True Jesus Church

True Jesus Church
AbbreviationTJC
Established1917 (1917)
FounderHoly Spirit
Founded atBeijing, China
TypeChristian Church
HeadquartersLakewood, CA
Area served
70+ countries
Membership (2013)
1,500,000–3,000,000[1]
Official language
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese
Key people
Paul Wei, Ling-Sheng Zhang, and Barnabas Zhang (early workers)
Main organ
International Assembly
AffiliationsNondenominational Christianity
Websitetjc.org
True Jesus Church
Traditional Chinese真耶穌教會
Simplified Chinese真耶稣教会

The True Jesus Church (TJC) is a non-denominational Christian Church that originated in Beijing, China, during the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century.[2] The True Jesus Church is currently one of the largest Christian groups in China and Taiwan,[3] as well as one of the largest independent churches in the world.[4]

  1. ^ Anderson 2013, pp. 133–134.
  2. ^ Melton, J. Gordon (2005). "True Jesus Church". Encyclopedia of Protestantism. Infobase. pp. 536–537. ISBN 978-0816069835.
  3. ^ Eric Patterson, Edmund Rybarczyk (2007). The Future of Pentecostalism in the United States. Lexington Books. p. 130. ISBN 978-0739155424.
  4. ^ Anderson, Allan (2013). An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1107033993.. p. 50.

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