Evangelical Free Church of America

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Evangelical Free Church of America
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationEvangelical
TheologyRadical Pietistic[1]
PolityFree Church and Congregationalist
Associations
RegionUnited States
HeadquartersBloomington, Minnesota, US
OriginJune 1950
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Separated fromLutheranism
Branched fromMission Friends
Merger ofSwedish Evangelical Free Church and Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association
SeparationsEvangelical Free Church of Canada
Congregations1,600[2]
Members180,000[2]
Official websiteefca.org
SloganMultiplying Transformational Churches Among All People

The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) is an evangelical Christian denomination in the Radical Pietistic tradition.[1] The EFCA was formed in 1950 from the merger of the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association. It is affiliated with the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches.

  1. ^ a b Shantz, Douglas H. (2013). An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe. JHU Press. ISBN 9781421408804.
  2. ^ a b "EFCA Yearbook 2017 / 2017 EFCA Directory". Free Church Press. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 15, 2018.