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Calvary Baptist Church is a diverse and historic Baptist church in the Penn Quarter neighborhood in Washington, D.C. affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, the Alliance of Baptists, the District of Columbia Baptist Convention,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Directory of Churches )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=About Calvary )〕 and the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 AWAB Member Congregations )〕 It severed ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in July 2012. Since 2003, Calvary's Senior Pastor has been Rev. Dr. Amy Butler. ==Mission and Congregation== Calvary focuses on its missions as an urban church in the heart of a great city. Its vision statement is:
Recently, this commitment has manifested in Calvary in its relationship with the Latino, and especially Salvadoran, population by introducing bilingual services and partnering with a church in El Salvador, led by Rev. Edgar Palacios. Calvary has also been involved in immigration reform efforts.〔 Members of Calvary also were active on the issue of marriage equality. In the past, this commitment has taken many forms. In the 1983, Calvary founded the Calvary Women's Shelter, now Calvary Women's Services, the first women's homeless shelter in Washington Metro area. Calvary's location near Chinatown has led to extensive outreach to the Chinese and Burmese communities. Calvary runs a summer camp, Camp Fraser〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Calvary Baptist Church )〕 near Great Falls, Virginia. Calvary has played a significant role in Baptist life as the founding church of the Northern Baptist Convention (now the American Baptist Churches USA) in 1907, a leading church of the Baptist Sunday School movement at the turn of the century,〔 a model for women's Sunday School, and is unique in Baptist life for having simultaneously had the President of the American Baptists,〔 then pastor Clarence Cranford, and the Southern Baptists, former Democratic Member of Congress from Arkansas Brooks Hays, as members of the congregation. In 1955, it became the first white Baptist church in Washington, DC to admit an African-American member. Calvary's sanctuary building was designed by the US-German architect Adolf Cluss, who also designed a number of other leading buildings in Washington. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Calvary Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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