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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 />

US RELIGIOUS BODIES<br />

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