Oneness Apostolic House Churches

[Noetos]

Does anyone know of any Oneness Apostolic house churches? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks, Noetos.

[essaias]

Originally Posted by Noetos

Does anyone know of any Oneness Apostolic house churches? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks, Noetos.

I know of two in the Houston, TX area.

However, one is a "spiritual communion" group (meaning they do not actually eat communion or practice footwashing). The other takes communion, but I am not sure about the footwashing.

Both would be considered "moderate" to "semi-liberal" in regards to standards.

The spiritual communion group was my home church for about a year until we moved to Oklahoma City. The other one I know of from another brother who knows the people.

They are out there, just real hard to find unless you know someone who knows someone, and now you know!

peace-

[Tam]

We have one, in my small town Soper, Oklahoma. They were in a church and things went sour and so half of the church stayed with the preacher and half went to the as. preachers house and last I heard they are still having it. I found the truth and was baptised in the church and then later split to the home church.

[Estrada]

I've been trying to get a hold of a church in Moline Illinois where my sister is located and have had a terrible time does anyone know of any church over there besides disconnected numbers

[Jesusonly]

Originally Posted by Estrada

I've been trying to get a hold of a church in Moline Illinois where my sister is located and have had a terrible time does anyone know of any church over there besides disconnected numbers

Your sister is welcome to attend my church in Chicago, the name of my church is the Indiana ave. Pentecostal church of God, 3520 s. Indiana ave. , Sunday school start at 9:45am, Morning Worship is at 11:45am, and evening worship is at 4:00pm. I am not sure how close Moline is to Chicago, if it not too far for to drive she is alway welcome to pay us a visit.

[mbrugh]

Covenant Apostolic Churches International (Mobile, AL).

Here are some links:

http://www.freewebs.com/covenantapostolic/

http://www.freewebs.com/covenantapostolic/covenant.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/thetencommandments/

[Michlow]

Originally Posted by mbrugh

Covenant Apostolic Churches International (Mobile, AL).

Here are some links:

http://www.freewebs.com/covenantapostolic/

http://www.freewebs.com/covenantapostolic/covenant.htm

http://www.freewebs.com/thetencommandments/

Are those apostolics or 7th Day Adventists?

[Tim Harless]

This is our house church: www.haf.churchinacts.com

[traditionbreake]

This is our house church www.lcffreeport.com

[lamama]

Originally Posted by Noetos

Does anyone know of any Oneness Apostolic house churches? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks, Noetos.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NTHC/

New Testament House Churches is a network connecting Apostolic Pentecostals.

[SisterACTS]

Originally Posted by lamama

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NTHC/

New Tesament House Churches is a network to connect Apostolic Pentecostals.

What a great group!! How many are in attendance in this house church? or churches? Sure wish there was some folks like you around me!

I love so much of what you believe!

[aposreform]

I went to a home church in Phoenix, Arizona for a while. It turned into a religious cult, that ruined a lot of peoples lives. There was one Oneness Apostolic church in either Tempe or Mesa, Arizona that was pretty successful and a lot of people got the Holy Ghost there. This was in the late 80's. They had no real problems. The Pastor did not rule with an iron fist, but one of the people that went there told me that he said it was up to the individual if they would stay saved. He did not put a heavy financial burden on the congregation, but they gave any way and helped a lot of the local home less and poor. They had the holiness standard and never deviated from it.

[lamama]

Going to Church by Staying at Home
Clergy-Less Living Room Services Seen as a Growing Trend

By Michael Alison Chandler and Arianne Aryanpur
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 4, 2006; A12

After Sunday dinner at Joe Rodgers's Rockville home, guests adjourn to the living room for church.

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But just as there is no formal name or dress code for this church, there is no sermon or pastor-led prayer. When it came time to bow their heads on a recent May evening, each of the 10 adults in attendance had something to contribute: One man prayed for success with his new fitness program; another sought guidance as he prepared for his upcoming marriage.
The worshipers have different faith backgrounds, including evangelical, Episcopalian and Catholic. What they share is a dissatisfaction with traditional church services.

"You can't ask questions in most churches. You might make an appointment with the pastor, get in his daybook for a quick lunch," said Rodgers, 50.
A growing number of Christians across Washington and around the country are moving to home churches -- both as a way to create personal connections in the age of the megachurch and as a return to the blueprint of the Christian church spelled out in the New Testament, which describes Jesus and the apostles teaching small groups in people's homes.
Estimates vary widely for a movement that is by design informal and decentralized, but the consensus among home-churchers is that they are part of a growing trend.

George Barna, a religion pollster, estimates that since 2000, more than 20 million Americans have begun exploring alternative forms of worship, including home churches, workplace ministries and online faith communities. Barna based that figure on surveys of the religious practices and attitudes of American adults that he has conducted over the past 25 years.

"These are people who are less interested in attending church than in being the church," said Barna, who became a home-churcher last year.

The alternatives are attractive to those who want to deepen their relationships with God and one another, and they also suit Americans' growing taste for flexibility and control of their schedules, he said.

Although many Christians still participate in their old churches while trying out a new one, Barna predicts that over the next two decades, traditional churches will lose half their "market share" to these alternative start-ups.
His estimates far exceed the best guesses of home-church networks.

The Orlando-based Dawn Ministries places the number of home churches in the United States in the tens of thousands, based partly on the size of online directories and attendance at home-church conferences.

Home churches are usually nondenominational and consist of a dozen or so friends or family members who often meet without an ordained pastor. They have historically proliferated in countries with repressive regimes. In China, millions of people have converted to Christianity in unauthorized home churches over the past half-century. But the United States has seen only intermittent swells of activity.

The free-form style of fellowship got a boost in this country during the 1960s and 1970s with the hippie Jesus Movement and the Charismatic Renewal, a worldwide movement best known for embracing speaking in tongues and other emotional expressions of faith. Those movements downplayed hierarchy and emphasized broad participation.

The more recent rise of home churches has been facilitated by the Internet, said John White, a Denver-based coordinator for Dawn Ministries, one of several organizations that helps plant new home churches.

White said that when he tired of the "endless" church administration meetings and quit his job as a Presbyterian minister to start a home church eight years ago, it was difficult to find anyone to join. Now he has an e-mail list of more than 800 people nationwide who receive his postings about practical issues of home churching -- addressing such matters as how to organize child-friendly services, how to handle tithing, and what to do if the church gets too big.

With more access to religious information online, people are realizing that they don't have to rely on a pastor with an advanced degree to lead them, White said. Instead, they can learn how to create an alternative in a few steps. The result is an overall "flattening of the church," White said.

This is in keeping with God's plan to have a "kingdom of priests" in which everyone participates in his or her religious life, he said.

With next to no overhead, home churches are easy to set up. Dawn Ministries has been sending missionaries, or "coaches," to establish home churches around the world since 1985 and now has about 2,000 volunteers working in about 150 countries.

The model has been less successful in the United States -- until recently.

Responding to the growing interest in home churches, over the past year the organization has increased the number of coaches working in North America from about five to 70, mostly in the Midwest, California, Texas and Colorado.

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Many traditional churches do have midweek Bible study groups or cell churches. For some, these can be a first taste of home church, said Greg Windsor, a real estate developer and a member of the Rockville congregation that meets in Rodgers's home.

Windsor, 48, became interested in home churching almost 10 years ago while he was attending a megachurch in Montgomery County.
"The person sitting next to you in the pew could be close to dying, but people don't really know one another," he said. By abandoning the steeple, the pastor and the crowds of people, Windsor said, his tiny congregation is trying to live according to the New Testament.

"A lot of embellishments happened over the centuries," Windsor said. The modern Christian church is "like a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy," he said. "It starts getting distorted and changed."

Windsor and his wife started reading about home churches and broke off from a bigger church to meet with a group in northern Maryland. After several years, that group grew too large -- about 30 people -- and the couple broke off again, starting the home church in Rockville. Stripped to its most basic elements, he said, his group can focus on developing "deep friendships" and "helping one another grow spiritually."

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By about 9 p.m., it was time to go home. But Windsor said church does not end when the service is over. Members might meet several times during the week, and church can continue over coffee at Starbucks or during a biblical discussion at a family barbecue.
For them, church is not tied to a building or confined to a couple hours a week, he said. "It's a way of life."

© 2006 The Washington Post Company

[A.H.A.]

Yes, Acts House Assembly - in Gilbert, Arizona.
http://www.actshouseassembly.org

Great videos and articles on house church!

[ddc101]

Okay thanks