indd 3 11/18/16 11:16 AM These websites are hyperlinked. www.bakerpublishinggroup.com www.bakeracademic.com © 2017 by George Thomas Kurian www.brazospress.com Published by Baker Books www.chosenbooks.com a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com http://www.bakerbooks.com www.bethanyhouse.com Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kurian, George Thomas, editor. Title: The essential handbook of denominations and ministries / George Thomas Kurian and Sarah Claudine Day, editors. Description: Grand Rapids : Baker Books, 2017. Identifiers: LCCN 2016012033 | ISBN 9780801013249 (cloth) Subjects: LCSH: Christian sects. Classification: LCC BR157 .E87 2017 | DDC 280.0973—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016012033 Scripture quotations labeled ASV are from the American Standard Version of the Bible. Scripture quotations labeled KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible. Scripture quotations labeled NASB are from the New American Standard Bible®, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Scripture quotations labeled NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com Scripture quotations labeled NIV 1984 are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com Scripture quotations labeled NKJV are from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permis- sion. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations labeled RSV are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations labeled TNIV are from the Holy Bible, Today’s New International Version®. TNIV®. Copyright © 2001, 2005 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 George Thomas Kurian and Sarah Claudine Day, eds., The Essential Handbook of Denominations and Ministries Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2017. Used by permission. _Kurian-Day_BakerHandbook_JK_bb.indd 4 11/18/16 11:16 AM Contents Preface x Part 1 Denominations Adventist/Sabbatarian National Association of Free Will Baptists (J. Matthew Advent Christian General Conference (William J. Pinson) 33 Monroe and Philip G. Monroe) 3 National Baptist Convention (Ron J. Bigalke) 35 Church of God, Seventh Day (Joseph M. Holden) 3 National Missionary Baptist Convention of America Primitive Advent Christian Church (George Thomas (R. Philip Roberts) 36 Kurian) 4 National Primitive Baptist Convention, USA (Mark Seventh-Day Adventist Church (Ron J. Bigalke) 5 Nickens) 38 North American Baptist Conference (R. Philip Anglican/Episcopal Roberts) 38 Anglican Church in North America (Dee Renner) 9 Primitive Baptists (Ron J. Bigalke) 40 Apostolic Episcopal Church/Order of Corporate Progressive National Baptist Convention (David M. Reunion (Barbara Wyman) 9 Wilmington) 42 Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches (Sarah Separate Baptists in Christ (Rustin J. Umstattd) 43 Claudine Day) 10 Seventh Day Baptists (Nicholas J. Kersten) 43 Episcopal Church (George Thomas Kurian) 11 Southern Baptist Convention (Ron J. Bigalke) 44 International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church (Mark Nickens) 14 Sovereign Grace Churches (Ron J. Bigalke) 47 Orthodox Anglican Church (Barbara Wyman) 14 Brethren Reformed Episcopal Church (Ron J. Bigalke) 15 Brethren Church, Ashland, Ohio (George Thomas Kurian) 50 Baptist Brethren in Christ Church (George Thomas Alliance of Baptists (Glenn Miller) 18 Kurian) 51 American Baptist Association (Glenn Miller) 19 Christian Brethren/Plymouth Brethren (Ron J. American Baptist Churches in the USA (Glenn Bigalke) 52 Miller) 20 Churches of God, General Conference (Winebrenner) Baptist Bible Fellowship International (R. Philip (Derek Cooper) 54 Roberts) 23 Church of the Brethren (Ron J. Bigalke) 56 Baptist General Conference/Converge (James D. Church of the United Brethren in Christ (Mark A. Smith III) 23 Lamport) 57 Baptist General Convention (R. Philip Roberts) 25 Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches (Ron J. Baptist Missionary Association of America (R. Philip Bigalke) 59 Roberts) 27 Old German Baptist Brethren Church (Warren C. Conservative Baptist Association of America (R. Philip Robertson) 60 Roberts) 28 United Christian Church (George Thomas Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (Glenn Miller) 29 Kurian) 60 General Association of General Baptists (R. Philip United Zion Church (George Thomas Kurian) 61 Roberts) 30 General Association of Regular Baptist Churches (Ron Catholic J. Bigalke) 31 Greek Catholic Church (John DelHousaye) 62 Roman Catholic Church (Ron J. Bigalke) 62 George Thomas Kurian and Sarah Claudine Day, eds., Thev Essential Handbook of Denominations and Ministries Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, © 2017. Used by permission. _Kurian-Day_BakerHandbook_JK_bb.indd 5 11/18/16 11:16 AM Contents Churches of Christ/Christian Churches Independent Fundamental Churches of America Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (Ron J. (Linda Gray) 104 Bigalke) 69 Holiness Christian Union (George Thomas Kurian) 70 American Rescue Workers (George Thomas Churches of Christ (Todd M. Brenneman) 71 Kurian) 106 Churches of Christ in Christian Union (George Christian and Missionary Alliance (Paul L. Thomas Kurian) 73 King) 106 Congregational Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. (Sarah Claudine Conservative Congregational Christian Conference Day) 107 (George Thomas Kurian) 74 Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) (Sarah Claudine Evangelical Association of Reformed and Day) 108 Congregational Christian Churches (Robert Church of God, Holiness (Ron J. Bigalke) 109 Leach) 75 Church of the Nazarene (Floyd Cunningham) 110 National Association of Congregational Christian Evangelical Church (Ryan A. Neal) 111 Churches (George Thomas Kurian) 76 Evangelical Congregational Church (T. C. Reformed Congregational Fellowship (Warren C. Porter) 113 Robertson) 77 Free Methodist Church USA (T. C. Porter) 113 Eastern Orthodox Salvation Army (Myles Werntz) 115 Volunteers of America (Bryan C. Maine) 116 American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (George Thomas Kurian) 79 Wesleyan Church (Ron J. Bigalke) 117 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North Lutheran America (George Thomas Kurian) 79 American Association of Lutheran Churches (George Greek Orthodox Archdiocese (Ron J. Bigalke) 81 Thomas Kurian) 120 Macedonian Orthodox Church (Scott Goins) 82 Apostolic Lutheran Church of America (George Orthodox Church in America (George Thomas Thomas Kurian) 121 Kurian) 84 Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (George Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church Thomas Kurian) 121 (George Thomas Kurian) 86 Church of the Lutheran Brethren (Brent Juliot) 123 Romanian Orthodox Church (George Thomas Church of the Lutheran Confession (Mark Kurian) 86 Braun) 125 Romanian Orthodox Episcopate (George Thomas Conservative Lutheran Association (Dennis W. Kurian) 87 Jowers) 125 Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (Scott Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Alyssa Lehr Rushing) 87 Evans) 126 Serbian Orthodox Church (Scott Goins) 89 Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Mark Braun) 128 Syriac Antiochian Orthodox Catholic Church (Scott Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (Mark Goins) 91 Braun) 129 True Orthodox Church of Greece (Synod of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Mark Metropolitan Cyprian) (John DelHousaye) 92 Braun) 131 Ukrainian National Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Mennonite Exile (Scott Rushing) 93 Apostolic Christian Church (Nazarean) (R. Philip Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Scott Rushing) 93 Roberts) 133 Friends Apostolic Christian Church of America (Michael McMullen) 133 Evangelical Friends Church International (Mark Nickens) 95 Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches (Mark Nickens) 134 Friends General Conference (Mark Nickens) 95 Bible Fellowship Church (Michael McMullen) 135 Friends United Meeting (Mark Nickens) 96 Church of God in Christ, Mennonite (Douglas Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Friends (Phuc Salsbury) 135 Luu) 97 Conservative Mennonite Conference (Michael Religious Society of Friends (Ron J. Bigalke) 97 McMullen) 137