Reaching the World with the WECF

Our CCCC world outreach does not always involve sending people overseas. It also involves supporting and working with evangelical Congregationalists around the world. In 1983 at the CCCC’s 35th Annual Gathering, in St. Paul, Minnesota, it was agreed that the ties between evangelical Congregationalists from around the world needed to be strengthened and that there needed to be a means by which effective communication and joint ministries could be exercised. Several visitors from Congregational fellowships in other countries were present at that meeting. At subsequent Annual Gatherings, progress was made toward forming such a fellowship and writing a constitution for it.

The World Evangelical Congregational Fellowship (WECF) was formed in 1986, and has been functioning ever since. The original documents suggested international cooperation and support in six major areas:  missions, evangelism and church growth, publications, personal exchange, theology and society. To read a history of the WECF, click here.

The WECF meets triennially in different countries around the world. The next such conference, the 11th Triennial Meeting, will be held right here in the USA. It will be held February 10–14, 2016 at the Hampton Inn and Suites Orlando Airport, Orlando, Florida.

Let us be in prayer for our evangelical Congregational brothers and sisters around the globe, not only in their ministries, but in the plans for the convention in February. To read the most recent issue of Our Congregational World, the official publication of the WECF, click here.