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Who Are the Disciples?
- We were the first Protestant movement
founded on American soil in the early 1800s
- Our founding ideals still influence
today's congregations: informality, openness, and diversity
- Communion is open to all Christians and
is celebrated weekly. The chalice with St. Andrew's cross signifies
that communion is central to us.
- Membership is granted after a simple
statement of belief in Jesus Christ and baptism by immersion, or by transfer
of membership
- Each congregation sets its own programs
and budgets, owns its own property, and calls its own pastors
- Our membership numbers more than
900,000 throughout the United States and Canada
To learn more about the history,
structure, and tenets of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) at the
national/international level, visit www.disciples.org,
or www.ccinoh.org
for the regional perspective.
To subscribe to DisciplesWorld magazine, click
on the link below. Some topics covered in 2007 will be Evangelicals in
America, Church and State, Health and Healing, Children's Issues, Poverty in
America, and much more.
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About the Disciples
