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	Reformed Church in America — Infoplease.com
		Until the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, the Reformed Church was the established church of the colony.
		The church embraces many of the historic colonial churches of New York and New Jersey, the denominational stronghold; fresh immigration from the Netherlands in the mid-19th cent.
		Reformed churches - Reformed churches Reformed churches, in a general sense, all Protestant churches that claim a...
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	Reformed Church In America - LoveToKnow 1911
		REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA, until 1867 called officially "The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in North America," and still popularly called the Dutch Reformed Church, an American Calvinist church, originating with the settlers from Holland in New York, New Jersey and Delaware, the first permanent settlers of the Reformed faith in the New World.
		The Dutch strongly opposed the establishment of the Church of England, and contributed largely toward the adoption (in October 1683) of the Charter of Liberties which confirmed in their privileges all churches then "in practice" in the city of New York and elsewhere in the province, but which was repealed by James II.
		Union with other Reformed churches was planned in 1743, in 1784, in 1816-20, 1873-78 and 1886, but unsuccessfully; however, ministers go from one to another charge in the Dutch and German Reformed, Presbyterian, and to a less degree Congregational churches.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Reformed_Church_In_America (874 words)

	Reformed Church in America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a Calvinist Reformed Protestant denomination that was formerly known as the Dutch Reformed Church.
		The church embraced many of the historic colonial churches of New York and New Jersey, the denominational stronghold; fresh immigration from the Netherlands in the mid-19th century led to the development of the church in the Midwest.
		Hansen, The Reformed Church in the Netherlands, 1340–1840 (1884)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reformed_Church_in_America (726 words)

	Reformed Church in America - Encyclopedia.com
		Reformed Church in America Protestant denomination founded in colonial times by settlers from the Netherlands and formerly known as the Dutch Reformed Church.
		The Reformed Church in Holland emerged in the 16th cent., after Calvinism gained influence in the northern provinces of the Netherlands.
		Until the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, the Reformed Church was the established church of the colony.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-RefChAm.html (970 words)

	Christian Reformed Church in North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Christian Reformed Church split from the Reformed Church in America in a theological dispute that originated in the Netherlands.
		As a result of this decision, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church broke fraternal relations with the CRC in 1997.
		The membership of the CRC in the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council, the single largest gathering of conservative Reformed denominations in the United States, was suspended in 1999 and terminated in 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christian_Reformed_Church (627 words)

	Reformed Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Reformed Church in America shares the principal doctrines of other reformed churches: the Bible is the Word of God and sole authority for Christian belief, Jesus is the incarnate Son of God, double predestination, justification by grace through faith, and the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper.
		The Reformed Church in America came into being as a result of the arrival of Dutch settlers in the United States in the 17th century.
		The logo of the Dutch Reformed Church in America consists of a red and white shield with pillars on either side.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/christ/cep/rca.html (314 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Reformed Churches
		In policy, the Church is Presbyterian; the constitution recognizes four kinds of officers: ministers of the word, professors of theology, elders, and deacons.
		Reformed churches, with an approximate membership of 10,000 souls, existed in the country; they were all situated in
		America in 1752; the supply of clergymen, however, was insufficient for many years and resulted in some defections.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12710a.htm (1225 words)

	Reformed Churches
		The Reformed Church in America is a Protestant denomination with roots in Dutch Calvinism.
		The Reformed churches in the first - named areas were very active in producing the early confessions of faith and catechisms still held as doctrinal standards in many of the churches.
		The Presbyterian church in Scotland, the Church of Scotland, which had originally used the Scots Confession (1560) and the Genevan Catechism, adopted the Westminister standards in 1647, after the English Parliament, dominated by the Independents, had refused to agree to their becoming the standards of the Church of England.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/reformed.htm (2313 words)

	Reformed-Presybterian Family Churches
		The International Council of Community Churches was formally organized in 1946, but possesses a history dating from the early nineteenth century when nonsectarian community churches began to appear as an alternative to the formation of separate denominationally affiliated congregations.
		The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) was formed in 1983 by the union of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America and the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
		The Presbyterian Church in America adheres to the traditional Presbyterian documents, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and both the Longer and Shorter Westminster Catechisms.
	jmahoney.com /reformed-preschurches.htm (753 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Christian Reformed Church in America
		History: Many members of the Christian Reformed Church in the Netherlands (a group founded after members seceded from the Reformed Church of the Netherlands) immigrated to the United States in 1847 after enduring severe famine and religious persecution in their native country (Melton, 302).
		Most churches were content with their union to the RCA, though a single Classis Holland church did leave the denomination in 1857 under the direction of Gysbert Haan.
		The church practices a theology based upon the ideas of John Calvin, Ulrich Zwingli, and other leaders of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland (this being a sister movement to the German Reformation of which Martin Luther was the primary leader) (Lippy and Williams, 511).
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/ChReform.html (1517 words)

	About The Presbyterian Church in America
		The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) contributes to the ethos of the Atlanta community by teaching and encouraging its members to integrate life and faith.
		Mission to North America assists presbyteries and local congregations in their church-planting efforts through vision communication, strategic planning, and the recruitment, assessment, and training of church planters.
		Other areas of service include assisting church pulpit committees and pastors in their search for churches and overseeing corporate civil matters, the PCA Historical Center in St. Louis, and the management and operation of the Atlanta headquarters.
	www.pcanet.org /general/aboutPCA.htm (776 words)

	Presbyterian Church in America
		Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) seeks to communicate the gospel by sending ordained PCA ministers to serve on the college campus, to equip students to live all of life under the Lordship of Christ.
		Mission to North America serves PCA churches and presbyteries by defining church planting vision and strategy; providing services to equip church planters; and coordinating church revitalization, chaplain ministries, and mercy ministries.
		Presbyterian Church in America Foundation, Inc. is a ministry to assist individual Christians to find and implement God’s plan of stewardship for their estates.
	www.pcanet.org (269 words)

	Reformed Church in America Looks to Past and Future -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		But especially in recent years, the RCA has been branching out and reconfiguring itself to meet the challenges of a modern, technology-based world without abandoning the biblical imperatives that date to the founding of the denomination in New York nearly 400 years ago.
		A postmodern church such as The River uses a combination of ancient prayer and liturgies with modern technologies to touch the hearts and minds of a generation raised on fast-paced imagery and yet longing for balance and peace, organizers of the new congregation say.
		It has stripped church down to the core: It is all about relationships, the one-on-one interactions that take place in house churches, at parties, around campfires, over the phone or in other everyday circumstances.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/152/story_15224_1.html (875 words)

	U R C information
		The United Reformed Churches in North America is a new federation of churches formed on October 1, 1996, at a synod meeting held in Lynwood, Illinois, succeeding an organization known as the Fellowship of Uniting Reformed Churches in North America which had been formed in 1995.
		According to a recommendation of the Church Order committee it was decided "That the United Reformed Churches in North America adopt the liturgical forms printed in the Psalter Hymnal, Centennial Edition (1976) for use among the churches," and by an amendment "the Form of Subscription" was included in the decision.
		To become part of a federation of churches that stands in the historical line of the Reformed tradition, is invigorating and refreshing, It gives new impetus to the preaching, renewed interest in studying the Word and Confessions, and a sense of solidarity with those who have traveled the same course.
	www.iserv.net /~bethany/URC.htm (1574 words)

	Covenant United Reformed Church - Kalamazoo, Michigan - United Reformed Churches
		Covenant United Reformed Church is a member church of the United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA).
		The URCNA is a young denomination that came into existence in November 1995, and in November 2005 was received as a member of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council.
		Our beliefs are summarized in the Ecumenical Creeds, shared by all churches worthy of the name Christian, and by the Three Forms of Unity, three confessions widely used by Reformed churches with roots in the Netherlands.
	www.covenant-urc.org /urchrchs.html (697 words)

	Reformed Church
		The Reformed Church in America was established on this continent 150 years before the Revolutionary War.
		Calvin's reformation at Geneva spread to many countries, including Scotland (where it became the Presbyterian Church) and the Netherlands (where it became the RCA's predecessor, the Dutch Reformed Church).
		Therefore the RCA believes, in principle, that abortion ought not to be practiced at all.
	www.accsd.org /Reformed.html (997 words)

	Free Hungarian Reformed Church at ForMinistry.com - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		At this time, the congregation split in two, because one faction went under the jurisdiction of the then Reformed Church of America, with the aim in mind that their pastors and church would be financially supported by the Mission Board of the Reformed Church of America.
		The second faction confessed that the church must, or ought to, live from the mercy of God and from the faith and sacrifices of the church’s members, and that they would not give up their freedom of conscience and their ancestral faith for anything.
		This latter faction, the founders of our church, did not want to accept the faith and doctrines of others, but rather wanted to build a church founded on their own beliefs and, by this means, enrich this blessed land of ours.
	fm2.forministry.com /Church/Home.asp?SiteId=15132FHRC (425 words)

	Welcome: About the Collegiate Church Corporation
		As one church became crowded, a larger church was built to replace the old; as new areas of the colony became settled, churches were built to serve the new communities.
		In 1839, a second Middle Church was built on Lafayette Place, as the churches continued to move uptown with the population.
		The Collegiate Church operates under a charter granted in 1696 by King William III of England, acting upon a petition for religious freedom presented by the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York (formerly New Amsterdam).
	www.collegiatechurch.org /collegiate.html (790 words)

	Christian Reformed Church - Theopedia
		The Christian Reformed Church split from the Reformed Church in America in a theological dispute that originated in the Netherlands.
		As a result of this decision, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church broke fraternal relations with the CRC in 1997.
		The membership of the CRC in the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council, the single largest gathering of conservative Reformed denominations in the United States, was suspended in 1999 and terminated in 2001.
	www.theopedia.com /Christian_Reformed_Church (517 words)

	Full Communion Partner: The Reformed Church in America
		As churches of the Reformation, the ELCA, Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ, and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), signed an ecumenical proposal of historic importance in 1997.
		The agreement declared these four churches together in full communion on the basis of a common calling, a desire to bear visible witness to the unity of the church, and a need to engage together in God’s mission.
		Among other things, the agreement means that the four churches fully accept each other as rightly preaching the Gospel, encourage the mutual sharing of the Lord’s Supper among members, recognize each other’s ordained ministers and ministries, and commit themselves to the ongoing process of further understanding in a common expression of evangelism, witness, and service.
	www.elca.org /ecumenical/fullcommunion/reformed/index.html (263 words)

	Hope Reformed Church, RCA
		The history of Hope Reformed Church began August 24, 1892, when twenty-four people petitioned the Pleasant Prairie Classis to be organized as a congregation of the Reformed Church in America.
		In the eighty-eight years of her history, the original church building constructed in 1894 underwent several major remodeling projects; and the parsonage was remodeled and then enlarged, and in 1954 a completely new house was constructed.
		The Reformed Church was no strange denomination to these people, but a continuation of the religious heritage they knew in Germany.
	www.hopereformedchurch.org /history.cfm (223 words)

	Church of the Chimes - Reformed Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Church of the Chimes - Reformed Church in America
		The Reformed Church in America, which includes some of the best-known congregations in North America, was established on this continent 150 years before the Revolutionary War.
		The word Reformed comes from the Protestant Reformation which swept across Europe in the 1500s under the leadership of such men as Martin Luther and John Calvin.
	www.cotconline.org /aboutus/rca.htm (252 words)

	Reformed Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		It is important for the church to be involved in the questions raised by genetic technologies not only to serve church members who are faced with the questions brought about by genetic technologies but also to be a part of a dialogue about the ethical issues.
		To encourage RCA congregations to identify genetic counselors and other resource people in their communities who can help church members with education, guidance, and support con-cerning the issues of genetic testing and screening.
		To encourage RCA seminaries to include in their curricula opportunities for study and discussion of the ethical issues raised by new genetic technologies.
	www.electronicchurch.org /Genetics/reformed_church_in_america.htm (4476 words)

	True Brothers: The Netherlandic Origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, 1857-1880
		This church had a history of factiousness and strife, which was caused by a spirit of clannishness already rife in the old country that pitted people from the western Staphorst region against those from the eastern area of Emmen and Sleen.
		Vanden Bosch declared to Classis that the RCA was not a "true church of Jesus Christ" because of the "abominable and church-destroying heresy and sins which are rampant" in it.
		The declaration of secession by the consistory of this church simply stated that "we have betaken ourselves to the standpoint we had when we left the Netherlands, in order thus again to be in connection with the church of the Netherlands." Polkton clearly considered their action a return to the 1834 church.
	www.swierenga.com /Kampen_pap.html (6696 words)

	Ferry Memorial Reformed Church // Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Reformed Church in America, which includes some of the best-known congregations in North America, was established on this continent 150 years before the Revolutionary War.
		Calvin's reformation at Geneva spread to many countries, including Scotland (where it became the Presbyterian Church) and the Netherlands (where it became our ancestor, the Dutch Reformed Church).
		To belong to a Reformed church is to be part of a warm and caring Christian family.
	www.churches.rca.org /ferry (435 words)

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