Basic Information

The Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) was founded in 1882 by Henry R. Holsinger and former members of the Church of the Brethren. During the 1930s, a group supportive of a dispensational fundamentalist doctrinal position left the church to found the National Fellowship of Brethren Churches, now the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.

History

	Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) (1882)	continuedBrethren Church (Ashland, Ohio)
		split into National Fellowship of Brethren Churches (1939)

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	124	119	-5 (-4.0%)
Adherents	16,331	16,266	-65 (-0.4%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]