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| In
1924, a group of parents began to meet informally before worship. They
organized and called themselves the Friendly Bible Class. In later years,
Mr. Al Jorgensen became president of the group and remained in that
position for 50 years until his death in 1985. Mr. Jorgensen was a
blacksmith who created ironwork for the former University Club and also
for the church parsonage. |
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| The Congregational
Christian Churches were a Protestant Christian denomination that
operated in the US from 1931 through 1957. On the latter date, most of its
churches joined the Evangelical and Reformed Church in a merger to become
the United Church of Christ. During the fore mentioned period, its
churches were organized nationally into a General Council, with parallel
state conferences, sectional associations, and missionary
instrumentalities.
The body came into being in Seattle, Washington in 1931 by the merger of two American bodies that practiced congregational church governance, the General Council of Congregational Churches and the General Convention of the Christian Church. Initially using the word "and" between the words "Congregational" and "Christian," the new denomination decided to combine the predecessor churches' identities into one nationally, while its constituent churches remained free to retain their original names or adopted the new usage.
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