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An Evangelical Free church in Superior, Nebraska. The word Free in the Evangelical Free Church's name refers to its congregational polity, meaning each member church is autonomous, and to its history, meaning that the free churches were free from state control. [11] The governing body of the EFCA is the Leadership Conference held annually. [12]
The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches ( CREC ), formerly the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches, [ 1] was founded in 1998 as a body of churches that hold to Reformed theology. [ 2] Member churches include those from Presbyterian, Reformed, and Reformed Baptist backgrounds. The CREC has over a hundred member churches in the ...
The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations ( AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate ...
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]
The World Communion of Reformed Churches ( WCRC) is the largest association of Reformed ( Calvinist) churches in the world. It has 230 member denominations in 108 countries, together claiming an estimated 80 million people, [ 1] thus being the fourth-largest Christian communion in the world after the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church ...
The Metropolitan Community Church ( MCC ), also known as the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches ( UFMCC ), is an international LGBT-affirming mainline Protestant Christian denomination. There are 222 member congregations in 37 countries, and the fellowship has a specific outreach to members of the LGBT community.
The Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches ( CEEC) is a Christian convergence communion established in 1995 within the United States of America. [1] [2] With a large international presence in five provinces and seven U.S. dioceses, most of its churches and missions are spread throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West regions, and South ...
St. Mark's Anglican Church, Vero Beach, Florida, is a parish of the Diocese of the Eastern United States in the Anglican Province of America. Anglicanism in general has historically viewed itself as a via media between the Reformed tradition and the Lutheran tradition, and after the Oxford Movement, certain clerics have sought a balance of the emphases of Catholicism and Protestantism, while ...