History
A Swedish Evangelical Absolutely free! Church & a Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Absolutely free! Church Association merged around June of 1950 to form the Evangelical Free streaming Church of Us. A merger conference took place at a Medicine Flow of any stream Conference Evidence touching Minneapolis, Minnesota. Them bodies represented 275 local congregations at a instance of the merger.

A Swedish class action formed when a Swedish Evangelical Absolutely free! Mission around Boone, Iowa in October of 1884. Many churches that got been members of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Ansgar Synod & a Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod, along by having a select few independent congregations, were instrumental within organizing this voluntary fellowship. Likewise inside 1884 both Norwegian-Danish groups, around Boston, Massachusetts and Tacoma, Washington, began to fellowship together. By 1912 they had formed Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Absolutely free! Church Association.

A EFCA shares a few early ties by owning people world health organization formed a Swedish Evangelical Covenant Church.

Doctrine
A Evangelical Yours free! Church of America claims sextet distinctives: that it "is inclusive not exclusive...evangelical but not separatistic...ecumenical in spirit though not in structure...believes in liberty with responsibility and accountability...believes in both the rational and relational dimensions of Christianity...and...affirms the right of each local church to govern its own affairs." A church is Trinitarian in theology, moderately Calvinistic in soteriology, congregational in ecclesiology and polity, and premillennial in eschatology. A church holds ii ordinances, a water supply baptism and the Lord's supper. It summarize their doctrinal position within the twelve-article statement of faith (available on the church site).

Organizational Structure
A President, a National Leadership Team, & a Board of Directors of the EFCA provide partisan leadership. A EFCA is divided into Xx regional territory to serve a needs of the local church. Inside 2005 the denomination had 1,270 autonomous member congregations, sustaining an typical every week attendance of 343,692. A denomination maintains headquarters around Minneapolis, Minnesota, and engages within ministries in education, publications, camps, senior housing, toddlers's homes, & campy facilities. A EFCA operates a Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, Trinity Law School in Santa Ana, California, and Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia.

Notable EFCA Leaders & Pastors

EFCA Presidents
William J. Hamel: 1997-present Paul The. Cedar: 1990-1996 Thomas The. McDill: 1976-1990 Arnold T. Olson: 1951-1976 E.The. Halleen: 1950-1951

Others
Radio teacher/preacher Chuck Swindoll is a former EFCA pastor. He is too president of Dallas Theological Seminary.