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The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) is an evangelical Christian denomination in the Radical Pietistic tradition. [1] The EFCA was formed in 1950 from the merger of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association. It is affiliated with the International Federation of Free Evangelical ...
In the 1880s, talks were held to determine whether or not to form a union of mission churches. Due to their desire to remain separate from other congregations, De fria vännerna ('the Free Friends') split from the majority in 1884, first known as the Swedish Evangelical Free Mission and later becoming the Evangelical Free Church of America. [6]
According to a census published by the association in 2023, it had 31 national member associations, with 700,000 members in 33 countries. [3]The two largest member federations are the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Free Church of America in the United States.
The Evangelical Free Church of Canada (EFCC) is an evangelical Christian denomination in Canada. ... the first revision since the Statement was first adopted in 1950. ...
Free Church Federation is a voluntary ... the first meeting of the Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches took place in October 1919. The two councils then ...
In 1887, the Swedish American Hans J. von Qualen of the Evangelical Free Church of America became the denomination's first missionary to China. After a short period of language study in Canton, von Qualen established the mission's first chapel in 1888 outside the city of Canton in Henan province as a base for evangelism.
Evangelical Association, a predecessor to the Evangelical United Brethren Church; Evangelical Covenant Church; Evangelical Church of North America (ECNA), a Wesleyan denomination also known as the Evangelical Church; Evangelical Free Church of America, formed in 1942; Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in ...
The Free Evangelical Church was formed as a result of the split in the Evangelical Church in New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands. Its leader was Raymond Chaelemagne a missionary in the Kanak people. The Paris Evangelical Missionary Society requested him to return to Paris, but numerous teachers and supporters requested him to stay. This ...