New Testament Christian Churches of America (NTCC) is an independent Pentecostal, trinitarian, full gospel, dispensational, holiness denomination with its main headquarters in Graham, Washington. Each individual church location is called New Testament Christian Church.

NTCC owns campgound facilities in Santa Fe, Missouri, which hosts its ministerial meetings.^[1][2] The church also operates servicemen's homes near American military bases in the United States, England, Germany, Republic of Korea, and Japan.^[3] For a fee, they provide unmarried soldiers a home style alternative to barracks life. It also is affiliated with New Testament Christian Seminary, a non-accredited training school. Almost all of New Testament Christian Seminary alumni/alumnae are prior military, and/or prior military spouses.

As of March 2009, NTCC has less than 3,500 constituents (excluding licensed ministers, ordained ministers, seminary students, and their respective families), and not more than 116 churches/preaching points.^[4] NTCC sponsors its seminary graduates as missionaries. NTCC's official website lists its global outreach, via missionary effort to foreign nationals, as four churches in the Philippines, and one in Panama. ^[5]

New Testament Christian Churches of America was incorporated in 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri.^[6] Founded as New Testament Church of God (NTCG), the NTCC was begun by Pentecostal Church of God (PCG) missionary to the Philippines Rodger Wilsong Davis. Davis left the PCG after perceiving an erosion in holiness in PCG and after his request to start a PCG Bible College in St. Louis was denied. Soon after leaving PCG, Rodger Davis founded Midwestern Bible Institute (MBI)^[7][8] in St Louis MO, later known as New Testament Christian (NTC) College,^[9] and currently known as New Testament Christian Seminary (NTCS). ^[10][11]

For the first five years of its existence, this church affiliated itself with the Independent Pentecostal, or Free Holiness movement.^[12] However, when NTCC adopted a more relaxed standard regarding the issues of divorce and remarriage, which distanced them from the group, they were denied further fellowship with this movement. The church leadership eventually permanently severed their fellowship ties with all outside churches, ministers, and ministries. This independent denomination further distanced themselves from all other denominations by requiring only their own licensed and ordained seminary graduates may minister in their churches, and may not minister in any churches outside their denomination. ^[13]

In 1984, NTCC denominational headquarters were moved from St. Louis to Graham, Washington, which is southeast of Tacoma, Washington. New Testament Christian Seminary operated in St. Louis for 18 years, but in 1987 its operations and student dormitories were also relocated to Graham.^[14] That same year, its name was changed to the current name of New Testament Christian Church.^[15]

In 2004 the NTCC experienced a schism when a segment of the ministers and constituents withdrew and formed House of Prayer Christian Church (HOP), which is composed of military-oriented churches, servicemen's homes, and is headquartered in Hinesville, Georgia, and patterned after the NTCC model.

• New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc - official website
• New Testament Christian Churches exposed
• "The News Tribune" of Tacoma Washington's Article on NTCC - 1999
• NTCC College Handbook - 1980
• NTCC College Handbook - 1992
• NTCC Seminary Handbook - 2006
• NTCC Bylaws - 1996
• NTCC land gift to Rev. Michael C. Kekel - the founder's son-in-law
• More documentation on land gift to Rev. Michael C. Kekel
• Rev. Michael C. Kekel's weblog (current CEO of NTCC)
• New FACTNet NTCC forum
• Old FACTNet NTCC forum
• Semi-Annual Conference Invitation Letter
• [13] [14] NTCG's 1969 Incorporation Document(s)
• [15] [16] NTCC's 1987 Incorporation Document(s)
• NTCC's 1988 NOT-FOR-PROFIT Registration report
• [17] [18] MBI's 1969 Fictitious Creation Document

• New Testament Christian Churches of America, Inc - official website
• NTCC exposed, a sight documenting abuses within the church, written by former members