The goal of this site is to share accurate location and contact information for “churches of Christ” worldwide. Generally, these churches --in the United States-- are distinctive with respect to certain Christian worship practices.
Of course exceptions and variations exist, certainly across language and national boundaries. ChurchZip does NOT include all churches of any kind or type.
As a service to the majority of users visiting this site, we limit our scope to churches world-wide having all of following practices:
You may have noticed some important changes recently made. Without taking anything away, we have added 10 new information elements to each record to help our users find what they are looking for.
These additional information elements aim to fully disclose uncommon but evolving church practices among listed churches.
We are expecting churches to self-identify their own records with respect to these questions of worship practice. Of course we scour the web daily to find updates to our records.
These new facts captured are:
Earle West, Franklin, TN
ehwest@gmail.com 908-216-5054
CLICK HERE TO ADD NEW RECORDS
These new pieces of information are intended to save people time in finding what they are looking for.
This information therefore is absolutely "unofficial" and should only be considered a casual work, subject to errors and omissions of all kinds, and numerous ad-hoc contributors. At the same time, I would very much like to receive corrections, and you can submit them yourself at any time. To correct the information for a particular church, display it in the search list or map, and click on "Edit" on the record to provide your changes.
We vet all submissions within a few days.
To add records CLICK HERE TO ADD NEW RECORDS. This procedure attempts to affix the location before adding details to the new record. This enables us to include listings of churches in countries not having standardized street addresses. It is my goal to have the largest and most accurate directory of churches of Christ, worldwide.
Users should be aware that we are unable to know about any of the more subjective loves, beliefs, teaching, theology, fellowships, conventions, institutional affinity, and/or periodical alignment held by the church leader(s) or any members of any church. Moreover, the criteria above may very well be met by churches not using the nom de guerre "Church of Christ." Some church names we have seen include "The Lord's Church," and "The Way." We have also seen numerous alternatives in non-English-speaking countries. We have no specific criteria regarding a church's provenance, restoration history, or state of fellowship among other churches.
There is no cost for users or churches to utilize this site! Please do not ever PAY someone to correct their information.
Updates and new records may be input on-line at any time by anyone. However, all records are quality-checked for very basic consistency before publishing. Errors do get through, and email is a good way to fix any point of confusion.
In the fall of 2000 a significant amount of US directory data was seeded in into the project by Dennis Kelly, Searcy, AR, USA. Eighteen months later, non-US data was provided by Mac Lynn, Nashville, TN, USA.
In 2002, Salvador Cariga, The Philippines, Roy Davison, Alken, Belgium, Randy Matheny, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Theodore Lucas, India, Graham Fisher, the United Kingdom, Kim Voraritskul, Thailand, and Fielden Allison, Kenya provided guidance and/or data for the project.
In 2003, an (unamed-by-request) team of people have provided a very large database (20,000 records, since reduced to 16,000) of churches of Christ in India. In early 2004, Wendell Broom provided to us a copy of his nearly 4,000 (since reduced to 3,600) churches of Christ in Nigeria in 2004. During their May, 2004 visit to the US, Lendal and Peggy Wilks brought over their list of 107 churches in Mozambique and more than 1,700 churches in Malawi. In July, 2008, Bren White provided a list of 319 French-speaking Churches of Christ around the world, which is the work of Barry Baggott, Doyle Key, and Bren.
In February, 2010, Ruth Zimmerman, Ontario, Canada, provided detailed records for 175 congregations in Papua New Guinea.
All records, from every source, are generally vetted and matched to our global database of latitude and longitudes for the nearest poplulated place, based on a US government gazetteer. Starting November 30, 2014, we are replacing most all of our lat/long values with new, much more accurate, values from Google. Thanks to Matt Prewett of the Saturn Road church of Christ in Garland, TX for providing funds for providing county-level data for the entire US and all of the Canadian postal codes.
The United States government has also provided a significant amount of free geographic data that is needed to provide the unique "find-within-radius" feature of the site worldwide.
The data these folks provided is protected under United States copyright law, and is used here by permission.
ChurchZip , a privately held for-profit corporation, owns all of the software, data, presentation, intellectual property, and patents pending that are embodied in the system at this time. Copyright protections are asserted to prevent economic and/or other forms of abuse. The same underlying software system is currently used for commercial purposes for SkiWhere.com.
Of course, this site would have very limited value if it were not for people like you, who silently provide an incredible non-stop stream of updates for everyone to share. Please check out all the listings you know about. Click here to update a listing right now!
We openly list all other known similar directories and occasionally use them to verify new or changed listings, and to harvest new listings from people who post to those sites. If you know of other relevant directories, please write. Check our list of other directories.
The good news is that hundreds of thousands of seekers are served with information about the congregation nearest them.
ChurchZip is a ministry, not a business.
Our goal is to make it easy to find the church of Christ wherever someone might want to find one. By offering up each congregation's own local web site, we encourage further inquiry into each congregation's practices.
ChurchZip does NOT include all churches of any kind or type.
We rely on leaders within each congregation to tell us whether or not they fit the characteristics above. We ask no questions about what anyone 'believes,' but we do ask about what is practiced. We also don't consider "theatrical" events of any kind to be defined as a worship service.
Please write if you know of any listing incorrectly identified in this category. We can probably point you to other directories, should this one fail to meet your needs.
We browse all possible sources on the Internet and elsewhere to check for accuracy and changes. Trustworthy directory operators are always willing to make corrections and/or additions you provide to them. Don't EVER pay someone to correct their own records. We welcome your corrections and/or new records. Freely we receive, freely we give.
Help Wanted!
We are always looking for contributions of data describing churches around the world. If you have directory information we don't have, or have updates, join the effort!
If you have any direct knowledge of mission outposts or churches of Christ in countries outside of the United States, we would be pleased to update our records accordingly. If your congregation is involved in funding such outposts, your good stewardship may well lead you to provide that information for all to share.
Our goal is to produce and operate the most accurate directory of churches of Christ in the world. Consistent with this goal, we leverge the most advanced technology available, periodically updating both the rendering technology, and automated harvesting of data from all possible sources, including other directories of churches of Christ.