The Alliance (C&MA) is a light-bearing, Jesus-centered missions and church-planting movement with the deeper life at its heart. Rather than just a denomination intent on building its own kingdom, we're a people who "go." How it all started: The Alliance movement began in the 1880s when our founder, Dr. A.B. Simpson, witnessed the physical and spiritual plight of New York City's homeless, downtrodden, and marginalized populations. Moved by his great love for Jesus and lost people, Simpson devoted his life to sharing Jesus' light-in word and deed-with the city and, ultimately, the nations. Our calling remains unchanged. We are committed to being points of light-sharing good news to the poor, comforting the brokenhearted, proclaiming freedom for the captives and releasing prisoners from d