World Evangelical Alliance
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Introduction
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global ministry working with local churches around the world to join in common concern to live and proclaim the "Good NewsGood news
Good News may refer to:*Good news , the message of Jesus*Good News , by Edward Abbey*Good News, a 1945 non-fiction work by Cyril Alington...
of Jesus
Jesus
Jesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
" in their communities. WEA is a network of church
Local church
A local church is a Christian congregation of members and clergy.Local church may also refer to:* Local churches , a Christian group based on the teachings of Watchman Nee and Witness Lee, and associated with the Living Stream Ministry publishing house.* Parish church, a local church united with...
es in 128 nations that have each formed an evangelical alliance and over 100 international organizations joining together to give a worldwide identity, voice and platform to more than 600 million evangelical Christians. Seeking holiness
Holiness
Holiness is the state of being holy or sacred.Holiness is being clean or pure, to be holy is to be like God.Holiness may also refer to:* Holiness movement, a specific tradition within evangelicalism...
, justice
Justice
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and renewal
Renewal
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at every level of society - individual, family, community and culture - it's aim is uniting to transform the nations so that God
God
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is glorified.
Christians from ten countries met in London in 1846 for the purpose of launching, in their own words, "a new thing in church history, a definite organization for the expression of unity amongst Christian individuals belonging to different churches." This was the beginning of a vision that was fulfilled in 1951 when believers from 21 countries officially formed the World Evangelical Fellowship. Today, 150 years after the London gathering, WEA is a dynamic global structure for unity and action that embraces 600 million evangelicals in 128 countries. It is a unity based on the historic Christian
Christian
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faith expressed in the evangelical tradition. And it looks to the future with vision to accomplish God's purposes in discipling the nations for Jesus Christ.
Today, WEA seeks to strengthen local churches through national alliances, supporting and coordinating grassroots leadership and seeking practical ways of showing the unity of the body of Christ.
Leadership
- Secretary General / International Director: Dr. Geoff TunnicliffeGeoff TunnicliffeGeoff Tunnicliffe is the Chief Executive Officer/Secretary General for the World Evangelical Alliance since 2005, representing a global constituency of 600 million Christians.-Career:...
- Representative to the United NationsUnited NationsThe United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
: Deborah FikesDeborah FikesDeborah Fikes is the executive advisor to the World Evangelical Alliance, and serves as the WEA Representative to the United Nations.-Biography:... - Leadership of the International Council: Rev. Dr. Sang-Bok David Kim (Chairman), Rev. Ndaba Mazabane (Vice-Chairman), Mr. Kenneth Artz (Treasurer), and Mr. Bruce Clemenger (Secretary)
- Members of the International Council: Yara Hussein, Katei Kirby, John E. Langlois, Hans Henrik Lund, Janet Morgan, Alfred Neufeld, Vinita Shaw, John O. Smith, and Valdir Steuernagel
Regional organizations
(A full listing is available on the WEA website- Association of Evangelicals of Africa (AEA)
- European Evangelical Alliance: Evangelical AllianceEvangelical AllianceThe Evangelical Alliance is a London-based charitable organization founded in 1846. It has a claimed representation of over 1,000,000 evangelical Christians in the United Kingdom and is the oldest alliance of evangelical Christians in the world....
(UK), Deutsche Evangelische Allianz (Germany)
- Asia Evangelical Alliance
- Evangelical Association of the Caribbean
- Evangelical Fellowship of the South Pacific (SPEA)
- Latin American Evangelical Fellowship (FIDE)
See also
- Mission Commission
- Religious Liberty Commission
- Theological Commission
- Women's Commission
- Youth Commission
- Information Technology Commission
- Anti-Human Trafficking Global Task Force
- International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF)
- Micah Challenge
- WEA Leadership Institute
- WEA Global Task Force on Nuclear Weapons
- WEA Peace and Reconciliation Project
- WEA Public Engagement Initiative