The International Churches of Christ (typically abbreviated to ICOC) is a body of co-operating non-denominational, religiously conservative, and racially integrated Christian congregations

Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

, an offshoot from the Mainline Churches of Christ. This group is known for and has a long history of showing charity to the poor.

The ICOC regards the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

 of the Bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

 as the supreme authority on doctrine, ecclesiastical structure, and moral beliefs.