Milestones

1564   Explorers Bridge the Pacific
1776   Declaration of Independence
1787   Constitution of the United States of America
1801   The Cane Ridge Camp Meeting brings together Christians from different sects in an                            enthusiastic expression of ecumenical worship. 
1803   Louisiana Purchase
1804   Barton Stone, inspired by the ecumenism and spirit of the Cane Ridge Revival, gathers                   with several other Presbyterian ministers to write “The Last Will and Testament of the                       Springfield Presbytery,”  with the goal of  forming a “primitive” church unified as one                       body.
1809   Thomas Campbell (father of Alexander Campbell) gathers Christians from several                             denominations for Christian tian worship. They form the Christian Association of                               Washington in Washington County, Pennsylvania. 
1820   African American members are listed in records of churches in Cane Ridge,                                       Kentucky, and Brush Run, Pennsylvania.
1828   Georgia Law Takes Cherokee Land (Dec. 20, 1828)
1832   Barton Stone's "Christian Movement" and Alexander Campbell's "Disciples                                     Movement" join together in Lexington, Kentucky.
1834   Colored Christian Church is instituted. African Americans in mixed congregations are                       welcome  to serve as "exhorters"-preachers to other African Americans, deacons who                     serve other African Americans, and custodians. In Black churches, they can serve in all                     roles. Congregations are generally autonomous in free states; in slave states, they and                     their officers are supervised by a White "mother church." 
1846   The Oregon Treaty Defines the Canadian Border (June 15, 1846)
1849   The American Christian Missionary Society (ACMS) is constituted to                                                     “promote the gospel in destitute places of our own and foreign lands.”
1851   James Barkley is sent to Jerusalem as the first Disciples missionary.
1853   Commodore Perry Reaches Tokyo (July 8, 1853)
1853   Alexander Cross, recognized for his great preaching, is bought out of slavery to become                 the first Disciples missionary to Liberia. (Cross dies soon after his arrival, probably of                         malaria.)
1863   Abraham Lincoln Reminds America of Its Founding Principles (Nov. 19, 1863)
1874   The Christian Woman's Board of Mission (CWBM) is established.
1875   The Foreign Christian Missionary Society (FCMS) is established.
1875   Southern Christian Institute (SCI) is chartered by the state of Mississippi to offer education               and trade skills to free Blacks.
1882   The CWBM and the FCMS establish a mission in India.
1882   Southern Christian Institute (SCI) opens its doors. It merges into Tougaloo College in 1954.             (SCI is one of only three Disciples-established Black higher education institutions at the                   end of the nineteenth century.)
1883   The CWBM and FCMS establish a mission in Japan.
1886   The CWBM and FCMS establish a mission in China.
1887   The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) establishes the National Benevolent Association               (NBA) to help consolidate its charitable efforts within  the United States.
1891   The CWBM opens a Chinese mission in Portland, Oregon.
1892   Ida B. Wells Releases Southern Horrors (Oct. 26, 1892)
1893   Disciples participate in a land grab in Oklahoma to establish churches for pioneers. The                   land grab displaces thousands of Native Americans.
1897   The CWBM and the FCMS establish a mission in what is now the Congo.
1899   The CWBM and the FCMS establish a mission in Cuba.
1900   The CWBM and the FCMS establish a mission in Hawaii. 
1901   The Supreme Court Sets Puerto Rico Apart (May 27, 1901)
1906   Churches of Christ break from the Disciples around issues including scriptural  authority                   and instrumental music. 
1907   The Christian Churches approved membership in the Federal Council of  Churches                           (eventually known as the National Council of Churches. 
1907   Chinese Christian Institute in San Francisco established by CWBM.
1908   Japanese Christian Institute in Los Angeles established.
1910   The Disciples ecumenical ministry, Council on Christian Unity, is established. 
1913   The Inman Center is established to house Mexican Americans in San Antonio. 
1914   A Japanese students' Bible group in Berkeley, California that started in 1904 formalizes                   itself as Berkeley Japanese Christian Church. 
1916   First records of State Mexican Convention. They continued until 1922, and resumed again               in1944 with seven churches in Texas participating. 
1917   International Convention of Disciples is established.
1917   National Christian Missionary Convention (NCMC) establishes African American Disciples               with Preston Taylor as its leader "to create a medium of self-expression and cooperative                 endeavor for development of our churches that our best contribution may be made to our             posterity and to the world." It is established largely to give autonomy to Black Disciples                   churches,  who had been placed into a "parent-child" relationship with White churches.
1918   The Meuse-Argonne Campaign Begins (Sept. 26, 1918)
1919   United Christian Missionary Society is created to consolidate mission work among                           Disciples.
1921   Yakima (now Yakama) Mission for Native Americans is opened after a year of  building by                  the ACMS. 
1923   Chinese missions close as Chinese populations dwindle as a result of the Chinese                             Exclusion Acts and anti-Asian hostility. 
1929   Stock Market Crash
1933   American Nazis Meet in Los Angeles (July 26, 1933)
1933   Filipino Christian Church is founded in Los Angeles (still in existence). 
1935   Disciples Peace Fellowship is established. 
1939   La Hermosa Christian Church is established. It becomes the first Hispanic Disciples church               in New York in 1943 when it affiliates. 
1942   With the internment of Japanese people, Japanese Christian Church in Los Angeles is                     taken under care by denomination - All Peoples Christian Center is born. At the end of the             year, some Japanese Americans return to the building and what is now All Peoples. Others             desire their own church back. 1944-The  NCVMC votes to expand its partnership with the               United Christian Missionary Society. Arguably beginning the process that leads to merger               in 1969, the merger is complete in 1960. 
1945   The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1948   President Truman Orders Racial Equality in the Military (July 26, 1948)
1948   Returnees of former Japanese Christian Church found West Adams Christian Church.                       Although there were four Japanese Disciples churches before World War II, the                                 denomination finally agrees to help build another one, West Adams  Christian Church in                 Los Angeles after the war  (after efforts to assimilate all Japanese Disciples into existing                   congregations), giving birth to  West Adams Christian Church (still in existence) in Los                     Angeles. 
1953   President Eisenhower Effectively Bans LGBT People From Government (April 27, 1953)
1954   The U.S. Begins Mass Deportation of Mexican Migrants (June 9, 1954)
1958   Second Christian Church in the Bronx hosts the first Northwest Convention of                                   Hispanic Christian Churches (Disciples of Christ) involving six congregations.
1960   Commission on Brotherhood Restructure is authorized, beginning the movement toward                 the Disciples' official establishment as a denomination. 
1964   Ella Baker Makes a Plea for Black Lives (Aug. 6, 1964)
1965   The Immigration Act opens the United States' borders to Asian immigrants, creating                       opportunities for ministry in Asian American community. 
1966   Martin Luther King Jr. Is Assaulted in Chicago (Aug. 5, 1966)
1966   Division of Homeland Ministries (DHM) organizes Consultation on Hispanic Ministry,                         including Hispanic American leaders and leaders from Mexico and Puerto Rico. 

1968   Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) officially becomes a denomination, and  many                         Independent Christian Churches/Churches of Christ choose not to affiliate with it.                            "Provisional Design of the Christian Church" is adopted at this time.

1969   The International Convention of Christian Churches adopts “Principles for Merger of the                 National Christian Missionary Convention and the International Convention of Christian                   Churches (Disciples of Christ),” completing 26 years of movement toward unity between                 African American and White Disciples.
1969   DHM calls Domingo Rodriguez as the first Hispanic to serve as Director of the Office of                   Programs and Services for Hispanic and Bilingual Congregations, replacing Byron Spice. 
1970   Domingo Rodriguez, Director of Program Services to Hispanic Congregations at DHM                     leads the first conference of Hispanic American Ministers in Indianapolis, including thirty-               eight ministers from eleven states, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. 
1972   Nixon Meets Mao (Feb. 21, 1972)
1972   Harold Johnson of DHM visits Thailand and begins to realize the need to foster                                 conversation among Asian Disciples in the United States. 
1976   Wilshire Korean Christian Church becomes first Korean Disciples congregation (Korean                   Disciples represent 75% of NAPAD congregations). 
1977   Luz Bacerra is hired by Department of Church Women, becoming the first person of Asian               ancestry to work in the general church. 
1978   Midwest Hispanic and Bilingual Convention of Christian Churches meets for the first time. 
1978   Harold Johnson calls the first consultation of Asian Disciples (including sixteen Asians and               three general church staff members). 
1978   First consultation of Asian Disciples is held in Indianapolis and names itself the Fellowship               of Asian American Disciples
1979   John Compton becomes the first African American to serve as Regional Minister (Indiana,               1979-81) 
1979   Second consultation of Asian Disciples held. The name is changed to American Asian                       Disciples (AAD). At the General Assembly, the American Asian Disciples is officially                           recognized. AAD is formally acknowledged as a racial-ethnic ministry (with formal                             recognition by General Board in 1984).
1979   "The Hispanic Encounter" is established to welcome laypeople into what had previously                  been a Hispanic ministers group. 
1980   First AAD Convocation held in Indianapolis. David Kagiwada is elected as the first                           convener.
1982   John Compton becomes first African American to serve as president of a General Unit                     (DHM, 1982-1989).
1990   After sixty-seven years, Chinese Disciples ministries begin again with First Christian Church             in Alhambra, California. 
1991   Anita Hill Speaks Up on Harassment (Oct. 11, 1991)
1991   General Assembly directs DHM to create a position to focus exclusively on Asian American             Ministries. Dr. Geunhee Yu is called to the position in 1992, when there are eight American             Asian Disciples congregations. 
1992   Central Pastoral Office on Hispanic Ministries is established as an independent                                 organization within the general church. 
1993   元月恩典教會在pastor Lee 鼓勵協助下成立並正式聚會。
1994   連瑞和申請加入Disciples of Christ   
1996   連牧師正式被接納成為這教派牧師。
1996   AAD becomes the North American Pacific/Asian Disciples (NAPAD).
1997   恩典教會正式成立同工會，之前均為臨時同工。
2001   September 11 Attacks
2001   Patricia (Cisa) Payuyo is elected First Vice-Moderator of the General Assembly.
2005   Carolyn Ho is elected First Vice-Moderator of the General Assembly.
2005   Sharon Watkins named first female head of a mainline denomination.
2008   Election of Barack Obama
2011   Rev. Dr. Geunhee Yu retired. NAPAD’s Board of Directors nominated Rev. Jinsuk Chun as                 the next Executive Pastor.
2012   The 17th NAPAD Convocation elected Rev. Jinsuk Chun as the Executive Pastor.
2015   Rev. Jinsuk Chun resigns from his position as Executive Pastor.
2016   Rev. Geunhee Yu appointed Short Term Interim Executive Pastor to serve from January                   2016 to June 2016
2016   The 19th NAPAD Convocation elected Rev. Chung Seong Kim as Interim Executive Pastor.
2018   The 20th NAPAD convocation elected Rev. Chung Seong Kim as Executive Pastor.
2019   教會成立長執會
2019   韓牧師加入事奉
2019   Rev. Richie Sanchez is the Regional Minister and President of PSWR
2020   Outbreak of COVID-19

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