World Evangelical Alliance
| World Evangelical Alliance | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Protestant |
| Leader | Efraim Tendero, Secretary-General |
| Associations | 129 national evangelical alliances |
| Region | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | New York, United States |
| Origin | 1846 |
| Members | 600 million |
| Official website | worldea.org |
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global organization of evangelical Christian churches, serving more than 600 million evangelicals, founded in 1846 in London, England to unite evangelicals worldwide. WEA is the largest international organization of evangelical churches, and is now headquartered in New York City, United States. It brings together 7 regional and 129 evangelical alliances of churches, and over 150 member organizations. Some of the national alliances include Protestant churches which are not traditional Evangelical churches in the strict sense (anabaptism), (Networks & Church Denominations). Moreover, the WEA includes a certain percentage of individual evangelical Christian churches. The World Communion of Reformed Churches, which has 80 million members, is one of the main networks in the organization. It is open for membership of individual evangelical Christians (as compared to the World Council of Churches (WCC), where individual membership is not possible). The Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, its founding member, is part of WEA.
Its mission is to establish and strengthen regional and national Evangelical Alliances, who in turn enable their national Church to advance the Good News of Jesus Christ and effect personal and community transformation for the glory of God.
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The World Evangelical Alliance was formed in London, England with 10 countries in 1846. · Their shared vision was "a new thing in church history, a definite organization for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals belonging to different churches." In 1951, 21 countries, under the leadership of American theologians Harold Ockenga and J. Elwin Wright, participated in the rebirth of the WEA, which became the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). · In 2001, after the General Assembly in Kuala Lumpur, WEF became the World Evangelical Alliance. As of 2005, the WEA is experiencing a collegiate management under the leadership of its Canadian leader, Geoff Tunnicliffe. Offices were opened in Vancouver, Canada (Leadership), San Francisco (Information Technology), Washington (Publications), and Geneva (International Relations). As of 2010, the central office is in New York, United States
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