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Albert Cecil Williams (September 22, 1929 – April 22, 2024) was an American pastor, civil and LGBT rights activist, community leader, and author who was the pastor of Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. [1] He was one of the first five African-American graduates of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University ...
The Third Baptist Church, formerly the First Colored Baptist Church, is an American Baptist church founded in 1852, and located in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, California. [2][3] It is the city of San Francisco's oldest African-American church. [4][5] The church occupied several spaces in San Francisco over the course of ...
The National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (NACCC) is an association of 304 churches [2] providing fellowship for and services to churches from the Congregational tradition. The Association maintains its national office in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee. The body was founded in 1955 by former clergy and laypeople ...
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Glide Memorial Church is a nondenominational church in San Francisco, California, [1] which opened in 1930. [2] Since the 1960s, it has served as a counter-culture rallying point, as one of the most prominently liberal churches in the United States. Located in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood, an area affected by drug addiction and ...
The former Second Church of Christ, Scientist is an historic Christian Science church building located at the corner of Dolores Street and Cumberland Street, across from Dolores Park in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, United States. Built in 1916, it was designed by San Francisco architect William H. Crim in the Beaux Arts ...
Coordinates: 37.7839°N 122.4336°W. The Peoples Temple headquarters, 1859 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, 1978. The Peoples Temple, the new religious movement which came to be known for the mass killings at Jonestown, was headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States from the early to mid-1970s until the Temple's move to Guyana in 1977.
The San Diego local corps was founded in 1989 with help from former Representative Lynn Schenk and then-Mayor Maureen O'Connor, with an initial budget of $125,000. [10] They engage in a variety of community service and conservation projects, including stadium cleanup, [ 11 ] [ 12 ] trash pickup [ 13 ] and graffiti removal. [ 14 ]