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Marvin D. Williams
1935to2024
Marvin D. Williams Jr. was the Director of the Library and Archivist of the Disciples of Christ Historical Society (DCHS) from 1967 to 1976. Williams supervised the Black Materials Project at DCHS around 1970 and indexed multiple Disciples periodicals. Marvin...
Groups
Disciples Abbreviations
Current
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)...
Churches
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Durant, Oklahoma
1900-Current
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Durant, Oklahoma, is a long-established Protestant congregation affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Founded in 1900 during the final years of Indian Territory, the church emerged from extensive missionary activity among the...
Churches
First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Granbury Texas
1873-Current
The congregation of First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Granbury, Texas, was recorded as being started on May 7, 1873, by Addison and Randolph Clark as they were building AddRan College in Thorp Spring, Texas, later known as Texas...
Churches
Ridglea Christian Church
1955-Current
Ridglea Christian Church is a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation in Fort Worth, Texas, that was founded in 1955. Members interviewed for this article described it as a “warm, family feeling” to be involved in this church. This congregation...
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Jane Corneigle Campbell
1763to1835
Jane Corneigle Campbell (1763–1835) was the wife of Thomas Campbell and the mother of Alexander Campbell. Jane was born in 1763 to Presbyterian parents. Jane’s parents lived in County Antrim, Ireland, having descended from French Huguenots who fled to the...
Ministries
Ekklesia Global (Spartanburg County, South Carolina)
2019-Current
Ekklesia Global is a nonprofit ministry founded on Easter Sunday, 2019, in Spartanburg, South Carolina, by Rev. Michelle King Beech, a lifelong member (“cradle Disciple”) of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Rooted in the values of the Stone-Campbell Movement,...
Institution
Missions Building
1907-1996
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Missions Building began as a centennial project of the Christian Woman’s Board of Missions (CWBM). In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Thomas Campbell’s Declaration and Address, CWBM leaders envisioned the construction of a...
Katherine “Sister Katie” Blackburn
1924
Katherine “Sister Katie” Blackburn was the only African American Disciples missionary commissioned by the Foreign Christian Missionary Society to serve in the Congo. She served as a kindergarten teacher and evangelized at the Bolenge Mission from 1907 to 1910. Little...