FINAL WARNING: Setting the Stage for Destruction
identified as a Communist by the House Committee on Un-American
Activities. In 1908, they reorganized and changed their name to the
Federal Council of Churches.Raised as a Baptist, Rockefeller began noticing all of the competition
between Protestant groups, and after World War II, got involved with
the Interchurch World Movement, contributing over $1 million to its
initial budget of $40 million, and traveling the country on a national
speaking tour. It soon went under. Rockefeller was a well-known
supporter of evangelist Billy Sunday, and forty years later, donated
$75,000 to Billy Graham’s New York crusade. He also donated $26
million to build the Riverside Church, which opened in 1930, which
was pastored by Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick (NCC leader, former
President of the Rockefeller Foundation, who didn’t believe in the deity
of Christ or the virgin birth; and was the brother of Raymond Fosdick,
a member of the CFR), who had formerly been the pastor at the old
First Presbyterian Church at 11th Street and 5th Avenue in New York.
The interdenominational church was located on Riverside Drive in
Morningside Heights, a block from Columbia University, and across
from the Union Theological Seminary (to whom Rockefeller
contributed $1,083,333 in 1922). He was also a large contributor to the
World Council of Churches.Rockefeller provided the land (across the street from the Riverside
Church, which it is connected to via an underground tunnel) for the 19-
story triangular-shaped Interchurch Center (475 Riverside Drive, suite
880) that serves as the headquarters for the National Council of
Churches in New York City.The membership of the National Council of Churches of Christ in
America consists of 36 Protestant, Anglican, and Orthodox
denominations. They are the biggest advocate of the ecumenical
movement in the country, having well over 140,000 churches, and
nearly 50,000,000 members:African Methodist Episcopal Church (2,500,000 members), 12th
largest U.S. Church
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1,296,662), 20th largest
U.S. Church
Alliance of Baptists