User:RayneVanDunem/Unity Fellowship Church Movement
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- Unity Fellowship Church Movement (UFCM) is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California Los Angeles, California] based [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/Protestant Protestant] Christian denomination. It was founded in 1982 as Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles by Reverend (now Archbishop) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/Carl_Bean Carl Bean] as a liberal mainline church that is explicitly welcoming of [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/LGBT LGBT] African Americans. The church received non-profit status from the state government of California in 1985, and the UFCM was founded in 1990 as a full-fledged [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki/Non-profit_organization non-profit organization] for the establishment and governance of more churches.
Affiliates
Today, the UFCM counts 17 affiliated churches:
- Jurisdiction 1
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church (the mother church) - Los Angeles
- Unity Fellowship Church, Long Beach
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, Riverside
- Unity Fellowship Church, San Diego
- Jurisdiction 2
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, New York City
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, Buffalo
- Unity Fellowship Church (Rochester, NY)
- Unity Fellowship Church, Detroit
- Jurisdiction 3
- Liberaton in Truth Unity Fellowship Church (Newark, NJ)
- Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)
- Unity Fellowship Church Philadelphia
- Unity Fellowship Church Baltimore
- Unity Fellowship Church Columbia,MD
- Jurisdiction 4
- Unity Fellowship Church Charlotte
- Unity Fellowship Church of Washington, D.C.
- Unity Fellowship Church Charleston, SC
- Unity Fellowship Church Atlanta
References
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External links
- [http://www.unityfellowshipchurch.org/site2009/]