Texas Christian Missionary Fellowship
Texas Christian Missionary Fellowship (TCMF) is a constituency group of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest. TCMF is divided into five districts for a total of 44 Afro-American congregations.
For more information, please contact Rev. Derry Henry, President, at 214-275-7229 or email at dchrhhtlf@aol.com
The Texas Christian Missionary Fellowship (TCMF) is an integral part of the program and structure of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest. It is one of the constituency groups like Christian Men’s Fellowship, Christian Women’s Fellowship, and Christian Youth Fellowship, has voting membership on the governing board of the CCSW, has its own annual assembly, as well as representatives on committees and task forces of CCSW. Each elects its own officers and reports to the regional church at each regional assembly.
Historical Background
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1881 |
First Annual Session Texas Christian Missionary Convention. |
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1886 |
Texas Christian Missionary Society was established - Texas Convention of Christian Churches (White) began annual meetings. |
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1901 |
TCMC split forming the Northeast Convention. |
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1906 |
Anti's split led to formation of the Church of Christ |
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1922 |
TCMC and Northeast Convention came back together and reorganized into the United Texas Christian Missionary Convention - which incorporated October 17, 1922. (The word "United" was dropped in usage through the ensuing years) |
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1948 |
Unification of work of the Christian Church in Texas was proposed at the Amarillo convention. |
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1955 |
The Texas Board of Christian Churches (TBCC) was established by the merger of TCMS, Texas Board of Religious Education, and the Texas Christian Men's Fellowship |
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1955 |
A joint study committee on negro work was established by the TCMC and the TBCC |
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1956 |
A director of Negro work was employed as executive director of TCMC and staff member of TBCC (The first State or Region of the Christian Church in America to employ a black person as executive staff) |
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1957 |
A part-time evangelist was employed |
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1958 |
At the Houston Convention, a 9-member Commission was authorized to plan for more complete unification |
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1960 |
Lubbock Convention - continued the Commission |
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1961 |
Commission was enlarged to include: Texas Christian University, TBCC, Jarvis Christian College, Christian Women's Fellowship, Juliette Fowler Homes, and TCMS Permanent Fund. |
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1962 |
New Structure was proposed with each of the agencies becoming an integral part with voting privileges. |
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1963 |
TCMC voted dissolution with a simultaneous creation of TEXAS CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP as a part of the program and structure of the TACC. The function of this fellowship being to provide fellowship and leader development, to see to the representation of the churches formerly served by the TCMC, and to insure the continuation of program services to the negro churches. TCMF was given authority and responsibility to develop for itself rules of operating procedure on similar lines as the CWF of the Association, in keeping with the constitution. |
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1963 |
At the Texas Convention of Christian Churches in San Antonio, the TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES came into being with the adoption of the original Constitution and by-laws. |
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1964 |
Amendments were made at the Houston assembly |
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1966 |
(Wichita Falls Assembly) Amendments were made |
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1967 |
(San Antonio Assembly) Amendments were made |
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1968 |
(Austin Assembly) Amendments were made |
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1969 |
(Lubbock Assembly) Amendment - proposed to change the name to: CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) IN TEXAS |
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1970 |
(Fort Worth Assembly) Name change amendment adopted |
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1972 |
(Corpus Christi Assembly) Amendments were adopted |
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1974 |
(Dallas Assembly) Constitution and by-laws were adopted to merge what was heretofore known as the CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) in NEW MEXICO and the CHRISTIAN CHURCH (DISCIPLES OF CHRIST) in Texas. |
The regional manifestation of the Christian Church denomination since 1974 has been known as the "Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Southwest." The Texas Christian Missionary Fellowship is one of its constituency groups.

