{"id":35399,"date":"2013-07-25T04:53:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alternativejonestown.com\/?page_id=35399"},"modified":"2014-08-19T23:24:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:24:17","slug":"q-denomination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=35399","title":{"rendered":"Was Peoples Temple associated with a denomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Jones began his career as a preacher in both Methodist and Pentecostal churches, and while the first church he opened in 1954 \u2013 Community Unity \u2013 was not formally affiliated with a denomination, it included elements of both those religious traditions. Community Unity became Wings of Deliverance \u2013 initially also without denominational affiliation \u2013 but the latter became known as Peoples Temple about the time that Jones was <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/AssembliesOrd.pdf\">ordained<\/a> as a minister in the Independent Assemblies of God.<\/p>\n<p>In part at the urging of Ross Case, a Disciples of Christ minister who became one of Jones\u2019 assistant pastors, Peoples Temple applied to and was accepted in the Disciples of Christ in 1960. Jones received his <a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/DOCord.pdf\">ordination<\/a> in that denomination four years later, in February 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The Temple remained in good standing with the Disciples of Christ throughout the rest of its history, and was the largest denominational contributor in 1978.\u00a0<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Jones began his career as a preacher in both Methodist and Pentecostal churches, and while the first church he opened in 1954 \u2013 Community Unity \u2013 was not formally affiliated with a denomination, it included elements of both those religious traditions. Community Unity became Wings of Deliverance \u2013 initially also without denominational affiliation \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":35361,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60976,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35399\/revisions\/60976"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}