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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
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 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
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