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About RCA

RCA (Reformed Church in America) 
The RCA is the oldest active denomination in the United States with a continuous ministry since 1624. It connected ecumenically in a Formula of Agreement with the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a mainline Protestant denomination.

The word Reformed comes from the Protestant Reformation in Europe in the 1500's with such leaders as Martin Luther and John Calvin. Calvin's reformation in Geneva spread to Scotland (where it was called Presbyterian) and to Holland (where it became our ancestor, the Dutch Reformed Church).

Since the first congregation in New Amsterdam in 1628, the Reformed Church has included many different races and nationalities in its congregations.

The Reformed Church has about 960 congregations in the United States and Canada with an active confirmed membership of 203,000 persons.

It's large and well known congregations are the Marble Collegiate Church in New York City and the Crystal Cathedral in California. There are congregations large and small with clusters in Iowa, in the states around Chicago, western Michigan, the Hudson-Mohawk valley in New York state, New Jersey and Florida. Recent church development efforts have been in the Carolinas, Georgia, Connecticut, Texas and Canada.

This congregation was begun in 1965 with much help from various agencies and boards of the denomination.


 
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