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A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes. Sunday school classes usually precede a Sunday church service and are used to provide catechesis to Christians, especially children and teenagers, and sometimes adults as well. Churches of many Christian denominations have ...
Henrietta Cornelia Mears (October 23, 1890 – March 19, 1963) was a Christian educator, evangelist, and author who had a significant impact on evangelical Christianity in the 20th century and one of the founders of the National Sunday School Association [1] Best known as the innovative and dynamic Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California and in ...
The Akron Plan was a scheme for the design of churches and other religious buildings that housed Sunday schools. It was characterized by a set of wedge-shaped classrooms that radiated from the direction of a central superintendent's platform. Doors or movable partitions could be closed to separate the classes, or opened to allow the entire body ...
The Hermitage Church of Christ closed in 2018 and sold its building for $1.65 million in 2019 to the Mount Gilead Missionary Baptist Church, according to property records.
Lifeway Christian Resources, based in Nashville, Tennessee, is the Christian media publishing and distribution division of the Southern Baptist Convention and provider of church business services. Until the end of its physical retail presence in 2019 [ 1] it was best known for its brick and mortar LifeWay Christian Stores, one of the two major ...
The Church of God in Christ ( COGIC) is an international Holiness – Pentecostal Christian denomination, [ 2][ 4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [ 5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Alma mater. Brigham Young University. Spouse (s) Lolly Osguthorpe. Children. 5. Russell Trent Osguthorpe (born December 4, 1946) is an American professor of education and was the 20th general president of the Sunday School of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 2009 to 2014.
The Church Growth movement began with the publication of Donald McGavran's book The Bridges of God.McGavran was a third-generation Christian missionary to India, where his observations of how churches grow went beyond typical theological discussion to discern sociological factors that affected receptivity to the Christian Gospel among non-Christian peoples.