Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury
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Evangelical Free Church Association. These two<br />
denominations, representing 275 congregations,<br />
came together at a merger conference in 1950.<br />
The Evangelical Free Church <strong>of</strong> America is an<br />
association <strong>of</strong> local, autonomous churches across<br />
the United States <strong>and</strong> Canada, blended together by<br />
common principles, policies <strong>and</strong> practices. A 12-<br />
point statement addresses the major doctrines but<br />
also provides for differences <strong>of</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing on<br />
minor issues <strong>of</strong> faith <strong>and</strong> practice.<br />
Overseas outreach includes 500 missionaries<br />
serving in 31 countries.<br />
Headquarters<br />
901 East 78th St., Minneapolis, MN 55420-1300,<br />
Tel. (952)854-1300 Fax (952)853-8488<br />
Media Contact, Exec. Dir. <strong>of</strong> International<br />
Mission, Timothy Addington<br />
Email: president@efca.org<br />
Website: www.efca.org<br />
Officers<br />
Pres., Dr. William J. Hamel, Minneapolis, MN<br />
Senior Vice President, ReachGlobal: Timothy<br />
Addington, Minneapolis, MN<br />
Senior Vice President, Finance <strong>and</strong> Operations:<br />
Jay O. Turner, Minneapolis, MN<br />
Executive Director, ReachNational: Rev. Fritz<br />
Dale, Minneapolis, MN<br />
Chairman: Rev. Robert Harrell, Austin, TX<br />
Sececretary: Rev. David Rodquist, Minneapolis, MN<br />
Moderator: Rev. Quintin Stieff, Des Moines, IA<br />
Vice Moderator: Steven Hawn, St. Paul, MN<br />
Periodicals<br />
EFCA Today<br />
Evangelical Friends International –<br />
North <strong>American</strong> Region<br />
The organization adjusted its name from<br />
Evangelical Friends International in 2008 to better<br />
reflect that this ministry is assuredly a church<br />
movement. The North <strong>American</strong> Region ministers<br />
alongside other regions around the world<br />
under the banner <strong>of</strong> the Evangelical Friends<br />
Church International. The Strategic vision - as<br />
formulated by the North <strong>American</strong> Director, Dr.<br />
John P. Williams Jr. - reads “In joyful obedience<br />
to Jesus’ Great Commission - <strong>and</strong> in the spirit <strong>of</strong><br />
His Great Comm<strong>and</strong>ment - our movement purposes<br />
to serve the church <strong>and</strong> the world in love,<br />
multiplying disciples <strong>and</strong> churches in the power<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Holy Spirit so that our children’s gr<strong>and</strong>children<br />
<strong>and</strong> generations <strong>of</strong> the un-reached will<br />
be compelled to join.<br />
Headquarters<br />
5350 Broadmoor Cir. NW, Canton, OH 44709,<br />
Tel. (330)493-1660 Fax (330)493-0852<br />
Media Contact, Gen. Supt., Dr. John P. Williams, Jr.<br />
Email: efcer@aol.com<br />
Website: www.evangelical-friends.org<br />
Yearly Meetings<br />
Evangelical Friends Church, Eastern Region,<br />
Ron Johnson, 5350 Broadmoor Cir., N.W.,<br />
Canton, OH 44709, Tel. (330)493-1660 Fax<br />
(330)493-0852<br />
Rocky Mountain YM, John Brawner, 3350 Reed<br />
St., Wheatridge, CO 80033, Tel. (303)238-<br />
5200 Fax (303)238-5200<br />
Mid-America YM, Duane Hansen, 2018 Maple,<br />
Wichita, KS 67213, Tel. (316)267-0391 Fax<br />
(316)267-0681<br />
Northwest YM, Mark Ankeny, 200 N. Meridian<br />
St., Newberg, OR 97132, Tel. (503)538-9419<br />
Fax (503)538-9410<br />
Alaska YM, Sam Williams, P.O. Box 687,<br />
Kotzebue, AK 99752, Tel. (907)442-3906<br />
Evangelical Friends Church Southwest, YM,<br />
Linda Coop, P.O. Box 1607, Whittier, CA<br />
90609-1607, Tel. (562)947-2883 Fax<br />
(562)947-9385<br />
Periodicals<br />
The Friends Voice<br />
Evangelical Lutheran Church in<br />
America*<br />
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America<br />
(ELCA) was organized April 30-May 3, 1987, in<br />
Columbus, Ohio, bringing together the 2.25 million-member<br />
<strong>American</strong> Lutheran Church, the 2.85<br />
million-member Lutheran Church in America, <strong>and</strong><br />
the 100,000-member Association <strong>of</strong> Evangelical<br />
Lutheran <strong>Churches</strong>.<br />
The ELCA is, through its predecessors, the oldest<br />
<strong>of</strong> the major U.S. Lutheran churches. In the<br />
mid-17th century, a Dutch Lutheran congregation<br />
was formed in New Amsterdam (now New York).<br />
Other early congregations were begun by German<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sc<strong>and</strong>inavian immigrants to Delaware,<br />
Pennsylvania, New York <strong>and</strong> the Carolinas.<br />
The first Lutheran association <strong>of</strong> congregations,<br />
the Pennsylvania Ministerium, was organized in<br />
1748 under Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.<br />
Numerous Lutheran organizations were formed as<br />
immigration continued <strong>and</strong> the United States grew.<br />
In 1960, The <strong>American</strong> Lutheran Church (ALC)<br />
was created through a merger <strong>of</strong> an earlier<br />
<strong>American</strong> Lutheran Church, formed in 1930, the<br />
Evangelical Lutheran Church, begun in 1917, <strong>and</strong><br />
the United Evangelical Lutheran Church started in<br />
1896. In 1963 the Lutheran Free Church, formed in<br />
1897, merged with the ALC.<br />
In 1962, the Lutheran Church in America (LCA)<br />
was formed by a merger <strong>of</strong> the United Lutheran<br />
Church in America, formed in 1918, with the<br />
Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, begun in<br />
1860, the <strong>American</strong> Evangelical Lutheran Church,<br />
founded in 1872, <strong>and</strong> the Finnish Evangelical<br />
Lutheran Church or Suomi Synod, founded in 1891.<br />
The Association <strong>of</strong> Evangelical Lutheran<br />
<strong>Churches</strong> arose in 1976 from a doctrinal split<br />
within the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.<br />
The ELCA, through its predecessor church bodies,<br />
was a founding member <strong>of</strong> the Lutheran World<br />
Federation, the World Council <strong>of</strong> <strong>Churches</strong>, <strong>and</strong><br />
the National Council <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Churches</strong> <strong>of</strong> Christ in<br />
the USA.<br />
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