Peter had trained as a Presbyterian minister but took a job preaching at a small Congregational church in Milton, Mass.

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That's the hope of many like Reverend Libby Tigner of the First Congregational Church of Long Beach, one of those who introduced the resolution.

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Benjamin Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told the congregation of the Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn that the civil rights group is hearing from its members who are NYPD officers.

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The other applicants in the case were the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Congregational Union, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, the Association of Baptist Churches, the Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches and Christian Camping International.

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Local church groups of a few dozen families determine congregational lifestyle rules and there is no single authority that brings together the 2, 056 churches located in 30 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario.

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