The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) believes that it is in the local congregations where people come, find, and know God as they gather in Christ's name.

In the meantime Holdheim had received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Leipzig, and had come to be looked upon by congregations as well as by Jewish scholars as a leader ( see Orient.

Those that did were from congregations west of the Appalachian Mountains that had come into contact with the Stone movement.

Several church households will usually come together to form congregations for public worship along with members of the public who wish to attend.

After these, in the fourth century, come the hermits and monks, followed in the eleventh century by the canons regular, in the thirteenth century by the mendicant orders, in the sixteenth by the clerks regular, and lastly by the members of religious congregations.

The Presbyterian Church in Canada has also had an international presence ; besides congregations in Newfoundland before that province's entry into Canadian Confederation in 1949, St Andrew's in Hamilton, Bermuda was affiliated with the Maritime churches from 1842 to 1963, when its presbyterial oversight was transferred to the West Toronto Presbytery, and many congregations have people from many other nations and cultures that have come to Canada.

Created by activist Carolyn McDade and UU leader Lucile Schuck Longview " as a way for women who lived far apart to connect the work each was doing locally to the whole ", it has come to be used as an ingathering / homecoming ritual for UU congregations.

The inner life of congregations will prosper so long as like-minded people of similar social and economic level can fraternize together ; ;

In modern times, Zion is still an ideal, though Mormons gather together in their individual congregations rather than a central geographic location.

A presbytery is formed by all the congregations and the Ministers of Word and Sacrament in a geographic area together with elders selected ( proportional to congregation size ) from each of the congregations.

Participants segregate by gender to separate rooms to conduct this ritual, although some congregations allow married couples to perform the ordinance on each other and families are often encouraged to participate together.

The missionaries had to be many-sided, now preaching to the Malays, now to the Chinese, now to the English population ; now setting up types, now teaching in the schools ; now evangelizing new districts and neighboring islands, now gathering together their little congregations at their own settlement.

Four of the villages have interfaith centers, common worship facilities which are owned and jointly operated by a variety of religious congregations working together.

This was a combination of two enthusiastic, dynamic congregations determined to work together in the Lord ’ s service.

In fact, in this period, other institutions and congregations were born, which, together with the constitution of various schools, made Anagni an important centre of study thanks to its long cultural tradition.

Much of the practical work of the LCMS structure is as a free employment brokerage to bring the two together ; it also allows the congregations to work together on projects far too large for even a local consortium of congregations to accomplish, such as foreign mission work.

In 1693, Jakob Ammann, " together with the ministers and elders ," sent a general letter to people within the Swiss Brethren congregations, asking for a meeting in which he wanted clarification about where they stood on three issues: 1 ) Shunning those who had been banned, 2 ) whether liars should be excommunicated, and 3 ) if people could be saved who did not follow God's word.

Following the American Civil War, African Americans in the South gathered together in communities to evade white control, established their own church congregations, and worked hard to gain education.

Many of the former UCC congregations banded together as the new Congregational Christian Churches in Canada.

The Uniting Church in Australia ( UCA ) was formed on 22 June 1977 when many congregations of the Methodist Church of Australasia, the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia came together under the Basis of Union.

In 2003 two bishops and a few clergy left the FCE, because of their objection to the FCE's increasing openness to engagement with other denominations, and came together as a small group of congregations calling themselves the Evangelical Connexion of the Free Church of England.

" In that retired valley beside the flowing brook the secret rites and mysteries of the true Rosicrucian Philosophy flourished unmolested for years, until the state of affairs brought about by the American Revolution, together with pernicious Sunday legislation which also discriminated against the keepers of the scriptural Sabbath day, gradually caused the incoming generation to assimilate with the secular congregations.

In Conservative and Progressive congregations, men and women dance together.

In a practice not accepted in over 98 % percent of Orthodox congregations women receive these aliyot in single-gender tefillah groups ( prayer groups consisting only of women, who pray together, excluding those prayers that require a minyan ( quorum of men )), and only men are called to the Torah in front of the whole congregation.

Traditions within the Apostolic Christian Church help encourage believers in their commitment to serving the Lord, help to knit generations together, and provide close harmony among the various congregations.

By 1768 Allen, together with John Barnard and William Cudworth from London, helped establish congregations in York, Norfolk, Colne, Wethersfield, Liverpool, Whitehaven, Trowbridge and Nottingham.

* Requires that all pastors and their congregations work together with other pastors and congregations in groups of 5-10 churches called " clusters.

The movement now has some 50 congregations in Israel, with a membership of approximately 50, 000, and its programs reach some 125, 000 each year.

Rather, the independent congregations are a network with each congregation participating at its own discretion in various means of service and fellowship with other congregations ( see Sponsoring church ( Churches of Christ )).

Today, The United Methodist Church in Eurasia has 116 congregations, each with a native pastor.

These are composed of teaching elders and ruling elders from each of the constituent congregations.

As of February 2011, congregations in the United States totaled 1, 018, and 1, 046 when including two congregations in the U. S. Virgin Islands, 19 in Canada, six in other countries, plus 28 multi-denominational congregations affiliated with the UUA: 17 in Mass., four in Ill., three in N. H., two in Vt., and one each in Me.

Beginning in 1894, Christian ministers under the direction of Charles Taze Russell were appointed to travel to and work with local Bible Students congregations for a few days at a time ; within a few years appointments were extended internationally, formally designated as " pilgrims ", and scheduled for twice-yearly, week-long visits at each local congregation.

This came about due to the history of the Kirk ( Church of Scotland ) which saw a multitude of factions and congregations organise, each with varying forms of worship and constitutional arrangements, which subsequently re-integrated.

There are four Churches meeting in the village, Church of England, Methodist, & Baptist congregations meet each week in their respective buildings.

The autonomy of each House does not prevent them being affiliated into congregations – whether national or based on some other joint characteristic – and these, in turn, into the supra-national Benedictine Confederation.

Each province is governed by a Prior Provincial, each commissariat by a Commissary General, each of the two congregations by a Vicar General, and every monastery by a Prior ( only the Czech monastery of Alt-Brunn in Moravia is under an abbot ) and every college by a Rector.

From the perspective of the present day, the first three sub-groups look in retrospect like separate branches, each with its own traditions, though some degree of merger is taking place as Spanish and Portuguese congregations increasingly include Jews of other backgrounds.

In the United States, denominational contact with local assemblies or local church home small group meetings, i. e., cell churches, is facilitated by district superintendents, each of which is responsible for a large number of churches in a geographical region ( such as Florida or the Northeast ) or in a specialized language group ( such as Spanish-speaking congregations ).

The districts are subdivided into circuits, each of which is led by a circuit counselor, who is an ordained pastor from one of the member congregations.

Each municipality is further divided into one or more parishes which each contain one or more congregations.

An annual yeartext, or " theme scripture ", which is the same for all congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, is prominently displayed in each Kingdom Hall.

For many years Church of the Nazarene congregations had worship services ( each lasting about an hour ) three times a week: Sunday morning, Sunday evening, and Wednesday evening.

A Service Department in each branch corresponds with congregations and supervises the work of traveling overseers.

In 1995, Witnesses reported that 4374 district and circuit overseers cared for 78, 620 congregations, an average of about 18 congregations each.