Laymen's Home Missionary Movement

The lay - Home Missionary Movement is an international Christian religious community. It was founded in 1919 by the American Paul SL Johnson. The community belongs to the so-called Bible Students movement and has its origins in the schism of the International Bible Students ( Jehovah's Witnesses ) of the Watchtower Society after the death of Charles Taze Russell in 1916.

After Russell's death, the presidency, or the leadership of the Watchtower Society and the associated religious community to Joseph Franklin Rutherford went on. Johnson and others were released because of their opposition to the Rutherford majority elected by this from their duties in society. This fact by no means accepting, tried to, as alleged Fort leader of the work of Russell, a certain allegiance to collect such entbundenden. This group of opponents in turn divided into groups.

The lay - home missionary movement is peculiar to the teaching of the various classes of mankind, which are depending on the degree of consecration and the time at which they were appointed, distinguished. At the top is the "little flock", which was completed with the founder of the Community Johnson. Other classes are: The large crowd (crown loser or palm support ), the Altwürdigen that young worthy, the devotees Epiphania bearing members, Israel, the Restitutionisten and the repentant fallen angels.

According to the annual report of 2006, there are about 16,000 members of this community of faith around the world.