Having grown up in the Canadian version of the denomination and having worked in Alliance churches since 2000, I think it's great to see our US counterparts thinking outside the box. I hope we see more opportunities like this in the future.
The following is from Craig Gross' end of the year update:
The Christian Missionary Alliance is joining up with us as well. They are a denomination founded by AB Simpson.➢ In the 1880’s Simpson was the pastor of perhaps the most prestigious church in New York City and perhaps the nation.
➢ Simpson spent considerable time reaching out to men and women who were often rejected by ‘the church’. Included were the Italian dockworkers, to sailors, to streetwalkers, to unwed mothers.
➢ This all resulted in Simpson leaving his prestigious church and beginning a church on the backstage of a NYC theatre creating a SAFE place for people that had the greatest needs.
➢ Simpson was merely living out the example of Jesus Christ, who spent most of His time with the people the religious leaders often rejected.
➢ The Alliance DNA was established by AB Simpson with a passion to bring the healing Christ offers to broken people.
➢ The first Alliance church plant planted by Simpson in NYC was known at The Gospel Tabernacle. Central to the church were numerous rescue missions, some of which exist to this day. This was happening 130 years ago in The Alliance.
➢ Now today The C&MA is made up of 26000 churches worldwide with critical ministries reaching out to people that have been entrapped by the grip of the sex industry in places like Thailand, Cambodia, Mali and the continent of Africa. It’s what we do!
➢ For XXXChurch to partner with The Christian & Missionary Alliance makes all the sense in the world.
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