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
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhēn Yēsū Jiàohuì

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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