WRSP locates and links to online video materials that supplement and enhance the text entries. The Video Connections entries are listed alphabetically and linked with relevant text entries. A COURSE IN MIRACLES ADIDAM AETHERIUS SOCIETY AGAINST THE STREAM BUDDHIST MEDITATION SOCIETY AHMADIYYA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AMISH AMMACHI AMWAY ANANDA CHURCH OF SELF REALIZATION ANANDA MARGA YOGA ANUSARA YOGA ANSWERS IN GENESIS APATHETIC AGNOSTICS ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH AND ENLIGHTENMENT ASSEMBLIES OF GOD AUM SHINRIKYO BAHA'I FAITH BAPS SHRI SWAMINARAYA MANDIR BENNY HINN MINISTRIES BETHEL BIBLE COLLEGE BIKRAM YOGA BRACO (THE GAZER) BRANCH DAVIDIANS BROWNSVILLE REVIVAL BURNING MAN FESTIVAL CALVARY CHAPEL CATHOLIC WORKERS MOVEMENT CHEN TAO CHOPRA CENTER FOR WELLBEING CHRIST OF THE OZARKS CHRIST THE REDEEMER CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH OF ALL WORLDS CHURCH OF ALMIGHTY GOD CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER…
SOJOURNERS SOJOURNERS TIMELINE 1970: A group of students, including Jim Wallis, Joe Roos, and Bob Sabath, at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School began meeting to discuss aspects of the church and social issues. 1971 (spring/summer): Members of the group from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School moved in together and began publishing a magazine, the Post-American. 1971 (fall): Members of the group moved into a house in Chicago, where other people, both men and women, began to join. 1972 (fall): Desiring to become more committed to the poor and their struggles, the group moved into two apartments in a low-income neighborhood north of Chicago. Over the next two years, many of the group went separate ways. 1975 (fall): A group of eighteen adults and two babies moved into two houses in a low-income…
LOVE ISRAEL FAMILY TIMELINE 1940 (August 25): Paul Erdmann was born in Berlin, Germany. 1947: Paul, his mother, and siblings moved to Seattle, Washington. 1968 (October): Paul and Marilyn Erdmann moved into a rental property near downtown Seattle. Within a few days, a couple (Clint and Rosemary), their son (Eric), and a Vietnam veteran (Neil) were also living in the property. 1971: The Church of Armageddon (Love Israel Family) Charter was written. 1972 (January): The deaths of two Love Israel Family members, Reverence and Solidarity, occurred after the men engaged in toluene usage. 1973: The Front Door Inn and Israel Brothers Construction Company began operation. 1973 (June): Dedication Israel (Kathe Crampton) was taken from the Love Israel Family by her mother and deprogrammer Ted Patrick. After undergoing “deprogramming,” she returned…
KORESHANS TIMELINE 1839 (October 18): Cyrus Reed Teed was born near Trout Creek, Delaware County, New York. His mother and father were Sarah Tuttle and Jesse Teed; later Cyrus would call attention to being the “root of Jesse” (King David). 1859: Teed married Fidelia M. Rowe, his second cousin. She died in 1885. 1860: Teed and his wife had a son, Douglas Arthur Teed, who became a noted artist. 1862: Teed enlisted in Company F, 127th New York Infantry of the New York volunteers as a corporal. 1863: On a march in Virginia, Teed suffered sunstroke, which led to paralysis of his left arm and leg. He was hospitalized in Alexandria, Virginia, for two months and then discharged from the Army. 1868: Teed graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of…
LAKEWOOD CHURCH TIMELINE 1921: John Osteen was born in Paris, Texas. 1944: John Osteen received his Master of Religious Education at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary. 1950: John Osteen became pastor at Central Baptist Church, Baytown, Texas. 1955: John Osteen resigned as pastor of Central Baptist Church. 1959: John and Dodie Osteen started Lakewood Church. 1961: John Osteen started John Osteen Evangelical Association, and began publishing Praise magazine. 1963: Joel Osteen was born in Houston. 1972: Lakewood Church became known as the “Oasis of Love.” 1979: Lakewood became a megachurch, with over 3,000 members. 1981: Dodie Osteen was diagnosed with liver cancer. 1983: Joel Osteen started Lakewood's television ministry through the John Osteen telecast. 1986: Dodie Osteen published her first book, Healed of Cancer. 1988: Lakewood Church expanded its worship center…
COWBOY CHURCH TIMELINE 1970's The first Christian cowboy communities began to form. 2000 (January) Ron Nolen founded the Cowboy Church of Ellis County in Waxahachie, Texas. 2001 CowboyChurch.net, the largest cowboy church directory, was created. 2001 Nolen resigned from the Cowboy Church of Ellis County. 2003 Nolen resigned as pastor from the Frontier Church of Ellis County in Waxahachie. 2003 (March) Nolen founded the Ranchhouse Cowboy Church in Maypearl. 2004 The Ranchhouse Cowboy Church formed the Ranchhouse School of Cowboy Planting. 2004 (November 8) Nolen was presented with the George W. Truett Award for Ministerial Excellence by Baylor University and The Baptist Standard for his evangelizing work. 2005 Iglesia Bautista de Los Vaqueros, the first Hispanic cowboy church in the Texas Fellowship of Cowboy Churches, was founded. 2006 (November 8)…
NOVA CANA TIMELINE 1947 (May 2): Six year old Angela Volpini received her first Holy Communion in the village of Casanova Staffora, Lombardy, Italy, in the Apennine mountain range. 1947 (June4): Angela, having turned seven on the June 2, experienced her first apparition of the Virgin Mary at a place called Bocco on the hill overlooking Casanova Staffora. 1947 (July 4): The second apparition occurred in which the vision confirmed that she is Mary. This established a series of apparitions on the fourth of the month over nine years. 1947 (October 4): Solar prodigies, reminiscent of other apparitions especially Fátima, were reported during the apparitions. 1947 (November or December): The diocese of Tortona, having noticed the large crowds gathering at Casanova Staffora, began an investigation. 1948 (April 18): The crucial…
ASSOCIATION OF VINEYARD CHURCHES TIMELINE 1934 (February 25): John Wimber was born in Kirksville, Missouri or Peoria, Illinois. c1940: Wimber received his first saxophone. c1946: Wimber and his mother moved to California. 1949: Wimber made his first professional appearance. 1955: Wimber met his future wife, Carol, a member of The Paramours, her prom band. The couple was married seven months later. The Paramours would work the Las Vegas circuit for the next five years. Wimber (as Johnny Wimber) played keyboards. 1960: The Wimbers faced a marriage crisis and separated. The separation ended when each cried out to God for help. The couple remarried in the Roman Catholic Church. They also attended a Friends Meeting and Bible studies. Carol began Bible studies in their home. 1962: The Wimbers recruited Bobby Hatfield…
THE WORLD CHANGERS CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (WCCI) TIMELINE 1962 (January): Creflo Dollar was born on January 28, 1962 in College Park, Georgia. 1980: Dollar began hosting Bible study sessions in his college dormitory room. 1981: Dollar established a ministry at West Georgia College. 1984: Dollar received a B.A. degree in Education from West Georgia College. 1984: Dollar began working at Brawner Psychiatric Institute in Atlanta. 1986: Dollar experienced the vision for the World Changers Ministries Christian Center (WCMCC). 1986: Dollar expanded his prayer group meetings and started to meet at the Kathleen Mitchell Elementary School. 1986 (December): Creflo Dollar and Taffi Bolton married. 1988: The WCMCC had outgrown the building and acquired the former Atlanta Christian Center Church in College Park, Georgia. 1991: The WCMCC built a new facility in College…
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD TIMELINE 1844 (October 22): William Miller's followers had expected Christ's return. The day became known as “The Great Disappointment.” 1860: Ellen G. White's movement took the name Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) at a conference at Battle Creek, Michigan. A group of dissenting congregations separated themselves from SDA. 1884: The separatist group took the name Church of God (Seventh Day). 1892 (July 31): Herbert Armstrong was born in Des Moines, Iowa. 1917 (July): Armstrong married third cousin Loma Dillon. 1926: Armstrong accepted seventh-day sabbath doctrine and began challenging other mainstream Christian beliefs. 1926-1927: Armstrong joined the Church of God congregation in Eugene, Oregon. 1928: Armstrong began preaching. 1930: Armstrong's fourth child, Garner Ted, was born. 1931: Armstrong was ordained by the Oregon Conference of the Church of God…