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1885
Founded by Scandinavian immigrants
850+
Congregations across the US and Canada
60+
Countries reached through global partnership
What is the Evangelical Covenant Church?
Founded in 1885 by Scandinavian immigrants, the Evangelical Covenant Church has grown into one of the most ethnically diverse denominations in North America.
Today, we are a vibrant and growing movement, with more than 850 congregations across the United States and Canada, organized into 11 regional conferences.
We partner with the global church in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East/North Africa, working together to share the whole gospel across cultures and around the world.
Our denominational offices are located in Chicago, Illinois.
What is our mission?
We join God in God’s mission to see more disciples among more populations in a more caring and just world.
As the Evangelical Covenant Church, we pursue our mission through five strategic priorities. We aim to: Start & Strengthen Churches, Make & Deepen Disciples, Serve Clergy, Love Mercy Do Justice, and Serve Globally.
Our mission priorities are what guide everything we do.
We believe so strongly in these five priorities that we have organized our ministry life around them. From church planting and social justice to global missions, leadership development, discipleship and racial reconciliation, we seek to build a holistic body of Christ.
What is our vision?
The Evangelical Covenant Church envisions living into the kingdom of God through the prayerful, intergenerational, multiethnic, growing movement of churches served by women and men striving to follow in the way of Jesus by loving others as Jesus loves us.
As a movement of congregations, conferences, and denomination, we are strengthened by prayer, partnership, and a shared mission. Our immigrant founders were Pietists, a renewal movement that sought faith that engaged head, heart, and hands.
Now as we celebrate 140 years of ministry, we embrace the distinctives that shape our identity: a deep commitment to Scripture, guided by the question, “Where is it written?”; spiritual growth, inspired by the question, “How goes your walk?”; and hearts of compassion for those who are hurting.
