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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 ...
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 Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology. [5] The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 countries, with 62,516 members in the United States and 1,547,820 members worldwide. [6]
Community Evangelical Free Church of Soap Lake, Washington. The Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Free Church are denominations in the Radical Pietistic tradition that were founded by Scandinavian immigrants to the Americas (see Mission Friends). [20]
Some churches in Scotland and Northern Ireland, mainly of the splinter off Presbyterian tradition, have used the name 'Free Church'. The most important of these to persist at the present time is the Free Church of Scotland.The mainline Church of Scotland is the national church which is Presbyterian and the mother kirk for Presbyterianism all over the world, and is not part of the "Free Church".
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is an evangelical denomination with Pietist Lutheran roots. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people [ 5 ] in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents.
An earlier survey conducted in 2012 found that 92 percent of evangelicals agree it is a Christian's duty to help those in poverty and 45 percent attend a church which has a fund or scheme that helps people in immediate need, and 42 percent go to a church that supports or runs a foodbank. 63 percent believe in tithing, and so give around 10 ...
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), formerly the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, [2] was founded in 1998 as a body of churches that hold to Reformed theology. [3] Member churches include those from Presbyterian, Reformed, and Reformed Baptist backgrounds.