Category: Conference Historian
German Congregationalism
March 1, 2024
ALWYN YORK, CONFERENCE HISTORIAN Many CCCC churches in the Great Plains states and California have a German ethnic heritage. These churches were established by one particular sub-group of German immigrants—the Germans from Russia. They had been living in self-contained colonies of German people on the Russian Steppe. They had settled there at the invitation of […]
CCCC Heritage: Germans from Russia
December 21, 2023
Alwyn York, Conference Historian American Congregationalism is strongly associated with New England and the legacy of the English colonists who settled in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay. Yet a significant number of churches belonging to the CCCC, particularly those in the Great Plains and California, come from a German rather than a Yankee background. These German […]
Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of the CCCC
November 2, 2023
Join us for a virtual discussion with Rev. Dr. Ron Hamilton and Rev. Alwyn York, editors of a new two volume edition of Modern Day Pilgrims: The History of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference published in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference. The first volume, Modern Day […]
The Third “C” in CCCC
Alwyn York, Conference Historian Most people probably assume that the word “Christian” in our Conference name has a general meaning, referring to our identity as a denomination professing faith in Jesus Christ. In reality it has specific reference to a denomination that merged with the Congregationalists in 1931. In that year the group known as […]