Evangelical Church of Maraland ( India ), Congregational Church of India ( Maraland )), and Mara Evangelical Church ( Burma )) are the three dominant Churches, a direct fruit of the pioneer missionaries who are buried at Saikao town in Saiha district of Mizoram.

* Frederick Emmanuel Hufkie Headmaster-Spandau Senior Secondary School-Theologican of the Congregational Church detained without trial in terms of the National Party security laws of 1976 and 1985

His most important works, A Treatise of Reformation without Tarying for Anie, in which he asserted the right of the church to effect necessary reforms without the authorisation of the civil magistrate ; and A Booke which sheweth the life and manners of all True Christians which set out the theory of Congregational independency, were published at Middelburg in 1582.

Most of the original funding came from a recent convert to Unitarianism, a wealthy businessman named Harm Jan Huidekoper and from the Independent Congregational Church.

A difference of principle as to the church's right to revise its officers ' decisions had been growing between them ; Ainsworth taking the more Congregational view.

Major religious groups in the Republic of the Marshall Islands include the United Church of Christ ( formerly Congregational ), with 51. 5 percent of the population ; the Assemblies of God, 24. 2 percent ; and the Roman Catholic Church, 8. 4 percent.

In religion, New England Yankees originally followed the Puritan tradition, as expressed in Congregational churches ; beginning in the late colonial period, however, many became Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, or, later, Unitarians.

In 1866, however, though never dismissed by a council from his connection with that church, he gave up the active pastorate ; still, in 1868 he was president of the American Congregational Union.

Congregational churches are sometimes called " Presbyterian " if they are governed by a council of elders ; but the difference is that every local congregation is independent, and its elders are accountable to its members, and congregationalism's wider assemblies are not ordinarily empowered to enforce discipline.

In Protestant churches from Reformed, Baptist, Congregational, and Non-denominational backgrounds, it is very common for the altar-like table to have on it only an open Bible and a pair of candlesticks ; it is not referred to as an " altar " because they do not see Communion as sacrificial in any way.

Ebenezer Gay, a renowned Congregational minister ; U. S. Postmaster General Gideon Granger ; real estate speculator Oliver Phelps, once the largest landowner in America ; composer Timothy Swan ; architect Henry A. Sykes ; sculptor Olin Levi Warner ; Seth Pease, surveyor of the Western Reserve lands in Ohio, most of which were controlled by Suffield financiers and speculators ; and Thaddeus Leavitt, inventor of an early cotton gin, merchant and patentee of the Western Reserve lands.

* First Congregational Church of Old Lyme ; 2 Ferry Road, Old Lyme, CT 06371 ; United Church of Christ

* First Congregational Church ; 308 Mile Creek Road, Old Lyme, CT 06371

Medway is home to four churches: St. Joseph Catholic Church on Village Street ; The Community Church of West Medway, which has Congregational and Baptist roots and is currently a member of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference ( CCCC ); Medway Village Church on Village Street, also a member of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference ( CCCC ); and Christ Episcopal Church on School Street.

Vermontville Academy & Museum ( erected 1844 owned by Vermontville First Congregational Church ; original First Congregational Church )

It was a Congregational institution ; its charter was unusually inclusive due to the varied religious backgrounds of its members.

It had two banks ; the Bank of Capron, and the Capron State Bank ; three general stores ; two drug stores ; a hotel ; depot ; a millinery shop ; theater ; blacksmith ; a weekly newspaper, The Capron Hustler ; a monthly newspaper, The Screech Owl ; two barber shops ; hardware store ; lumber yard ; two churches, Warburton Memorial Methodist Church, and First Congregational Church ; the Driftwood Telephone Company and Hampton's Foot Powder Factory.

After a four month dating relationship, on 2 August 1975 Stonehill married Sarah Mae Finch ( born 18 February 1953 in Los Angeles, California ), a school teacher, the sister-in-law of Stephen J. Cannell, at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, California, In a 1978 interview Stonehill explained how he met Sarah Finch.

Before the turn of the 20th century, four churches had been established — two Lutheran, one Roman Catholic, and one Congregational.

The United Church was founded in 1925 as a merger of four Protestant denominations: the Methodist Church of Canada, the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, two-thirds of the congregations of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the Association of Local Union Churches.

The UCC often uses four words to describe itself: " Christian, Reformed, Congregational and Evangelical ".

By this union four traditions came together, i. e., Anglican ( Episcopal ), Congregational, Presbyterian, and Methodist.

There existed Congregational and Wesleyan chapels and almshouses for four poor women.

Charles C. Painter ( b unknown-1895 ) was an American abolitionist, Native American advocate and Congregational minister.

Responding to the post-Civil War need to educate newly freed African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana and the surrounding region, the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Church founded Straight University on June 12, 1868.

Responding to the post-Civil War need to educate newly freed African Americans in New Orleans, Louisiana and the surrounding region, the American Missionary Association of the Congregational Church founded Straight University on June 12, 1868.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

The General Council of Congregational Christian Churches was formed from a merger between the National Council of Congregational Churches and the General Convention of the Christian Church, also known as Christian Churches or Christian Connection ( not to be confused with, although partially related to, the Disciples of Christ ).

Dr. Abbott graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, prepared for the ministry at Andover Theological Seminary, and between 1830 and 1844, when he retired from the ministry in the Congregational Church, preached successively at Worcester, Roxbury and Nantucket, all in Massachusetts.

He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1860 to 1865 and of the New England Church in New York City in 1865-1869.

New England Unitarians evolved from the Pilgrim fathers ' Congregational Christianity, which was originally based on a literal reading of the Bible.

It was around this time that she switched from attending the local Congregational church, where she had been baptised and, in which she and her family had always been active members, to the Anglican church.

Operating from the First Congregational Church, city officials and the Aldermen began taking steps to preserve order in the city.

The school grappled with many financial problems and it was at this time that help was received from the China Congregational Church and the School Committee was enlarged to accept representatives from its new friend.

Brown withdrew his membership from the Congregational church in the 1840s and never officially joined another church, but both he and his father Owen were fairly conventional evangelicals for the period with its focus on the pursuit of personal righteousness.

The dominant building in Centerbrook, from a historical standpoint, is the Congregational Church.

Bank, Opera House and Congregational Church, from a postcard sent in 1912

The Congregational Church is the second oldest church in the state still in use, with portions of the structure dating from 1754.

The Congregational Church stands on the eastern edge of the old town green on Pomfret Hill, across from the Pomfret School, founded in 1894.

The church was a Congregational Church, stemming from the Puritans.

Notably, a Village Meeting Hall was built on the west side of College Highway across from where the Congregational church still stands.

* The Dunstable Evangelical Congregational Church ( DECC ) is located at 518 Main Street, adjacent to the Town Commons and directly across from Town Hall.