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IFFEC Global Youth Gathering 2025: 'Next Gen! Lead with Your Life' in Paris
Young leaders from the IFFEC family gathered in Paris in October 2025 for the Global Youth Gathering, under a call to the next generation to lead through their lives.
IFFEC Executive Committee: 'A Call for Peace, Dignity, and Reconciliation'
In June 2025, the IFFEC Executive Committee issued a public statement addressing global conflicts — calling on political leaders, and calling free evangelical churches to be places of reconciliation.
Covenant Kids Congo: Sponsorship, Schools, and the Long Work of Formation
The Evangelical Covenant Church's Covenant Kids Congo ministry links North American sponsors to children in the DR Congo through a model that integrates education, church, and community development.
Around the Family: Free Evangelical Churches in Germany
Germany is home to one of the most established free evangelical movements in the world — the FeG, with over 500 congregations, a national university, and a century of witness outside the state-church system.
FeG Bundestag 2025: New Churches, and a Process for Addressing Past Harm
Germany's free evangelical federation held its 2025 federal assembly in September, addressing both growth in church planting and the serious matter of establishing accountability for historic cases of abuse.
The One Principle That Makes Free Churches Work: Primary and Secondary Doctrine
Free evangelical churches agree on the gospel and grant freedom on everything else. The primary/secondary distinction is not theological laziness — it is a carefully designed architecture for cooperation.
Welcome to the Evangelical Free Connexion
A word from WWES about why this publication exists and who it is for — and an invitation to the scattered free evangelical family to find a shared information home.
Suomen Vapaakirkko Welcomes New Leader as Tommi Koivunen Takes Office
Finland's Evangelical Free Church entered a new season in late 2024 as Tommi Koivunen succeeded the retiring Hannu Vuorinen, bringing decades of youth ministry experience to the national leadership role.
'Pastors, You Are the Immune System': Scott Barber on Pastoral Health in a Movement
An EFCA leader's April 2026 essay on pastoral vitality argues that the health of the whole movement flows from the health of its pastors — a conviction that shapes how free churches approach pastoral care and formation.
IFFEC Convenes Church Planting Leaders in Budapest
Key European church planting leaders met in Budapest in March 2026 for an IFFEC-facilitated gathering to pray, plan, and strengthen trans-national cooperation.
ECC President Swanson-Draheim Nominated for Second Term
The Evangelical Covenant Church's board has nominated Tammy Swanson-Draheim to continue leading the denomination into a second presidential term.
Evangelical Covenant Church Names New Director of Church Planting
Rev. Pat Stark joins the ECC's Serve Locally team to lead church planting efforts across the denomination as it pursues continued multiplication.
WWES: Church Buildings, Immigrant Fellowships, and the 'Umbrella Church' Model
With Canada receiving over 471,000 new permanent residents in a single year and similar demographic shifts underway across Western Europe, WWES proposes a practical model: the "umbrella church.
WWES: Newcomer Churches Are Missionaries, Not Just Guests
WWES argues that Western churches have fundamentally misread the arrival of immigrant congregations. Rather than treating newcomer churches as guests requiring hospitality, he proposes "reverse missiology": recognising these
WWES: How Moscow Theological Seminary Went from Empty Dorms to 975 Students
Moscow Theological Seminary was founded in 1993 on a Western residential model — and promptly struggled with empty dormitories and insufficient enrolment. In 2007 it reintegrated its Soviet-era correspondence programme
WWES: The Residential Seminary Model Is Failing the Global Church
Eighty-five per cent of evangelical pastors worldwide have no formal theological education. In Africa, where Christianity has grown from 10 million to over 600 million believers in a century,
WWES: Why the 'Broad Tent' Makes Theological Education Stronger
WWES draws students from more than fifty countries — Pentecostals, Anglicans, Baptists, Presbyterians, Methodists, and members of indigenous church movements. Its approach to this diversity is what it calls "broad
WWES: 'Worldwide Evangelical' — What the Label Means
When prospective students discover that WWES describes itself as "evangelical," questions follow — especially from those who associate the word with North American politics or a narrow fundamentalism. WWES