The United Church of Christ in Nations (Hadaddiyar Ekklisiyar Kristi a Nahiyya) is a
Reformed
Reform is beneficial change
Reform may also refer to:
Media
* ''Reform'' (album), a 2011 album by Jane Zhang
* Reform (band), a Swedish jazz fusion group
* ''Reform'' (magazine), a Christian magazine
*''Reforme'' ("Reforms"), initial name of the ...
denomination a member of the
World Communion of Reformed Churches
The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest association of Calvinist churches in the world. It has 230 member denominations in 108 countries, together claiming an estimated 80 million people, thus being the fourth-largest Chris ...
.
The
Church of the Brethren
The Church of the Brethren is an Anabaptist Christian denomination in the Schwarzenau Brethren (german: link=no, Schwarzenauer Neutäufer "Schwarzenau New Baptists") tradition that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germa ...
, the
Sudan Interior Mission
SIM is an international, interdenominational Evangelical Christian mission organization. It was established in 1893 by its three founders, Walter Gowans and Rowland Bingham of Canada and Thomas Kent of the United States.
The initials originally ...
,
Sudan United Mission begun collaborating in 1956 to build a church in the Armed Forces in
Kaduna
Kaduna is the capital city of Kaduna State, and the former political capital of Northern Region, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria. It is located in north-western Nigeria, on the Kaduna River. It is a trade Centre and a major transportation hub as the ...
. This mission developed rapidly. Between the Sudan United Mission and Sudan Interior Mission arose a controversy over infant baptism. The Sudan United Mission withdrew in 1962 and with the leadership of Pastor Habila Aleiyedeno the new church grew significantly. In 2004 it had 66,000 members and 81 congregations and 12 house fellowships. There's no women ordination.
According to the statistics there are over 100 congregations, 35 ministers.
[{{cite web, url=http://www.hekanchurch.org/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D15%26Itemid%3D18 , title=The Origin of the United Church of Christ in Nigeria , accessdate=April 9, 2014 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121112002659/http://hekanchurch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=18 , archivedate=November 12, 2012 www.hekanchurch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15&Itemid=18]
External links
United Church of Christ website
References
Reformed denominations in Africa
Members of the World Communion of Reformed Churches