重要時程
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
2022 教會