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| Abbreviation | TJC |
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| Established | 1917 |
| Founder | Paul Wei (Human) |
| Founded at | Beijing, China |
| Type | Christian Church |
| Headquarters | Lakewood, California |
Area served | 60+ countries |
Membership (2013) | 1,500,000–3,000,000[1] |
Official language | English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese |
Key people | Paul Wei, Ling-Sheng Zhang, and Barnabas Zhang (early workers) |
Main organ | International Assembly |
| Affiliations | Nondenominational Christianity |
| Website | tjc |
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| Traditional Chinese | 真耶穌教會 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 真耶稣教会 | ||||||
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The True Jesus Church (TJC) is a non-denominational Christian Church that originated in Beijing, China, during the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century.[2] The True Jesus Church is currently one of the largest Christian groups in China and Taiwan,[3] as well as one of the largest independent churches in the world.[4]
- ^ Anderson 2013, pp. 133–134.
- ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2005). "True Jesus Church". Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Infobase. pp. 536–537. ISBN 978-0816069835.
- ^ Eric Patterson, Edmund Rybarczyk (2007). The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States. Lexington Books. p. 130. ISBN 978-0739155424.
- ^ Anderson, Allan (2013). An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107033993.. p. 50.