Evangelical Community in Congo

The Evangelical Community in Congo was established by Swedish missionaries, the Svenska Missionsförbundet in 1881. The center of their avtivities was in Lower Congo, where British and American Baptist were already begun establishing mission points. The Svenska Missionsförbundet and the Baptists shared the beliefs of credobaptism. The church become independent and it shares a theological seminary in Kinshasa. In the first year in the denomination marked by a revival of Pentecostal movement, but later it become more conscious of their Reformed heritage.^[1] It is a member of the World Council of Churches and the World Communion of Reformed Churches.^[2]

The church has 84,000 members and 87 congregations with 114 ordained pastors as of 2006.^[3]

References

1. "Address data base of Reformed churches and institutions". Reformiert-online.net. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
2. "Member churches | Bringing together 80 million Reformed Christians worldwide". Wcrc.ch. 2013-02-14. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
3. https://web.archive.org/20130208073742/http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/regions/africa/democratic-republic-of-congo/church-of-christ-in-congo-evangelical-community-of-congo.html. Archived from the original on February 8, 2013. Retrieved March 29, 2013. Missing or empty |title= (help)