Charity Ministries

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Charity Ministries, also called Charity Christian Fellowship, is a Conservative Anabaptist network of churches that was formed in 1982 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1][2]

As with other conservative Anabaptist Christian churches, the Charity Christian Fellowship seeks to emulate early Christianity and practices plain dress, believer's baptism, "feet washing, the devotional head covering, the holy kiss, non-swearing of oaths and practicing Biblical Nonresistance (As described in Matthew 5:45)."

Many members of the Charity Christian Fellowship have roots in other Anabaptist denominations that practice plain dress, though their emphasis on evangelism has led to individuals from non-Anabaptist Christian backgrounds becoming a part of the Charity Christian Fellowship as well.[3]

  1. ^ "Charity Christian Fellowship - Church". Charity Christian Fellowship. July 2020. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  2. ^ Donald B. Kraybill, C. Nelson Hostetter: Anabaptist World USA, Scottdale PA, 2001, page 159.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stephen Scott 1996, page 102 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).