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VISUAL ARTS TIMELINE 1991:  The Church of Almighty God started its activities in China. 1995:  The Chinese government banned the Church of Almighty God. 1996:  The first massive arrests of members of the Church of Almighty God started in China. 2014:  Because of increased persecution, some members of the Church of Almighty God escaped from Mainland China, and later established Church branches in South Korea, USA, Spain and other countries. An artistic activity started in these branches, with the production of paintings and movies. 2014-2017:  More than 2,000 paintings, mostly used in movies and videos, and none of them signed by their authors, were produced by members of the Church of Almighty God in South Korea. 2014:  The Mission of Love became the first movie produced and released by the…

UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY TIMELINE    1845 (August 6):  Myrtle Fillmore was born Mary Caroline Page in Pagetown, Ohio. 1854 (August 22):  Charles Fillmore was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. 1881 (March 29):  Myrtle and Charles Fillmore were married. 1886 (Spring):  Myrtle Fillmore heard a lecture on New Thought affirmation healing technique. 1887 (July): The Fillmores received certification as Christian Science healers. 1889 (Spring):  The Fillmores began a healing practice in Kansas City, Missouri. 1889 (April):  The first issue of Modern Thought, the first Unity magazine, was published. 1889 (April):  The Society of Silent Unity was founded. 1903:  The Kansas City Society of Practical Christianity, a nonprofit church, was founded. 1909:  Unity began correspondence courses. 1914 (April 14):  The Unity School of Christianity was formally incorporated. 1920:  The Fillmores acquired…

SAUT-D’EAU TIMELINE 1492:  During his first transatlantic expedition, Christopher Columbus and his crew landed on a large island in the Caribbean that Native Americans called Kiskeya, claimed it for Spain, and introduced Catholicism. One of his ships was named for the Virgin Mary, La Santa María, while the explorer renamed the island “La Isla Española” (Hispaniola). 1502:  The brothers Alfonso and Antonio Trejo brought from Spain to Hispaniola an icon of Our Lady of High Grace (Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia), donating it to the parish church in Higuey. 1572:  The Shrine of Our Lady of High Grace was erected in Higuey. 1791-1804:  In the French plantation colony of Saint-Domingue, insurgent slaves and revolting free coloreds launched and fought in the Haitian Revolution, which they ultimately won, resulting in the…

BNEI NOAH TIMELINE 200-300 CE:  The “Seven Laws of Noah” were discussed in the Babylonian Talmud. 4 BCE- 2 CE:  Gentiles known as “God-sympathizers” (sebomenoi) observed Jewish practices but did not convert to Judaism. 1860s:  The idea of Noahidism as a Judaic religion for non-Jews was developed by Rabbi Elijah Benamozegh. 1920-1930s:  Aime Palliere became a Noahide and spread the teachings of Elijah Benamozegh in Europe. 1980s:  The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, promoted the Seven Noahide Laws as a universal moral code for all mankind. 1990:  The first international Noahide conference was held in Fort Worth, Texas. 1991:  The United States Congress recognized the Noahide Laws as a universal moral code. 2000:  Noahidism in the Philippines began to spread. 2010:  The Netiv Center for Torah Study, a Noahide congregation,…

SAINT BLANDINA TIMELINE Date of birth unknown. 177:  Year of Blandina’s death as given by Eusebius of Caesarea (263–339). HISTORY/CONTEXT By the end of the second century, Christianity had made inroads into North Africa and had spread as far west as Gaul. The spread to Gaul was enabled by active trade that took place via a land route between Marseilles in the Rhone Valley and Smyrna in Asia Minor. An extensive water navigational system with a port at Arles from which ships could travel to Lyon made Lyon a river crossroad; establishing a significant connection between Gaul’s interior and exterior land navigational routes. While Celtic society had produced both land and river navigation routes prior to the Roman conquest of Gaul in the mid-first century B.C.E., it was Rome that…

BETHEL CHURCH TIMELINE 1951:   Bill Johnson was born in Minnesota. 1952:   Several families in Redding, California met in a private home with Assemblies of God pastor Robert Doherty. 1953:   The group grew and moved to Eagles Hall on Yorba Street. 1954:   The group continued to grow, moved to the Seventh Day Adventist Church and applied for incorporation with the Assemblies of God as Bethel Church. 1964:   The Bechelli Lane property was acquired and the new facility was dedicated. 1966:   Doherty was reassigned. Vic Trimmer, Kansas evangelist, was called. 1968:   Trimmer was reassigned. Earl Johnson of Downey California was called. 1978:   Johnson’s son, Bill, was called to Mountain Chapel in Weaverville, California. He accepted on condition that he remain under his father’s guidance. He became close to John Wimber of the…