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Japan Joins IFFEC: Four Church Bodies Enter the Free Evangelical Family as One Federation

A Japanese federation of four church bodies was welcomed as a new member at IFFEC Worldwide 2026 in Kenya.

16 Oct 2026 · 1 min read

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Europe's Free Evangelical Churches Planted 227 Congregations in a Decade. Net, They Have 64 Fewer.

A new comparative report on 24 federations finds that church planting is a normal part of church life across Europe's Free Evangelical family, that a reported plant is often not yet a congregation, and that the numbers a fellowship keeps about itself are less solid than they look.

11 Oct 2026 · 3 min read

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Liberia: From a Refugee Camp to a National Church Fellowship

Orphaned as a child and educated in exile, Moses Womleh now chairs Liberia's newly formed Free Evangelical fellowship. This week he travels to Kenya to meet the worldwide Free Evangelical family for the first time.

26 Sep 2026 · 3 min read

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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.

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30 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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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.

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29 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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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.

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28 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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27 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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25 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

Around the Family: Free Evangelical Churches in Germany

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.

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23 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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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.

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22 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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21 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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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.

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20 Apr 2026 · 2 min read

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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.

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15 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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'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.

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14 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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2 Apr 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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28 Jan 2026 · 1 min read

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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.

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22 Dec 2025 · 1 min read

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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.

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11 Jul 2025 · 1 min read

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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

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11 Jul 2025 · 1 min read

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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

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10 Jul 2025 · 1 min read

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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,

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3 Jul 2025 · 1 min read