Unity Fellowship Church Movement
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Unity Fellowship Church Movement (UFCM) is a Los Angeles, California
based Protestant Christian denomination. It was founded in 1982 as Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles by Reverend (now Archbishop) Carl Bean
as a liberal mainline church that is explicitly welcoming of LGBT
African Americans. The church received non-profit status from the state government of California in 1985, and the UFCM was founded in 1990 as a full-fledged non-profit organization
for the establishment and governance of more churches.
Jurisdiction 1
Jurisdiction 2
Jurisdiction 3
Jurisdiction 4
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
based Protestant Christian denomination. It was founded in 1982 as Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles by Reverend (now Archbishop) Carl Bean
Carl Bean
Carl Bean is the founding prelate of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a liberal protestant denomination that is particularly welcoming of lesbian, gay and bisexual African Americans...
as a liberal mainline church that is explicitly welcoming of LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
African Americans. The church received non-profit status from the state government of California in 1985, and the UFCM was founded in 1990 as a full-fledged non-profit organization
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
for the establishment and governance of more churches.
Affiliates
Today, the UFCM counts 17 affiliated churches:Jurisdiction 1
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church (the mother church) - Los Angeles
- Unity Fellowship Church, Long Beach
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, Riverside
- Unity Fellowship Church, San Diego
Jurisdiction 2
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, New York City
- Unity Fellowship of Christ Church, Buffalo
- Unity Fellowship Church (Rochester, NY)
- Unity Fellowship Church, Detroit
Jurisdiction 3
- Liberaton in Truth Unity Fellowship Church (Newark, NJ)
- Unity Fellowship Church New Brunswick (New Brunswick, NJ)
- Unity Fellowship Church Philadelphia
- Unity Fellowship Church Baltimore
- Unity Fellowship Church Columbia,MD
Jurisdiction 4
- Unity Fellowship Church Charlotte
- Unity Fellowship Church of Washington, D.C.
- Unity Fellowship Church Charleston, SC
- Unity Fellowship Church Atlanta