The summer issue of Alliance Life magazine features a reflective piece on how local, neighbourhood-based presence is increasingly understood as essential to the Christian and Missionary Alliance's
North Park Theological Seminary, the seminary of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) in Chicago, has received an $8 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to launch One Covenant Community, a
Rev. Botrus Mansour, Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), concluded a visit to New York this week aimed at deepening the organisation's engagement with the United
Chuck and Diane Phippen left behind a 250-acre organic, grass-fed dairy farm, ten children, sixteen grandchildren, and sixty-five cows when they boarded a plane in 2023 to
When missionaries visit their supporting churches, both sides often miss a deeper opportunity, writes Brittany Bruns on the EFCA Blog. Drawing on her own experience as a former overseas missionary,
After 27 years in pastoral ministry, Rev. Joseph Langub says he has experienced something he can only describe as "a deeper and more intentional work of the Holy Spirit&
On 1 July 2026, Toccoa Falls College in Georgia officially became the University of Toccoa Falls, marking a new chapter in the institution's century-long history of Christ-
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence on 4 July 2026, the Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Rev. Botrus Mansour, has issued an
The Evangelical Covenant Church's annual Gather meeting in Scottsdale will celebrate five decades since the denomination first ordained women as pastors.
The Evangelical Covenant Church marks the passing of one of its most distinguished presidents, who led the denomination through a formative decade.
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.
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.
The Evangelical Covenant Church's board has nominated Tammy Swanson-Draheim to continue leading the denomination into a second presidential term.
Rev. Pat Stark joins the ECC's Serve Locally team to lead church planting efforts across the denomination as it pursues continued multiplication.