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==Organizations== ===Belmont Avenue Church of Christ=== [[Don Finto]] became involved with the Belmont Avenue Church of Christ (now simply Belmont Church), an ailing old inner city church in [[Nashville, Tennessee]],{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} YUS on [[Music Row]] between the public housing and several universities: Peabody, [[Vanderbilt University|Vanderbilt]] and [[Belmont College]] etc. By the summer of 1971, the membership roll had dropped to about 75 elderly members. The church had mainstream roots in the a cappella [[Churches of Christ]], but was transformed and firmly placed in the Jesus movement by an influx of countercultural Christians. Seating ran out, with people sitting on the windowsills or on the stage. It was not rare to find them walking the worst parts{{clarify|date=July 2022}} of Lower Broadway witnessing to [[prostitutes]] and addicts. The concerts that were held at the Koinonia Coffee House on weekends helped east coast [[Christian music]] to grow in popularity.{{sfnmp|1a1=Smith|1y=2020|2a1=Payne|2y=2024}} The house band was called Dogwood, and various musicians regularly appeared on stage, such as Dogwood, [[Amy Grant]],{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} [[Brown Bannister]],{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} [[Chris Christian]], [[Don Francisco (Christian musician)|Don Francisco]], Fireworks, and Annie and Steve Chapman.{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} ===Calvary Chapel=== [[File:CalvaryChapelLogo.jpg|thumb|Calvary Chapel, one of the leading churches during this movement]] Chuck Smith, founder and pastor of [[Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa]], led with expositional verse-by-verse Bible studies. While he taught that the gifts seen and described in The New Testament were at work today there were Biblical restrictions on the exercise of those gifts among believers in their services. He baptized members in the Pacific Ocean. Smith was one of the few pastors who welcomed in the hippies who after coming to faith, eventually became known as Jesus people, and thus allowed for the dramatic future growth of a network of affiliate churches.{{sfnmp|1a1=Smith|1y=2020|2a1=Ream|2y=2024}} ===Fellowship House Church=== Steve Freeman and others opened the Kingdom Come Christian Coffee House in [[Greenville, South Carolina]], in 1971. Each Saturday night Jesus People gathered for worship, songs and fellowship. In 1972, several people who were highly involved in the Kingdom Come graduated from high schools and dispersed in several colleges and universities throughout the Southeastern United States and started a Fellowship House Church.{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} Maynard Pittendreigh, Jay Holmes, and Freeman each established one at [[Erskine College]], the [[University of South Carolina]], and [[Furman University]] respectively. Leadership moved from Steve Freeman to a charismatic preacher named [[Erskine Holt]], a self-described apostle of the movement who lived in Florida. By 1973, nearly every campus throughout Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia had Fellowship House Churches. These generally died out by 1977, with many of the members moving to more traditional campus ministries. However, many moved onto similar ministries in such organizations as Calvary Chapel.{{sfnp|Ream|2024}} ===Jesus Army=== In the UK, the [[Jesus Army]] (also known as the Jesus Fellowship Church and the Bugbrooke Community) was among the groups most influenced by the Jesus movement, embracing (former) hippies, bikers and drug addicts, among others. Leaders and members of the Jesus Fellowship committed abuse of children and vulnerable adults, with several receiving custodial sentences.<ref name=northamptonchron-20170918>{{cite news |url=https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/special-report-alleged-victim-of-historic-abuse-reveals-traumatic-childhood-growing-up-in-jesus-army-1-8155579 |title=SPECIAL REPORT: Alleged victim of historic abuse reveals traumatic childhood growing up in Jesus Army |last=Lynch |first=Paul |website=Northampton Chronicle |date=18 September 2017 |accessdate=19 July 2019}}</ref> The Jesus Fellowship Community Trust closed in December 2020 following the scandal, and issued a Closure Statement including an unreserved apology for the abuse that occurred in the Jesus Fellowship Church (JFC) and the residential New Creation Christian Community (NCCC).<ref name=closure>{{Cite report|url=https://jesus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Jesus-Fellowship-Redress-Scheme-Closure-Statement-November-2021.pdf|title=Closure Statement|author=Martin Desborough, Chair of Trustees|publisher=Jesus Fellowship Community Trust|date=November 2021|access-date=July 16, 2022|archive-date=January 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220119112815/https://jesus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Jesus-Fellowship-Redress-Scheme-Closure-Statement-November-2021.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ===Shiloh Youth Revival Centers=== The Shiloh Youth Revival Centers movement was the largest Jesus People communal movement in the United States in the 1970s. Founded by John Higgins in 1968 as a small communal house in Costa Mesa, California, the movement quickly grew into a very large movement catering mostly to disaffected college-age youth. There were 100,000 people involved and 175 communal houses established during its lifespan.{{sfnp|Smith|2020}} Two years after the movement's founding, Higgins and some of the core members of the movement bought {{convert|90|acre|m2}} of land near [[Dexter, Oregon]] and built a new headquarters which they called "The Land".{{sfnp|Simpson|2019}}
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