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The Evangelical Free Connexion — news and connection for the global free evangelical family, provided by WWES.
Church Planters in Manila Rebuild After Fires — and Keep Planting
A fire in Manila in June 2025 destroyed homes and a community ministry hub used by a church planting partner — but also became an occasion for deepened community witness.
Every Member a Minister: The Free-Church Vision of the Whole Body
In the free evangelical tradition, ministry is not the preserve of the ordained. The universal priesthood of believers means that every member is called, gifted, and accountable for the work of the church.
Around the Family: The Free Evangelical Tradition in Africa — An Emerging Story
Africa is home to millions of Christians in the free evangelical tradition — though many don't yet know the family name. From Congo to Cameroon, from Kenya to Liberia, the story is only beginning to be told.
Who Governs the Local Church? Free-Church Polity and Why It Matters
In the free evangelical tradition, the local congregation is the primary ecclesial reality. This is not democratic populism — it is a theological conviction about where authority in the church resides.
3,350 Young People Gather for FeG Germany's BUJU 2026 Conference
The Bund Freier Evangelischer Gemeinden drew more than three thousand young people to Erfurt for BUJU 2026, its flagship youth gathering under the theme 'Love Collides'.
WWES and the African Free Church Family: A Vision for Connection
Over thirteen years, Worldwide Evangelical Seminary has trained church leaders across Africa who have gone on to plant churches and initiate national movements. WWES is now working to connect these movements to the global free evangelical family.
Around the Family: Covenant Churches in Latin America
Across eight countries, the Confraternidad de Iglesias del Pacto Evangélico de Iberoamérica (CIPE) links covenant evangelical churches in a light, federation-style structure that embodies the free-church tradition in a Latin American idiom.
A Century of Free-Church Faith in Central Africa: The CECU at 100
The Communauté Évangélique de l'Uélé in the DR Congo — planted by EFCA missionaries over a century ago — now counts more than a thousand congregations and hundreds of thousands of members.
'Long-Lost Spiritual Cousins': Connecting African Free Churches to Their Global Family
A May 2026 whitepaper by WWES founder Rev. Teemu J. Lehtonen argues that churches planted by WWES graduates across Africa share the free evangelical family's DNA — and maps the path toward formal connection.
Around the Family: Free Evangelical Churches in Asia
From India to the Philippines, from South Korea to Singapore, the free evangelical tradition has taken distinctive root across Asia — in many cases producing churches more vigorous than their Western parents.
What Is IFFEC? A Guide to the Global Free Evangelical Federation
The International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches links 31 national bodies across four continents. For new readers, here is a guide to who they are and what holds them together.
ReachGlobal Builds Across Five African Nations as Free-Church Partnerships Deepen
The Evangelical Free Church of America's global mission arm maintains active teams in Cameroon, the DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, and Tanzania — building churches and developing leaders across the continent.
Philippine Free Church Pursues Vision of 200 New Congregations by 2026
The Evangelical Free Church of the Philippines has set an ambitious target: 200 new church plants between 2022 and 2026, with training programmes and mapping initiatives already under way.
Around the Family: Free Evangelical Churches in Scandinavia
Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark each have substantial free evangelical movements — rooted in nineteenth-century revival, shaped by the pietist and holiness streams, and active in global mission far beyond their size.
What Is a Believers' Church? The Ecclesiology at the Heart of the Free Tradition
The free evangelical tradition is built on a specific understanding of what the church is and who belongs to it — the gathered community of those who have personally confessed Christ.
Germany's Free Church Association Marks a Century: VEF Celebrates 100 Years
The Vereinigung Evangelischer Freikirchen, Germany's association of evangelical free churches, celebrated its centennial on 29 April 2026.
Around the Family: Free Evangelical Churches in North America
North America is home to some of the IFFEC family's largest and most resourced members — the Evangelical Covenant Church, the Evangelical Free Church of America, and the Evangelical Free Church of Canada.
Three Streams, One River: The Historical Roots of the Free Evangelical Tradition
The free evangelical tradition is not a fourth Reformation. It is the convergence of three nineteenth-century renewal streams: revivalist, holiness, and Alliance — and understanding them illuminates what the movement is and why it holds together.