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Evangelical Covenant Church

February 19, 2023

The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is a Radical Pietistic denomination with Lutheran roots in the evangelical Christian tradition.[1][2][4] The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people[5][page needed] in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents. Founded in 1885 in North America by Swedish immigrants, the church is now one of the most rapidly growing and multi-ethnic denominations on the continent.[6] Historically Lutheran in theology, piety and background, it is now a broadly evangelical movement.

Evangelical Covenant Church
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationEvangelical
TheologyRadical Pietism[1][2]
PolityCongregational[3]
RegionUnited States, Canada
Origin1885
Chicago, Illinois
Separated fromLutheranism
Branched fromMission Friends
Congregations878
Members129,015
Official websitewww.covchurch.org

Background

 
Picture of the founder of Evangelical Covenant Church of America, Carl August Björk

The Evangelical Covenant Church's background is in free-church Swedish immigrants known as Mission Friends who had broken off from the Lutheran Church of Sweden. They formed a mission society and in the 1880s, meetings were held to determine whether or not to form a union of mission churches. The majority joined together, forming the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America (now ECC) on February 20, 1885, in Chicago, Illinois. A smaller percentage known as the Free Friends remained independent and became what is now the Evangelical Free Church.[7]

A pietistic religious awakening had swept through Sweden around the middle of the 19th century. Before leaving their homeland some Swedes met in people's homes, as they felt the state church was becoming overly powerful. There they conducted private services (conventicles), including hymn singing accompanied by guitars, and read scripture from their Bibles, but they were sometimes interrupted by church officials, who wanted to keep them in congregations at church. The Conventicle Act, in effect until 1858, prevented them from holding private religious gatherings. This reinforced their yearning to be in a church where they could worship freely. With this awakening and reformation came the Swedish Mission Church in 1878. The state church discouraged the gathering of these believers.

People from this movement emigrated to North America, where they formed the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America. Early leaders and influences included Carl August Björk (1837–1916) Paul Petter Waldenström (1838–1917) and David Nyvall (1863–1946), among others. They desired to create a voluntary "covenant of churches" that were committed to sharing the Gospel of Jesus, as well as provide means for ministerial training. The name was changed to the Evangelical Covenant Church of America in 1954. The "of America" was eventually abandoned because the denomination includes a Canadian conference.

Status

The denominational offices are located in Chicago, Illinois, where they are also affiliated with North Park University and North Park Theological Seminary. The church was formerly affiliated with Swedish Hospital, then known as Swedish Covenant Hospital. There are related Bible colleges in Alaska, where the church established early missions, and California.[8][9] They are also affiliated with Minnehaha Academy, a pre-K-12 school in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The church is divided into eleven regional conferences[10] – Canada Conference,[11] Central Conference,[12] East Coast Conference (organized 1890),[13] Great Lakes Conference,[14] Midsouth Conference,[15] Midwest Conference,[16] Pacific Northwest Conference,[17] Northwest Conference,[18] Pacific Southwest Conference,[19] Southeast Conference[20] – and its newest conference, the Alaska Conference.[21] The Covenant presence in Alaska started from 1887 as a foreign mission outpost, but gradually transitioned its status to a home mission, and finally full conference standing in 2015.

Annual meetings are held, to which delegates are sent by the congregations, reporting back to local churches.

Covenant Publications are the communication arm of the denomination. The denominational hymnal is The Covenant Hymnal: A Worship Book.

A major ministry of the denomination includes senior living facilities and is supplemented through its Covenant Benevolent Institutions department. Among the ECC retirement systems, The Samarkand and Covenant Shores are considered to be two of the top facilities in the United States.[citation needed]

As of 2011, denomination membership was 124,669 in 820 congregations in the United States (43 states) of US and an estimated 1500 members in 23 congregations in Canada (five provinces).[5] Average attendance in 2009 was 178,997. The denomination also has ongoing missions work in 25 countries worldwide, with 125 long-term missionaries, project missionaries and short-term missionaries. The ECC has a worldwide membership of almost 278,000.

Membership is concentrated primarily in three regions of the United States: the Midwest, along the West Coast, and in the Great Plains region.[22] California has the largest number of members, but the highest rates of membership are in Minnesota, Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington.[22]

Other

Forerunners of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant were the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Ansgar Synod and the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod. When members of the two synods dissolved and the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant was formed, some of those who did not enter the Mission Covenant formed the Swedish Evangelical Free Mission (now the Evangelical Free Church of America). The Evangelical Covenant Church maintains ties with the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (formerly known as the Svenska Missionsförbundet; see Svenska Missionskyrkan[23] and CIPE),[24] and the other churches in the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches.

In the 1920s, Warner Sallman created illustrations for the denominational magazine, Covenant Companion, including his charcoal sketch The Son of Man for a 1924 magazine cover that was later redone as the famous oil painting The Head of Christ.

Since 1976, the denomination has ordained and licensed women as ministers.[25]

Many figures in the Jesus Movement[26] have formally linked themselves to the ECC.

In 2022, the Rev. Tammy Swanson-Draheim was elected as the first female president of the denomination.[27]

Stance on same-sex marriage

The ECC officially excludes same-sex marriage from its theology and practice. The ECC's 1996 resolution adopted by the Covenant Annual Meeting entitled "Resolution on Human Sexuality" represents the ongoing consensus position of the ECC. The resolution upholds "celibacy, the state of abstaining (outside of marriage) in singleness, and heterosexual relations as the Christian standard".[28] Additionally, the ECC does not permit ministers to perform same-sex marriages.

The ECC, though, has been a pioneer among evangelical denominations with regard to its commitment to engagement with the LGBT community. In 2018, the ECC launched Embrace, a suite of human sexuality discipleship resources and learning experiences which are in harmony with the adopted position of the ECC. A special emphasis of Embrace is equipping ECC churches and individuals to flourish in love for LGBT individuals and communities.[29]

The ECC does allow ministers to exercise pastoral discretion by attending a same-sex marriage ceremony.[30] One congregation in Portland, OR developed differing all-inclusive policy statements, prompting the ECC to remove that congregation in 2015.[31][32] Moreover, some individuals affiliated with Covenant congregations have organized to advocate for more inclusive national policies.[33]

At the June 2019 annual meeting of the ECC, First Covenant Church of Minneapolis was dismissed from the ECC's roster of churches after being deemed out of harmony with regard to its position on human sexuality and pastoral credentialing after a vote for involuntary dismissal by delegates surpassed a two-thirds supermajority. Delegates also surpassed a two-thirds supermajority in removing the ordination standing of two pastors who contravened the ECC's communally discerned position on human sexuality.[34]

Notable members

See also

  • Läsare – Swedish Pietistic movement which influenced those who eventually founded the ECC
  • Nyevangelism – related Swedish movement with ties to the Mission Friends and ECC

References

  1. ^ a b Shantz, Douglas H. (2013). An Introduction to German Pietism: Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe. JHU Press. ISBN 9781421408804. Groups with Radical Pietist roots include the North American Baptist Conference (German Baptists), the Moravian Church, the Church of the Brethren, the Mennonite Brethren, the Evangelical United Brethren, Brethren in Christ, the Evangelical Free Church, the Baptist General Conference (Swedish Baptists), and the Evangelical Covenant Church.
  2. ^ a b "We Are Pietists". The Evangelical Covenant Church (Podcast). 2021-11-16. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  3. ^ "Structure – ECC - Who We Are". The Evangelical Covenant Church. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  4. ^ "America's Changing Religious Landscape: Appendix B: Classification of Protestant Denominations". Pew Research Center. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Covenant Yearbook (2019-2020) – ECC | Resources". Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  6. ^ "History", Who we are, Cov church.
  7. ^ Gustafson, David M. (2008). D.L. Moody and Swedes: shaping evangelical identity among Swedish mission friends, 1867-1899 (PDF). Linköping University, Department of culture and communication. pp. 6, 167. ISBN 9789173939959. OCLC 489777085.
  8. ^ Alaska Christian College.
  9. ^ Centro Hispano de Estudios Teológicos.
  10. ^ "Conferences", Structure, Cov church.
  11. ^ "canadacovenantchurch.com".
  12. ^ "Home".
  13. ^ "East Coast Conference".
  14. ^ "Great Lakes Conference".
  15. ^ "MIDSOUTH CONFERENCE". MIDSOUTH CONFERENCE.
  16. ^ "The Midwest Conference". The Midwest Conference.
  17. ^ "Home". Pacific Northwest Conference.
  18. ^ "Binäre Optionen für Profis - Binäre Optionen für Profis".
  19. ^ "Home « Pacific Southwest Conference". pswc.org.
  20. ^ "Home". se-conf.org.
  21. ^ "Alaska Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church | growing in God's word, relationships, outreach, word and service". www.alaskacovenant.org.
  22. ^ a b "2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Study". Glenmary Research Center. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  23. ^ "Equmeniakyrkan". Equmeniakyrkan.
  24. ^ http://www.pacto.org/cipe/index.htm
  25. ^ "Women in Ministry". covchurch.org. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
  26. ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-08-09. Retrieved 2019-08-13.
  27. ^ Kumar, Anugrah (June 26, 2022). "Evangelical Covenant Church denomination elects first female president". The Christian Post.
  28. ^ "Guidelines for Covenant Pastors and Congregations Regarding Human Sexuality" (PDF). The Evangelical Covenant Church. October 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  29. ^ "Embrace – Human Sexuality Discipleship Resources". covchurch.org. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  30. ^ (PDF). covchurch.org. Evangelical Covenant Church. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 9, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2016.
  31. ^ Eckstrom, Kevin (17 February 2015). "Evangelicals pull support for Portland church over LGBT stance". religionnews.com. Religion News. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  32. ^ "Evangelicals pull support for Portland church over LGBT stance". Religion News Service. 17 February 2015. Retrieved 2016-05-09.
  33. ^ "About". comingoutcovenant.com. Coming Out Covenant. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  34. ^ "Letter from the Covenant Regarding Decisions Made at the Annual Meeting". The Evangelical Covenant Church. 3 July 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
  35. ^ Silliman, Daniel (22 June 2020). "For Third-Party Christians, Some Things Are More Important Than Winning". Christianity Today.

Further reading

  • Blanck, Dag, "Two Churches, One Community: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, 1860–1920," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 63 (April–July 2012), 158–73.
  • Granquist, Mark, "Parallel Paths: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, 1920–1945," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 63 (April–July 2012), 174–86.
  • Covenant Affirmations (2005, 24 page denominational summary, .pdf)
  • Covenant Roots, Glenn P. Anderson, editor
  • David Nyvall and the Shape of an Immigrant Church, by Scott E. Erickson
  • Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor
  • Handbook of Denominations in the United States, by Frank S. Mead, Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood
  • Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States (2000), Glenmary Research Center
  • 2004 Annual Meeting Update: Delegate Summary Report
  • 2005 Annual Meeting Update: Delegate Summary Report
  • 2006 Annual Meeting Update: Delegate Summary Report
  • Covenant Yearbook: Statistical Data & Resources for Churches 2005-2006
  • , Everett L. Wilson and Donald Lindman, authors
  • Morgan, David (Summer 2006). "The face that's everywhere". Christian History & Biography. Christianity Today International (91): 11.
  • By One Spirit by Karl Olsson

External links

  • Official website
  • North Park University
  • North Park Theological Seminary
  • Alaska Christian College
  • Minnehaha Academy
  • Swedish Covenant Hospital
  • Pacific Southwest Conference
  • East Coast Conference (org. 1890)
  • Covenant Bookstore – Church resources and Covenant publications
  • Profile of the Evangelical Covenant Church on the Association of Religion Data Archives website

February 19, 2023
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movement Evangelical Covenant ChurchClassificationProtestantOrientationEvangelicalTheologyRadical Pietism 1 2 PolityCongregational 3 RegionUnited States CanadaOrigin1885 Chicago IllinoisSeparated fromLutheranismBranched fromMission FriendsCongregations878Members129 015Official websitewww covchurch org Contents 1 Background 2 Status 3 Other 4 Stance on same sex marriage 5 Notable members 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksBackground Edit Picture of the founder of Evangelical Covenant Church of America Carl August Bjork The Evangelical Covenant Church s background is in free church Swedish immigrants known as Mission Friends who had broken off from the Lutheran Church of Sweden They formed a mission society and in the 1880s meetings were held to determine whether or not to form a union of mission churches The majority joined together forming the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America now ECC on February 20 1885 in Chicago Illinois A smaller percentage known as the Free Friends remained independent and became what is now the Evangelical Free Church 7 A pietistic religious awakening had swept through Sweden around the middle of the 19th century Before leaving their homeland some Swedes met in people s homes as they felt the state church was becoming overly powerful There they conducted private services conventicles including hymn singing accompanied by guitars and read scripture from their Bibles but they were sometimes interrupted by church officials who wanted to keep them in congregations at church The Conventicle Act in effect until 1858 prevented them from holding private religious gatherings This reinforced their yearning to be in a church where they could worship freely With this awakening and reformation came the Swedish Mission Church in 1878 The state church discouraged the gathering of these believers People from this movement emigrated to North America where they formed the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America Early leaders and influences included Carl August Bjork 1837 1916 Paul Petter Waldenstrom 1838 1917 and David Nyvall 1863 1946 among others They desired to create a voluntary covenant of churches that were committed to sharing the Gospel of Jesus as well as provide means for ministerial training The name was changed to the Evangelical Covenant Church of America in 1954 The of America was eventually abandoned because the denomination includes a Canadian conference Status EditThe denominational offices are located in Chicago Illinois where they are also affiliated with North Park University and North Park Theological Seminary The church was formerly affiliated with Swedish Hospital then known as Swedish Covenant Hospital There are related Bible colleges in Alaska where the church established early missions and California 8 9 They are also affiliated with Minnehaha Academy a pre K 12 school in Minneapolis Minnesota The church is divided into eleven regional conferences 10 Canada Conference 11 Central Conference 12 East Coast Conference organized 1890 13 Great Lakes Conference 14 Midsouth Conference 15 Midwest Conference 16 Pacific Northwest Conference 17 Northwest Conference 18 Pacific Southwest Conference 19 Southeast Conference 20 and its newest conference the Alaska Conference 21 The Covenant presence in Alaska started from 1887 as a foreign mission outpost but gradually transitioned its status to a home mission and finally full conference standing in 2015 Annual meetings are held to which delegates are sent by the congregations reporting back to local churches Covenant Publications are the communication arm of the denomination The denominational hymnal is The Covenant Hymnal A Worship Book A major ministry of the denomination includes senior living facilities and is supplemented through its Covenant Benevolent Institutions department Among the ECC retirement systems The Samarkand and Covenant Shores are considered to be two of the top facilities in the United States citation needed As of 2011 denomination membership was 124 669 in 820 congregations in the United States 43 states of US and an estimated 1500 members in 23 congregations in Canada five provinces 5 Average attendance in 2009 was 178 997 The denomination also has ongoing missions work in 25 countries worldwide with 125 long term missionaries project missionaries and short term missionaries The ECC has a worldwide membership of almost 278 000 Membership is concentrated primarily in three regions of the United States the Midwest along the West Coast and in the Great Plains region 22 California has the largest number of members but the highest rates of membership are in Minnesota Alaska Kansas Nebraska and Washington 22 Other EditForerunners of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant were the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Ansgar Synod and the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod When members of the two synods dissolved and the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant was formed some of those who did not enter the Mission Covenant formed the Swedish Evangelical Free Mission now the Evangelical Free Church of America The Evangelical Covenant Church maintains ties with the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden formerly known as the Svenska Missionsforbundet see Svenska Missionskyrkan 23 and CIPE 24 and the other churches in the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches In the 1920s Warner Sallman created illustrations for the denominational magazine Covenant Companion including his charcoal sketch The Son of Man for a 1924 magazine cover that was later redone as the famous oil painting The Head of Christ Since 1976 the denomination has ordained and licensed women as ministers 25 Many figures in the Jesus Movement 26 have formally linked themselves to the ECC In 2022 the Rev Tammy Swanson Draheim was elected as the first female president of the denomination 27 Stance on same sex marriage EditThe ECC officially excludes same sex marriage from its theology and practice The ECC s 1996 resolution adopted by the Covenant Annual Meeting entitled Resolution on Human Sexuality represents the ongoing consensus position of the ECC The resolution upholds celibacy the state of abstaining outside of marriage in singleness and heterosexual relations as the Christian standard 28 Additionally the ECC does not permit ministers to perform same sex marriages The ECC though has been a pioneer among evangelical denominations with regard to its commitment to engagement with the LGBT community In 2018 the ECC launched Embrace a suite of human sexuality discipleship resources and learning experiences which are in harmony with the adopted position of the ECC A special emphasis of Embrace is equipping ECC churches and individuals to flourish in love for LGBT individuals and communities 29 The ECC does allow ministers to exercise pastoral discretion by attending a same sex marriage ceremony 30 One congregation in Portland OR developed differing all inclusive policy statements prompting the ECC to remove that congregation in 2015 31 32 Moreover some individuals affiliated with Covenant congregations have organized to advocate for more inclusive national policies 33 At the June 2019 annual meeting of the ECC First Covenant Church of Minneapolis was dismissed from the ECC s roster of churches after being deemed out of harmony with regard to its position on human sexuality and pastoral credentialing after a vote for involuntary dismissal by delegates surpassed a two thirds supermajority Delegates also surpassed a two thirds supermajority in removing the ordination standing of two pastors who contravened the ECC s communally discerned position on human sexuality 34 Notable members EditLincoln Brewster musician Paul Carlson missionary doctor Brian T Carroll American presidential candidate for the American Solidarity Party 35 Alice Cooper singer songwriter actor Nils Frykman hymnwriter Craig Groeschel minister of Life Church Kirsten Haglund Miss America 2008 Mike Holmgren former Super Bowl winning National Football League head coach Johannes Alfred Hultman musician Timothy Johnson ABC News medical editor Lorenzo Romar head coach of the Pepperdine University men s basketball team Warner Sallman artistSee also EditLasare Swedish Pietistic movement which influenced those who eventually founded the ECC Nyevangelism related Swedish movement with ties to the Mission Friends and ECCReferences Edit a b Shantz Douglas H 2013 An Introduction to German Pietism Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe JHU Press ISBN 9781421408804 Groups with Radical Pietist roots include the North American Baptist Conference German Baptists the Moravian Church the Church of the Brethren the Mennonite Brethren the Evangelical United Brethren Brethren in Christ the Evangelical Free Church the Baptist General Conference Swedish Baptists and the Evangelical Covenant Church a b We Are Pietists The Evangelical Covenant Church Podcast 2021 11 16 Retrieved 2022 07 19 Structure ECC Who We Are The Evangelical Covenant Church Retrieved 2020 11 07 America s Changing Religious Landscape Appendix B Classification of Protestant Denominations Pew Research Center 12 May 2015 Retrieved 1 July 2019 a b Covenant Yearbook 2019 2020 ECC Resources Retrieved 2022 02 13 History Who we are Cov church Gustafson David M 2008 D L Moody and Swedes shaping evangelical identity among Swedish mission friends 1867 1899 PDF Linkoping University Department of culture and communication pp 6 167 ISBN 9789173939959 OCLC 489777085 Alaska Christian College Centro Hispano de Estudios Teologicos Conferences Structure Cov church canadacovenantchurch com Home East Coast Conference Great Lakes Conference MIDSOUTH CONFERENCE MIDSOUTH CONFERENCE The Midwest Conference The Midwest Conference Home Pacific Northwest Conference Binare Optionen fur Profis Binare Optionen fur Profis Home Pacific Southwest Conference pswc org Home se conf org Alaska Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church growing in God s word relationships outreach word and service www alaskacovenant org a b 2000 Religious Congregations and Membership Study Glenmary Research Center Retrieved 2009 12 07 Equmeniakyrkan Equmeniakyrkan http www pacto org cipe index htm Women in Ministry covchurch org Retrieved 2016 05 09 Jesus People USA Covenant Church amp Community Archived from the original on 2018 08 09 Retrieved 2019 08 13 Kumar Anugrah June 26 2022 Evangelical Covenant Church denomination elects first female president The Christian Post Guidelines for Covenant Pastors and Congregations Regarding Human Sexuality PDF The Evangelical Covenant Church October 2015 Retrieved 1 July 2019 Embrace Human Sexuality Discipleship Resources covchurch org Retrieved 2020 10 30 Guidelines for Covenant Ministers Regarding Human Sexuality PDF covchurch org Evangelical Covenant Church Archived from the original PDF on April 9 2011 Retrieved February 21 2016 Eckstrom Kevin 17 February 2015 Evangelicals pull support for Portland church over LGBT stance religionnews com Religion News Retrieved January 25 2016 Evangelicals pull support for Portland church over LGBT stance Religion News Service 17 February 2015 Retrieved 2016 05 09 About comingoutcovenant com Coming Out Covenant Retrieved January 25 2016 Letter from the Covenant Regarding Decisions Made at the Annual Meeting The Evangelical Covenant Church 3 July 2019 Retrieved 2020 10 30 Silliman Daniel 22 June 2020 For Third Party Christians Some Things Are More Important Than Winning Christianity Today Further reading EditBlanck Dag Two Churches One Community The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church 1860 1920 Swedish American Historical Quarterly 63 April July 2012 158 73 Granquist Mark Parallel Paths The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church 1920 1945 Swedish American Historical Quarterly 63 April July 2012 174 86 Covenant Affirmations 2005 24 page denominational summary pdf Covenant Roots Glenn P Anderson editor David Nyvall and the Shape of an Immigrant Church by Scott E Erickson Encyclopedia of American Religions J Gordon Melton editor Handbook of Denominations in the United States by Frank S Mead Samuel S Hill and Craig D Atwood Religious Congregations amp Membership in the United States 2000 Glenmary Research Center 2004 Annual Meeting Update Delegate Summary Report 2005 Annual Meeting Update Delegate Summary Report 2006 Annual Meeting Update Delegate Summary Report Covenant Yearbook Statistical Data amp Resources for Churches 2005 2006 Covenant Distinctives Everett L Wilson and Donald Lindman authors Morgan David Summer 2006 The face that s everywhere Christian History amp Biography Christianity Today International 91 11 By One Spirit by Karl OlssonExternal links EditOfficial website North Park University North Park Theological Seminary Alaska Christian College Minnehaha Academy Swedish Covenant Hospital Pacific Southwest Conference Adherents com membership numbers for the ECC East Coast 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