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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.