Category: Conference Historian
CHURCH PLANTING BY THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
April 17, 2025
Alwyn York, Conference Historian Church planting is now one of the main priorities of the CCCC. This focus began in the late 1990s, so it is a fairly recent feature of this Conference, but it is not something that is new to Congregationalism as a whole. The nineteenth century in particular was a period when […]
Congregational Church Planting History
December 13, 2024
Alwyn York, Conference Historian Church planting is one of the three main priorities of the CCCC. This priority is described in the 4C yearbook this way: “We are working to launch a church multiplication movement to start new, healthy, disciple-making congregations across the nation.” In a sense this is a relatively new priority for our […]
CCCC Heritage: Evangelical & Reformed Church
September 12, 2024
Alwyn York, Conference Historian Since the 1990’s, a number of churches which originated in the Evangelical & Reformed Church have come into the CCCC. My previous article introduced this denomination. In this article I will give an overview of its history. The Evangelical and Reformed Church was the merger of two previously separate denominations. In […]
CCCC Heritage: Evangelical & Reformed Church
May 23, 2024
Alwyn York, Conference Historian The presence of churches with an Evangelical and Reformed background in the CCCC is a fairly recent development. The Conference was formed in 1948, and it was not until the early 1990’s that a number of E & R churches began to join. Since then there has been a steady influx […]