The Disciples world and the adjacent Stone-Campbell streams are full of abbreviations. This is an attempt to compile all abbreviations and narrow down groups and ministries that exist today from those that are historical.
AAD – Asian American Disciples (1979-1996)
ACA – Africans Claiming Africa (1992-)
ACEEA – American Christian Evangelizing and Education Association (1867-1870s)
ACMS – American Christian Missionary Society (1849-1919)
AICE – Association of Evangelical Christian Churches
BHE – Board of Higher Education (1894-1977)
BNEE – Board of Negro Evangelism and Education (1890-1900)
CAN – Church Advance Now (1980s; 1990s (CAN II))
CARE – Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe (1940s)
CCF – Christian Church Foundation (1961-)
CCT – Christian Churches Together (2001-)
CE – Christian Endeavor/Junior Christian Endeavor/Young People’s Societies (1881-)
CGMB – Common Global Ministries Board (-1996)
CIMADE – Comité Inter-Mouvements Auprès Des Évacués/ Interdenominational Committee for Assistance to Evacuees (1939-)
CMF – Christian Missionary Fellowship (1970s-)
COCU – Consultation on Church Union (1960-2002)
CRA – Christian Restoration Association (1925-)
CROP – Christian Rural Overseas Program (1947-)
CTS – Christian Theological Seminary (1924-)
CUIC – Churches Uniting in Christ (2002-)
CUIM – Christian Unity and Interfaith Ministry (Council on Christian Unity dba Christian Unity and Interfaith Ministry) (1910-)
CWBM – Christian Woman’s Board of Missions (1874-1919)
CWF – Christian Women’s Fellowship (1949-????)
DCCM – Disciples of Christ Congo Mission (1897-1964)
DCEF – Disciples Church Extension Fund (2012-)
DCEF – Board of Church Extension (1883-2012)
DCHS – Disciples of Christ Historical Society (1941-present)
DCIM – Disciples of Christ India Mission
DDH – Disciples Divinity House
DECC – Disciples Ecumenical Consultative Council (1979-)
DHE – Division of Higher Education (1977-2002)
DHM – Disciples Home Missions/Division of Homeland Ministries (1973-
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DJAN – Disciples Justice Action Network (1996-)
DOM – Division of Overseas Ministries (1973-2003) / Disciples Overseas Ministries (2023-)
DPF – Disciples Peace Fellowship (1935-)
DWM – Disciples Women’s Ministries
EES – European Evangelistic Society (1946-)
FCC – Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (1908-1950)
FCMS – Foreign Christian Missionary Society (1876-1920)
FMC – Foreign Missions Committee
FOCI – Fellowship of Concerned Individuals (1960s)
FOCUS – Fellowship of Christians in Urban Service (1988-1995)
FOR – Fellowship of Reconciliation (1914-)
GA – General Assembly (1969-)
GCI – Goldsboro Christian Institute
GCMC – General Christian Missionary Convention (1869-1895)
GEA – German Evangelical Association (1851-)
GM – Global Ministries/Disciples Overseas Ministries
HELM – Higher Education and Leadership Ministries (2002-)
ICOC – International Churches of Christ (1960s-present)
ICWF – International Christian Women’s Fellowship (1953-2006)
IDWM – International Disciples Women’s Ministries (2006-present)
JCI – Jarvis Christian Institute (College) (1912-1939)
JKMI – Jacob Kenoly Memorial Institute (Liberia)
KCBSA – Kentucky Christian Bible School Association
KCMS – Kentucky Christian Missionary Society
KCWBMC – Kentucky Christian Woman’s Board of Missions
LBS – Louisville Bible School
LCBS – Louisville Christian Bible School
LCI – Liberian Christian Institute
LTS – Lexington Theological Seminary (1965-)
NACC – North American Christian Convention (1927-2018)
NAPAD – North American Pacific/Asian Disciples (1996-)
NBA – National Benevolent Association (1887-)
NCC – National Council of Churches (1950-)
NCCC – National Convention of the Churches of Christ (1873-1917)
NCMC – National Christian Missionary Convention (1917-1968)
NNCC – National New Church Conference
OGMP – Office of the General Minister and President (1968-)
PIVM – Poona and Indian Village Mission
PSI – Piedmont School of Industry
SAEM – Spanish-American Evangelistic Ministries (1964)
SCI – Southern Christian Institute (1882-1953)
SCM – Student Christian Movement (1889-)
TCMS – Tennessee Christian Missionary Society
TMLU – Tennessee Manual Labor University
TWMS – Texas Women’s Missionary Society
UCCP – United Church of Christ in the Philippines
UCMS – United Christian Missionary Society (1920-1970)
WCC – World Council of Churches (1937-)
WCTU – Women’s Christian Temperance Union (1874-)
WCWF – World Christian Women’s Fellowship (1955-?)
WHMC – Woman’s Home Mission Convention (1982; 1917-1920s?)
Bibliography
The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement, ed. Douglas A. Foster, et al. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004)