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From: "Alice Hawrilenko" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Kreider's Reformed Church
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:34:33 -0400
References: <839862.85920.qm@web88315.mail.re4.yahoo.com>


Thank you everyone. I am grateful. Your replies helped. The wonderful thing
about the USA is the freedom of religion. The difficult thing about USA
genealogy is the freedom of religion....
Alice
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rhodes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Kreider's Reformed Church


> The two mainline protestant groups that grew out of the sixteenth century
> reformation were the Reformed and the Lutheran. The Reformed churches
> included German Reformed, Dutch Reformed, and the Presbyterians among
> others. Today, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) includes
> 75,000,000 followers of the various reformed traditions. In the USA the
> main ones are the Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA) and several of the
> smaller Presbyterian denominations, the Reformed Church of America (RCA)
> that developed from the Dutch Reformed Church, the and the United Church
> of Christ (UCC) that combined the German Reformed Church of America with
> several smaller reformed denominations.
>
> The main Lutheran denominations in USA are the Evangelical Lutheran
> Church of America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod).
>
> All are "Christian". All are "protestant". We won't get into their
> politics.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> John M. Rhodes
>
> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 6/20/2007 11:46:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> Can some kind soul please explain to me what religion this church would be
> considered in the 1700s? I find myself getting very confused concerning
> the
> different denominations.
> Thanks very much.
> Alice
>
>
>
> ----
> Alice-
>
> "Reformed" WAS the religion--German Reformed. The religion was a bit MORE
> Protestant than Lutheran if that helps to distinguish the two. Very often
> you will see a church in that time period referred to as Lutheran and
> Reformed. When you see that designation it means the church building was a
> Union
> church shared by two congregations and two ministers--one Lutheran and the
> other Reformed.
>
> Joan
>
>
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