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  Evangelical United Brethren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Evangelical United Brethren subsequently merged with The Methodist Church in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church.
The United Brethren Church claims this organization in 1800 as the first denomination to actually begin in the United States.
In 1946, the larger United Brethren branch merged with the Evangelical Association to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
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 About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church.
The essence of United Brethren theology is a commitment to a life-transforming relationship with Jesus Christ.
Christ's presence in a Christian's life is demonstrated by a lifestyle of faithfulness and obedience to God.
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 The Old Chapel in Wayne Township
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ traces its beginnings to a meeting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1767 between its two founders, Martin Boehm, a Mennonite preacher and Philip William Otterbein, a German Reformed preacher.
The United Brethren influence in the part of Rockingham County, Virginia, where Frederick Huddle and Magdalena Byrd and their parents lived was so great that the nearest town to their homes, the small crossroads town of Ottobine, Virginia, was named after Philip William Otterbein.
On a national level, in 1946, the United Brethren in Christ Church united with the Evangelical Association to form the Evangelical United Brethren (E.U.B.) Church, and, in 1968, the E.U.B. Church united with the Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church.
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 Evangelical United Brethren   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Evangelical United Brethren Church was formed in November 1946 through the merging of the former Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church.
Through differences of opinion about the constitution of the church, a small faction left the denomination in May 1885 to form the Church of the United Brethren (Old Constitution), which continued as a small denomination to the 1950s.
The Evangelical United Brethren Church in the United States merged with the Methodist Church in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church.
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 Evangelical United Brethren Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Evangelical Church was begun by the evangelical, pietistic efforts of Jacob Albright, a Lutheran convert to Methodism, who preached among his fellow Pennsylvania Germans.
The United Brethren in Christ came into being as a result of the evangelistic preaching of Philip William Otterbein of the German Reformed Church and Martin Boehm, a Mennonite bishop.
The societies formed under Otterbein and Boehm took shape as a distinct ecclesiastical body, to be known as the United Brethren in Christ, at a conference in 1800, at which the two ministers were elected bishops.
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 McDonough County, Illinois, United Brethren in Christ Church
United Brethren in Christ is the title of the church which, in the latter part of the last century, grew out of the religious awakening of Philip William Otterbein and a number of his friends.
For the purpose of uniting and establishing the believers in the new life a conference of the ministers was held in 1789, at Baltimore.
The law of the church forbids the sale or use of intoxicating liquors by its members; and the renting of property to liquor dealers, or signing a petition favoring them, is considered immoral.
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 Religious Movements Homepage: United Methodist Church
Founders: Although the United Methodist Church is actually the current result of several schisms and mergers within and among different churches, the United Methodist Church considers its founder to be John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement.
However, the church that we know today as the United Methodist Church was not founded until April 23, 1968 in Dallas, Texas as a result of the unification of The Methodist Church and The Evangelical United Brethren Church.
Though the United Methodist Church is a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, not all of the members of the Methodist faith believe abortion to be morally right, and the issue has caused some argument among UMC members.
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 Mount Olivet United Brethren Church - AboutUs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Martin Luther taught that Christ was physically present in the bread and wine served during communion (the Lord's Supper).
In a connectional church, ordained ministers are expected to be available for a fulltime assignment, and congregations are expect to accept the minister assigned to them by the denomination.
The United Brethren church fosters the ethic of love in our family relationships, extends that ethic to all other persons, and adheres to that ethic in pursuing national peace.
www.forministry.com /USVANONDEMOUBC/AboutUs.dsp   (3288 words)

  
 STH | Library | Guides | Methodist History
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ was organized in 1800 officially, though conferences had been held as early as 1774.
One group of churches not satisfied with this merger intended to remain as the United Evangelical Church but were forced in 1928 to re-name themselves the Evangelical Congregational Church.
In 1946, the Evangelical Church merged with theChurch of the United Brethren in Christ to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
www.bu.edu /sth/library/guides/methodism-history.html   (1378 words)

  
 United Brethren in Christ --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Evangelical Christian denomination founded in U.S. under leadership of Philip William Otterbein (1726–1813) of German Reformed church and Martin Boehm (1725–1812), a Mennonite; in 1946 united with Evangelical church to become the Evangelical United Brethren church; in 1968 merged with Methodists to form United Methodist church.
Known for many years as River Brethren, the church was not officially organized under the name Brethren in Christ until 1863, when the drafting of young men into...
Protestant church formed in 1946 by the merger of the Evangelical Church and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
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 Old Otterbein UMC
Old Otterbein Church is the mother church of the United Brethren in Christ and the oldest church edifice still standing in the city of Baltimore.
In 1771, a German Evangelical Reformed Church was organized and a temporary chapel erected to house the congregation.
The church is on the corner of Sharp and Conway Streets in Baltimore, two blocks from Harborplace, next to the Baltimore Convention Center and across the street (Interstate 395) from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
www.gcah.org /Heritage_Landmarks/Otterbein.htm   (767 words)

  
 Welcome to the United Brethren in Christ Church
The United Brethren Church does not have work in the areas affected.
Archie Cameron, a United Brethren pioneer in Honduras, passed away on September 29 at age 87.
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ, USA, consists of about 215 churches and other ministries throughout the United States.
www.ub.org   (189 words)

  
 Otterbein Who? Old Otterbein Church
Three years after his ordination into the ministry of the German Reformed church in 1749, Otterbein immigrated to the U.S. Settling in Lancaster, PA, he began his successful evangelization in the area of present-day Pennsylvania and Maryland and introduced class meetings, open-air meetings, and prayer meetings to his congregations.
Otterbein assumed the pastorate of the Evangelical Reformed church in Baltimore in 1774, a position he held for almost 40 years.
In 1800, at the first annual conference of the United Brethren in Christ, he and Boehm were elected bishops.
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 Evangelical United Brethren Church --  Encyclopædia Britannica
church established June 10, 1925, in Toronto, Ont., by the union of the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of Canada.
The three churches were each the result of mergers that had taken place within each denomination in Canada in the 19th and early 20th century.
In 1968 the Canada Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged with the United...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9033326   (835 words)

  
 The Spirit of Amistad in The United Methodist Church by Darrell Reeck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Back in the United States, the German-speaking Christians of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ were planning a missionary enterprise.
Finally--as a result of denominational mergers in 1946 (joining the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church) and 1968 (uniting the Evangelical United Brethren Church and The Methodist Church)--the mission in Sierra Leone emerged as the Sierra Leone Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church.
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR), part of the General Board of Global Ministries, has brought official disaster relief to the citizens of Sierra Leone, complementing the efforts of individual Christians and congregations.
gbgm-umc.org /umhistory/sierra-leone/amistad.html   (1027 words)

  
 The Confession of Faith of the Evangelical United Brethren Church
The Evangelical United Brethren Church was formed in 1946 by the merger of The Church of the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical Church.
The offering Christ freely made on the cross is the perfect and sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the whole world, redeeming man from all sin, so that no other satisfaction is required.
It is essential to the permanence and growth of the Christian Church, and important to the welfare of the civil community.
www.cresourcei.org /creedeub.html   (1534 words)

  
 Church History | General Conference 2000 - The United Methodist Church
The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 with the union of the former Evangelical United Brethren Church and The Methodist Church.
The Evangelical United Brethren Church, established in 1946, represented the union of two U.S.-born denominations: the Evangelical Church and the Church of the United Brethren in Christ.
Legal separation within the church was ended in 1968 with the merger of the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches.
www.gc2000.org /about/history.htm   (390 words)

  
 Brethren Groups
Moravians, Moravian Brethren, Unitas Fratrum or Unity of Brethren
United Brethren leader Martin Boehm was the spiritual leader of this group until its congregation, principally of Mennonite background, began to withdraw from him because of his liberal views on baptism, and his relationships with non-Mennonite individuals.
Birthed from the larger Mennonite Church in 1860 through a process of spiritual revival with a desire for closer fellowship, this group incorporated the title Brethren simply because of their spiritual kinship which was a outcome of meeting in small household groups for prayer and Bible study.
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 McDonough County, Illinois, United Brethren in Christ Church, Hire Township   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This society erected a fine church edifice, 26x36 feet in ground area, on the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 15, during the summer of 1867.
The church was quite thriving and prosperous, and at one time had a membership of about 70, although at present the membership numbers only about 20,--some sleeping the sleep that knows no wakening, while others have gone to the land of the setting sun.
The church has had a number of pastors since, but is without an expounder of biblical doctrine at present.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As a part of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Pleasant Valley U.B. Church adheres to the United Brethren Church's historic Confession of Faith, which was written in 1815.
Members of the United Brethren Church may not hold membership in other churches or organizations that teach a way of salvation incompatible with the United Brethren Confession of Faith; specifically, members are prohibited from holding membership in secret societies such as Masonic lodges.
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is diverse, and while this can make discussion and debate quite lively at times, we believe that we must work out or set aside our differences when it comes to advancing the Great Commission and being salt and light in the world.
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 The Orgegonia United Brethren In Christ Church
One such facility was the Oregonia United Brethren in Christ Church, originally named, in 1873, the Unity Chapel.
The church bell was purchased from C.S. Bell of Hillsboro, Ohio, at a cost of $46.07.
Church members solicited funds, in 1881, to purchase an organ for the church.
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 Evangelical United Brethren Church
Evangelical United Brethren Church, Protestant denomination created (1946) by the union of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ.
The Evangelical Church was begun by the evangelical, pietistic efforts of Jacob
United Methodist Church - United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the...
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