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KONKO-KYO FAITH -  Konkōkyō or just Konkō, is a new religion of Japanese origin.  It is Sectarian Shintō as a member of the Kyoha Shintō Rengokai (Association of Sectarian Shinto).   It is a syncretic, henotheistic and pantheistic religion, which worships the universe as the deity Tenchi Kane No Kami, the Golden Kami of Heaven and Earth.  Tenchi Kane No Kami is also referred to as Kami, The Principle Parent, Kami-Sama or the Parent God. Although mentioned as 'he' the Kami is neither male or female.

MESSIANIC JEWISH CHURCH - Messianic Judaism is a movement that combines Christianity—most importantly, the Christian belief that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah—with elements of Judaism and Jewish tradition.

LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD -  The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), often referred to simply as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.  With 2.1 million members, it is both the eighth-largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S., the largest being Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

CHURCH OF NAZARENE -  The Western group was the Church of the Nazarene founded in October 1895 in Los Angeles, California by Dr. Phineas F. Bresee, a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Dr Joseph Pomeroy Widney, a Methodist physician, and the second president of the University of Southern California.

CHURCH OF GOD -  The (Original) Church of God is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination located mostly in the Southeastern United States. Its origins can be traced to a small meeting of Christians at the Barney Creek Meeting House in Monroe County, Tennessee in 1886.  

EPISCOPAL CHURCH -  The history of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America has its origins in the Church of England, a church which stresses its continuity with the ancient Western church and claims to maintain apostolic succession.  Its close links to the Crown led to its reorganization on an independent basis in the 1780s.  There are two official names of the Episcopal Church specified in its constitution:  The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA) and The Episcopal Church (TEC).  The latter is the more commonly used name.

UNIFICATION CHURCH -  The Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, founded as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, and commonly called the Unification Church, is a new religious movement founded in South Korea in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon.

LUTHER ROSE (LUTHERANISM) -  The Luther seal or Luther rose is a widely recognized symbol for Lutheranism.  It was the seal that was designed for Martin Luther at the behest of John Frederick of Saxony in 1530, while Luther was staying at the Coburg Fortress during the Diet of Augsburg.   Lazarus Spengler, to whom Luther wrote his interpretation of the Rose below, sent Luther a drawing of this seal.  Luther saw it as a compendium or expression of his theology and faith, which he used to authorize his correspondence.

NEW APOSTOLIC CHURCH -  The New Apostolic Church (NAC) is a chiliastic church, originated from the Catholic Apostolic Church.  The church has existed since 1863 in Germany and since 1897 in the Netherlands.  It came about from the schism in Hamburgin 1863, when it demerged from the Catholic Apostolic Church, which itself started in the 1830s as a renewal movement in, among others, the Anglican Church and Church of Scotland.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH -  The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863.  In 1831, a Baptist convert, William Miller, was asked by a Baptist to preach in their church and began to preach that the Second Advent of Jesus would occur somewhere between March 1843 and March 1844, based on his interpretation of Daniel 8:14.