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homeland; Dutch was used in their churches until after World War I;
foreign mission work and a widespread system of Christian schools was
begun after World War I; Calvin College and Seminary are located in
Grand Rapids, MI)
B1.2103 Church of God, General Conference (1825, John Winebrenner; Findlay,
Ohio; a reform movement among German Reformed pastors in and
around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, following the Second Great Awakening,
which sought to restore the New Testament church of true believers;
mission work is conducted in India, Bangladesh, Haiti, Brazil)
B1.2104 Hungarian Reformed Church in America (1904, Poughkeekpsie, NY;
many of the original Hungarian-speaking congregations became part of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1921; those that did not
take part in the merger formed the Free Magyar Reformed Church in
1924, and the present name was adopted in 1858)
B1.2105 Protestant Reformed Churches (1924, Grand Rapids, MI; a division of
the Christian Reformed Church)
B1.2106 United Church of Canada (1925, a union of the Methodist Church of
Canada, the Congregational Union of Canada, the General Council of the
United Churches and 70% of the Presbyterian Church of Canada; this is
currently the largest Protestant church body in Canada)
B1.2107 Reformed Church in the United States (1934, Lincoln, Nebraska)
B1.2108 Canadian and American Reformed Churches (1944, Surrey, BC,
Canada)
B1.2109 Orthodox Christian Reformed Church (1979, Grand Rapids, MI; a
division of the Christian Reformed Church in the USA and Canada)
B1.2110 Korean Christian Reformed Church (1991, Covina, CA; a division of the
Christian Reformed Church in the USA and Canada)
B1.2111 Association of Free Reformed Churches (1994, Cleveland, Ohio)
B1.2112 United Reformed Churches in North America (1996, Lansing, IL; a
division of the Christian Reformed Church)
B1.2199 Other Reformed churches
B1.22 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Overview: The Protestant Reformation took root in Scotland in the
1550s, and its main inspiration was John Knox [1505-1572] who
introduced Reformed teaching and practice; Knox and his colleagues
produced the Scottish Confession and the Book of Discipline in 1560,
and the Book of Common Order in 1564; with a strong emphasis on the
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