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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 ...
The EFCC operates national and international mission arms known as ServeCanada and ServeBeyond. The international mission was previously known as Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission (EFCCM). In 1990, there were 10,000 members in Canada. [5] According to a denomination census released in 2023, it claimed 145 churches. [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 Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (FEC) is an evangelical body of Christians with an Amish Mennonite heritage that is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. It contains 46 churches located in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Worship service at Chauveau Evangelical Church in Quebec City. In 1928, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec (led by Thomas Todhunter Shields) broke away from the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, while the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches was formed in 1933. These two merged in 1953 to form the FEBCC.
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 ...
The largest member church is the Uniting Church in Sweden, with approximately 85,000 members. The free churches belong to various Protestant denominations: Baptists, Methodists, Reformed, Pentecostal etc. Most of the free church denominations in Sweden began during the nineteenth century when an evangelical revival broke out.
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.