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08-11-2010, 05:33 PM
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Re: Number of Apostolic Churches around me.
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Originally Posted by jfrog
I can think of at least 7 apostolic churches within about 25 miles of me and that is only the ones I know of.
3 have well over 100 members. Maybe more now.
3 I've never been to. 1 of which is probably younger than a year old.
1 I have been to but it was years ago. It wasn't as big as the other three but it wasn't tiny.
There are probably a few other ones I don't know about. It just seems to me like there are alot of apostolic churches in my area.
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Do you live in a big city? If so, then you probably need that many. But why don't they fellowship together? Do they still have fellowship meetings? We use to have them when I was growing up. I loved it, traveling as far as 50 miles, and I grew up in Dallas.
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08-11-2010, 08:22 PM
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Re: Number of Apostolic Churches around me.
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Originally Posted by Cindy
Do you live in a big city? If so, then you probably need that many. But why don't they fellowship together? Do they still have fellowship meetings? We use to have them when I was growing up. I loved it, traveling as far as 50 miles, and I grew up in Dallas.
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There is an organization called The United Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ with a few churches, mostly in Indiana. They have a fellowship meeting monthly. Their web site has not been updated for a long time but it is
http://uac-jc.org/home.php
I keep thinking I'm going to get to one of the fellowship meetings but i think the closest one to me is about 100 miles.
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08-11-2010, 11:38 PM
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Re: Number of Apostolic Churches around me.
Do any churches in the UPC still have fellowship meetings? I loved them as a child/teen.
Once a month on Sat night.( taking a guess, since it's been many years, but I think the 3rd Sat)
Since not a lot of churches in our area,a drive of 50 to 100 miles not unusual.
Service: singing, specials and preaching
Fellowship: sandwiches and cake; sometimes there was more but it was after service...and the emphasis was on fellowship!
In our northern area the circle had UPC and PAW churches. Great memories!
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08-12-2010, 06:09 AM
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Re: Number of Apostolic Churches around me.
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Originally Posted by commonsense
Do any churches in the UPC still have fellowship meetings? I loved them as a child/teen.
Once a month on Sat night.( taking a guess, since it's been many years, but I think the 3rd Sat)
Since not a lot of churches in our area,a drive of 50 to 100 miles not unusual.
Service: singing, specials and preaching
Fellowship: sandwiches and cake; sometimes there was more but it was after service...and the emphasis was on fellowship!
In our northern area the circle had UPC and PAW churches. Great memories!
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I attended a UPC church in Racine, WI from around Thanksgiving or Christmas 1955 until I left for Bible School in September 1956. We had fellowship meetings on Saturdays, not sure which week of the month.
We had an afternoon service where the different ministers would get up and say something and there would be special singing. Then there would be dinner in the basement or where ever you could find a place to sit down. Afterward there was a Pentecostal Conquerors service followed by a later evening service. I had the privilege of preaching one of those Pentecostal Conquerors services one time. I can't remember all the churches who participated but I do remember Racine, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Mukwonago , and South Beloit (which was on the Illinois/Wisconsin border).
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08-16-2010, 08:59 PM
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Re: Number of Apostolic Churches around me.
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Originally Posted by commonsense
Do any churches in the UPC still have fellowship meetings? I loved them as a child/teen.
Once a month on Sat night.( taking a guess, since it's been many years, but I think the 3rd Sat)
Since not a lot of churches in our area,a drive of 50 to 100 miles not unusual.
Service: singing, specials and preaching
Fellowship: sandwiches and cake; sometimes there was more but it was after service...and the emphasis was on fellowship!
In our northern area the circle had UPC and PAW churches. Great memories!
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commonsense, I think there were a lot more fellowship meeting years ago simply because for the most part churches were very small and it was a chance for folks to get to worship with a larger group and socialize with peoplpe beyond their little group
Over the last 30 years the size of OP churches have grown and most of them are large enough to organize their own functions. They have enough young people to have dedicated youth activities and enough adult members that you can concentrate on events and activities to get the church members to know each other.
As a young man growing up in Alaska not only was our church small (around 60 members) but the nearest other UPC church was 16 miles away and then the next closest one 90 miles away. In those circumstancs we loved any type of fellowship meeting where it would mean we would see another UPCer!
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
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"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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