By H. B. Cavalcanti
Whereas congregational reviews have increased our knowing of yank faith, little is understood in regards to the neighborhood practices of a unmarried denomination at its smallest jurisdiction. This publication explores how nationwide denominational commitments are affecting the practices of neighborhood United Church of Christ congregations inside of a unmarried organization within the Shenandoah Valley. Nationally, the UCC defines itself as a united and uniting church in its ecumenical paintings; as multiracial and multicultural in its variety; as obtainable to all in welcoming people with disabilities; as open and asserting for its LGBT participants; and as a simply peace church in its help of social justice. So, how totally have neighborhood congregations embraced those commitments? may congregations be extra connected to their older identities, relatively in parts the place the church's predecessors have been strongly rooted? Or are the nationwide church's commitments being lived out on the grassroots point? The ebook measures congregational lifestyles in a single of the UCC's oldest and smallest institutions. Books on congregational stories both concentrate on a case examine of a selected congregation, or large-scale surveys of U.S. congregations that discover combination information to provide an explanation for their paintings. This publication seems as an alternative at a gaggle of neighborhood congregations within a small judicatory (the Shenandoah organization) of the United Church of Christ to provide an explanation for non secular lifestyles on the grassroots point
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The United Church of Christ in the Shenandoah Valley : liberal church, traditional congregations
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Homecomings are also important liturgical events. Many churches have communion, baptisms, and confirmations during the occasion. The grandson of one of the sisters was baptized that morning, as the elder family members gathered with parents and baby around the altar. 1). A good number were founded prior to the nation’s independence. Many witnessed military battles during the Civil War. Only four out of the twenty-nine congregations were founded after the 1957 merger that created the United Church of Christ.
After the Quakers left the area, Moravian Brethren moving from Pennsylvania to North Carolina renamed the church in 1753. In 1845, a stone sanctuary replaced the old log house. The site served, in turn, as home for multiple congregations, including the United Brethren in Christ, the German Baptists, the Smith Creek Congregational Church, and the New Bethlehem Christian Congregation. During the Civil War, the stone sanctuary served as a hospital and was severely damaged by military action. Upgraded in the 1940s, the structure gained hardwood floors, stained glass windows, and a chancel area also used for Sunday school.
Mitchell, “Town and Country in Backcountry Virginia,” The Journal of Southern History 59, no. 4 (1993): 620. 18. Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape (Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places; Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2003). 19. Longenecker, Shenandoah Religion, 31–32. 20. What Timothy Anderson says of Pennsylvania Germans in Central Ohio could very easily be said of settlers in the Shenandoah Valley: “Third, a Reformed and Anabaptist religious background and tradition united the Pennsylvania Germans.