Constituents
TEN DENOMINATIONS JOINING TOGETHER FOR THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST
AMERICAN BAPTIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ANGLICAN COMMUNION
AMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL
The American Anglican Council is a network of individuals (laity, deacons, priests and bishops), parishes and specialized ministries who affirm Biblical authority and Christian orthodoxy within the Anglican Communion. In response to the Lord’s calling and by His grace, we commit ourselves to proclaim the Good News to every person and to reform and renew the Church of Jesus Christ. We are uniting in order to fulfill our apostolic mission and ministry, working to build a faithful Anglican witness in the Americas.
ANGLICANS UNITED
To grow a faithful church for the promulgation of the gospel while forming Christian disciples in the evangelical, catholic and reformed Anglican way.
ANGLICAN ACTION
Anglican Action promotes orthodox social witness, teaching, and practice within the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion. We labor for an effective Anglican witness to Christ in our nation and our world—a witness grounded in Scripture, rooted in tradition, and informed by reason.
ANGLICAN NETWORK IN CANADA
A national fellowship of Canadian Anglicans who share a commitment to biblically faithful, historically authentic Anglicanism and wish to remain within the embrace of the biblically faithful global Anglican Communion.
www.anglicannetwork.ca
ANGLICAN ESSENTIALS, CANADA
Anglican Essentials Canada offers support to Canadian Anglicans who wish to remain true to biblically-faithful, historically-authentic Anglicanism and who are concerned about the direction taken by their current church leadership.
FEDERATION OF ANGLICAN CHURCHES IN THE AMERICAS
The Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas, in obedience to our Lord’s command that His people be one, envisions faithful Anglican Churches working together in communion to fulfill the Great Commission.
THE ANGLICAN PROVINCE OF AMERICA
Traditional, Episcopal, Evangelical and Catholic
ANGLICAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Anglican Catholic Church is part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, faithfully continuing the Anglican tradition. We practice and uphold the historic Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship, and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church.
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
DISCIPLES HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP
A fellowship of churches seeking to grow together in Jesus Christ with roots in the traditions of the Disciples of Christ, focused on the inspiration and authority of the Bible, the saving power of Jesus Christ and the importance of recovering the dynamics of the New Testament church in today’s experience.
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF AMERICA
WORD ALONE NETWORK
Building an evangelical confessional Lutheran future in America.
LUTHERAN CORE
Lutheran CORE is a coalition of pastors, lay people, congregations and reforming groups. We seek to preserve within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) the authority of the Word of God according to the Lutheran confessions. Our intention is to remain within our church and to work with congregations, individuals, and other reform-minded groups for the reform of our church.
COMMON CONFESSION
Living the Christian faith, honoring our Lutheran Heritage
THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CONFESSING FELLOWSHIP
In recent years, traditional Christian churches have seen an unprecedented erosion of the commonly held beliefs of the one true Faith in Jesus Christ. Increasingly, lines continue to be drawn between those upholding the historic Confession of Faith, and those who would rewrite this Confession. The ELCF was created to stand against these false teachings, to confess and promote the following principles within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America:
LUTHERAN RENEWAL
For those seeking the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit
AMERICAN LUTHERAN PUBLICITY BUREAU
The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau (ALPB), established in 1914, is a non-profit organization independent of official church control, linked by faith and confession to the Church it serves. Committed to an understanding of Lutheran tradition as evangelical and catholic, the ALPB affirms the Church’s scriptural and confessional foundations in order to foster renewal not only within the present Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada but also Lutheran churches abroad and the wider ecumenical community.
PRESBYTERIAN
PRESBYTERIAN LAYMAN
The voice of biblically committed Presbyterians, reaching 450,000 Presbyterian homes in the U.S. and abroad.
NEW WINESKINS CONVOCATION
We are a group of nearly 200 Presbyterian churches across America who believes we have received a vision and accepted the call to work it out. What we have seen is a movement of God’s Spirit across the world, which is transcending denominational lines and drawing millions to meet Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior for the first time. New wine of fresh faith in Christ is being poured out from heaven. We want to be part of what God is doing.
www.newwineskinsassociation.com
THE RENEWAL FELLOWSHIP
Within the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Living the name!
renewalfellowship.presbyterian.ca
PRESBYTERIAN RENEWAL FELLOWSHIP
We are a forum for renewal leaders in the Presbyterian Church (USA) to provide opportunity to share ministry endeavors and concerns for the state of the church, and to consider what cooperative efforts might emerge from such discussions. The renewal groups represented by members of the Presbyterian Renewal Network (PRN) are committed to Christian orthodoxy and the reformation of the Church according to the Word of God.
PRESBYTERIAN COALITION
The Church’s one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord. God has called the church into being in order to carry out God’s mission to the world. We believe that the Presbyterian Church (USA) must respond to that commission by reaffirming its Christ-centeredness, reclaiming its biblical faith, and remobilizing its missionary service
PRESBYTERIAN ACTION FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM
Presbyterian Action for Faith and Freedom defends and promotes biblical values within the Presbyterian Church (USA). We monitor denominational agencies and meetings, speaking out for the many Presbyterians who feel excluded by the dominant activist circles of the left. Presbyterian Action believes that the most powerful political message the church can deliver is simply the gospel of Jesus Christ, not any partisan agenda.
PRESBYTERIANS FOR FAITH FAMILY & MINISTRY
Presbyterians for Faith, Family, and Ministry (PFFM) is working to restore the strength and integrity of the Presbyterian Church USA’s witness to Jesus Christ as the only Lord and Savior by helping individual Presbyterians develop a consistent Reformed Christian worldview. Publishers of the journal: Theology Matters
PRESBYTERIANS FOR RENEWAL
Mobilizing the leaders of congregations within the PCUSA to be biblically faithful and missionally minded in their service to Jesus Christ.
PRESBYTERIAN FORUM
The Presbyterian Forum is an organization made up of members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) who are working for reformation through overt political action.
VOICES OF ORTHODOX WOMEN
Voices of Orthodox Women is a nationwide network of people committed to renew and reform the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through the promotion of the doctrines and practices of historic, biblical, and confessional orthodoxy against those of an encroaching culture.
RENEWAL AND REFORMATION:
ACT 3, ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION
We serve the Christian Church as an educational and evangelistic resource. The desire from the beginning has been to encourage doctrinal and ethical reformation joined with informed prayer for spiritual awakening
INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY
The IRD is an ecumenical alliance of U.S. Christians working to reform our churches social witness in accord with Biblical and historic teaching.
TOUCHSTONE MAGAZINE, A JOURNAL OF MERE CHRISTIANITY
Touchstone is a Christian journal, conservative in doctrine and eclectic in content, with editors and readers from each of the three great divisions of Christendom — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox. The mission of the journal and its publisher, The Fellowship of St. James, is to provide a place where Christians of various backgrounds can speak with one another on the basis of shared belief in the fundamental doctrines of the faith as revealed in Holy Scripture and summarized in the ancient creeds of the Church.
ALLIANCE OF CONFESSING EVANGELICALS
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals is a broad coalition of evangelical Christians from various denominations, including Baptist, Congregational (Independent), Anglican (Episcopal), Presbyterian, Reformed, and Lutheran. The purpose of the Alliance’s existence is to call the Church, amidst a dying culture, to repent of its worldliness, to recover and confess the truth of God’s Word as did the reformers, and to see that truth embodied in doctrine, worship, and life
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF COVENANTING CONGREGATIONS within the UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
The National Alliance of Covenanting Congregations is a fellowship of likeminded United Church of Canada congregations committed to upholding the historic Christian faith and morality.
FELLOWSHIP MAGAZINE
We are a publication supported by the renewal groups within the United Church of Canada. Our mandate is to speak from the heart of the tradition of the United Church of Canada, an evangelical perspective that honours the great theological heritage of the Christian Faith and the particular witness of the United Church of Canada.
http://www.fellowshipmagazine.org
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
BIBLICAL WITNESS FELLOWSHIP
The Biblical Witness Fellowship is a confessing fellowship of ordinary people and pastors within the United Church of Christ. We welcome all who are committed to Jesus Christ as Lord and who believe that God’s written Word, the Bible, is true.
FAITHFUL AND WELCOMING
We are a fellowship of ECOT (evangelical, conservative, orthodox, or traditional) Christians, both individuals and churches committed to restoring and living the founding vision of the United Church of Christ.
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN
BRETHREN REVIVAL FELLOWSHIP
Brethren Revival Fellowship (BRF) is a concern movement within the Church of the Brethren, seeking to call the Church to a firm stand for the authority of the Scriptures, and to an emphasis upon the teachings of the New Testament as historically understood by the Brethren.
UNITED METHODIST
GOOD NEWS METHODIST
A renewal ministry within the United Methodist Church. For 40 years, Good News has been a voice for evangelical and historic Wesleyan concerns within our church. We are committed to being a voice for repentance, an agent for reform, and a catalyst for renewal within our denomination.
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BRISTOL HOUSE PUBLISHERS
Publishing curriculum, books and resources from an evangelical United Methodist perspective to strengthen and equip the church of Jesus Christ.
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ALDERSGATE RENEWAL MINISTRIES
Aldersgate Renewal Ministries is the “working name’ of the United Methodist Renewal Services Fellowship, a network of United Methodists who are praying and working together for the spiritual renewal of our church by the power of the Holy Spirit.
www.aldersgaterenewal.org
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METHODIST LAITY REFORM MOVEMENT
Methodist Laity Reform Movement is a growing movement of Iowans who are loyal members of The United Methodist Church. We are working to reform our Church, get the Church out of partisan politics, and help it return to its Wesleyan roots as an alive, growing, evangelical Church that strongly upholds the traditional Christian faith and joyfully offers Christ to all people.
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RENEW
The Renew Network is organized to be in ministry to and with women of the United Methodist Church. We are a support network for evangelical, orthodox women within our church, providing a voice for their concerns, supplemental program resources for their program needs, and a place for them to share ministry with other women. In addition to working for renewal, RENEW calls for the reform of the Women’s Division of the General Board of Global Ministries, the agency charged with oversight of the programs, policies and spending of United Methodist Women.
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THE CONFESSING MOVEMENT
We are United Methodists who love our church and who are centered on Christ. We are committed to renewing the United Methodist Church by promoting biblical truth and by praying for God’s spirit to unite his people around our Lord and Savior Jesus.
www.confessingumc.org
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UNITED METHODIST ACTION
UMAction defends traditional Christian beliefs and practices in the spirit of the father of Methodism, John Wesley. UMAction goes to church agency meetings, studies church publications, and interviews church officials. UMAction publishes its findings in news publications as well as in its own UMAction Briefing.
TRANSFORMING CONGREGATIONS
Equipping the local church to model and minister sanctified sexuality through Biblical instruction, Personal and Public Witness, Compassionate Outreach
