Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury

Chair, Board of Administration: Rev. Jeff Miner,
Email: RevJeffMiner@MCCchurch.net
Chair, Lay Ministry Council: Bryan Parker, Email:
LMC@MCCchurch.net
Chair, Global Justice Team: Rev. Pat Bumgardner,
Email: Rvpatmccny@aol.com
Chair, Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Team: Stan
Kimer, Email: StanKimer@MCCchurch.net
Chair, MCC Theologies Team: Rev. Kharma
Amos, Email: KharmaAmos@aol.com
Global HIV / AID Ministry Program: Joshua Love,
Email: JoshuaLove@MCCchurch.net
Office of Formation and Leadership Development:
Rev. Dr. Mona West, Email: RevMonaWest@
MCCchurch.net
Periodicals
MCC Impact
Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America is a Christian Church
that answers God’s call to transform the world
through a ministry of service that feeds, clothes,
shelters and demonstrates to all people that they
are beloved children of God. As part of that ministry,
Volunteers of America provides local
human service programs and opportunities for
individual and community involvement through
local affiliate offices and the National Services
Housing and Health Care Division. Volunteers
of America has become the largest non profit
provider of housing (affordable/senior/homeless
shelters) in the US.
Founded in 1896 by Christian social reformers
Ballington and Maud Booth, Volunteers of
America provides over 100 different types of
programs and services in more than 400 communities
nationwide. Programs include services for
abused and neglected children, youth at risk, the
elderly, people with disabilities, homeless individuals
and families, and many others. It also
provides a national Prison After-Care program
that engages local congregations of all denominations
as mentors to newly released prisoners. It
employs 16,000 individuals whose work is
assisted by over 90,000 committed volunteers.
Headquarters
1660 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314-3427, Tel.
(800)899-0089
Email: voa@voa.org
Website: www.voa.org
Officers
Chpsn., David Kikumoto
Pres., Charles W. Gould, 1660 Duke St.,
Alexandria, VA. 22314, Tel. (703)341-5000
Vice President, Ministry, Harry V. Quiett, 1660
Duke St., Alexandria, VA. 22314
Tel. (703)341-5084 Fax (703)341-7000
Email: hquiett@voa.org
39 local affiliate offices and one National
Services Division. Information accesible
through the national website: www.voa.org
Periodicals
Spirit Magazine, Gazette
The Wesleyan Church
The Wesleyan Church was formed on June 26,
1968, through the union of the Wesleyan
Methodist Church of America (1843) and the
Pilgrim Holiness Church (1897). The headquarters
was established at Marion, Ind., and relocated
to Indianapolis in 1987,and relocated again
in Fishers, Indiana in 2004.
The Wesleyan movement centers around the
beliefs, based on Scripture, that the atonement in
Christ provides for the regeneration of sinners and
the entire sanctification of believers. John Wesley
led a revival of these beliefs in the 18th century.
When a group of New England Methodist
ministers led by Orange Scott began to crusade
for the abolition of slavery, the bishops and others
sought to silence them. This led to a series of
withdrawals from the Methodist Episcopal
Church. In 1843, the Wesleyan Methodist
Connection of America was organized and led by
Scott, Jotham Horton, LaRoy Sunderland, Luther
Lee and Lucius C. Matlack.
During the holiness revival in the last half of
the 19th century, holiness replaced social reform
as the major tenet of the Connection. In 1947 the
name was changed from Connection to Church
and a central supervisory authority was set up.
The Pilgrim Holiness Church was one of many
independent holiness churches which came into
existence as a result of the holiness revival. Led
by Martin Wells Knapp and Seth C. Rees, the
International Holiness Union and Prayer League
was inaugurated in 1897 in Cincinnati. Its purpose
was to promote worldwide holiness evangelism
and the Union had a strong missionary
emphasis from the beginning. It developed into a
church by 1913.
The Wesleyan Church is now spread across
most of the United States and Canada and in over
90 other countries. The International Conference
of The Wesleyan Church, originally named
Wesleyan World Fellowship, was organized in
1972 to unite Wesleyan mission bodies developing
into mature churches. The Wesleyan Church is
a member of the Christian Holiness Partnership,
the National Association of Evangelicals and the
World Methodist Council.
Headquarters
P.O. Box 50434, Indianapolis, IN 46250, Tel.
(317)774-7900
Media Contact, Gen. Sec., Dr. Ronald D. Kelly,
Tel. (317)774-7907 Fax (317)744-3924
Email: kellyr@wesleyan.org
Mailing Address: P.O.Box 50434, Indianapolis,
IN 46250
Email: generalsecretary@wesleyan.org
Website: www.wesleyan.org
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