Evangelical Free

The Evangelical Free Church is one of the top denominations for Brethren to have served, with many as pastors and laymen alike, not to mention at least twenty who have served the EFCA (USA) and EFCC (Canada) educational institutions.

One can find the complete list of Brethren-rooted faculty/staff here.

Contents

Trinity Evangelical Divinity Seminary (TEDS), Deerfield, Illinois

• Lois Armstrong
• Ken Botton
• David G. Dunbar
• Lois C. Fleming
• Murray Harris
• Marilyn Hoekstra
• W. Bingham Hunter
• Joseph Henry Irizarri
• S. Lewis Johnson
• James Herbert Kane
• Winifred Mary Kane
• Michael Leary
• Paul E. Leonard
• Walter Liefeld
• Paul Little
• Fraser McKenzie

Trinity Western University (TWU), Langley, British Columbia

• Bob Burkinshaw - History professor & Dean of Humanities ('83-'20+)
• Jim Burkinshaw - Professor of Management Accounting ('03-18+)
• Ted Goshulak - University Librarian ('03-18+)
• Kevin Sawatsky Vice Provost of Business Dean (’11-’13), School of Business Dean (’14-18+), University Legal Counsel (’08-‘18+) & Prof of Law (’93-‘18+)

Brethren Assemblies now Evangelical Free

• Dawson Gospel Hall, YT founded in 1946. The first and last Brethren assembly in the Yukon. In the early 1970's, it was taken over by SEND International, and renamed Dawson Community Gospel Chapel. In 1999 they joined the EFCC and shortened to name to Dawson Community Chapel. See link for further history.
• Faith Evangelical Free of Manhattan, KS; Never PB but one of its core families, Dale & Mary Jo Hawkinson, were involved in the 1970's in a Brethren-inspired hive known as the Blitz movement, now known as Great Commission Churches, and two of their sons serve in leadership within Hutchinson Gospel Chapel, KS, an elder (Andrew) and deacon (Nathanael), and another son (Joseph) serves as a deacon at Topeka Gospel Chapel, KS. Their son Andrew also served as a student body president at Emmaus Bible College in the late 1990's, and presently serves as resident program director of Kansas Bible Camp, an assembly-rooted children's camp founded in the mid 1940's.
• Villa Park Evangelical Free Church 1931-present; Started as a hive-off from Lombard Gospel Chapel, IL, which is presently one of the largest, healthiest Brethren meetings in the Chicago area. The Villa Park assembly joined with the EFCA and is presumed to be what is now Harvard Avenue Evangelical Free Church, see the link.

Notable Evangelical Free brethren with Brethren connections

• Arnold D. Ehlert - Head Librarian @ Dallas Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, & Talbot School of Theology (article TBA); Authored Brethren Writers, the most comprehensive aid for Brethren book/magazine collecting, published in 1969 by Baker Books, reproduced and revised in the link with permission of the author's son.
• Leonard H. Laine born, born again, and introduced to the assemblies in England, and stationed in Gibraltar for eighteen months in fellowship with Gibraltar Gospel Hall (1954-1955). He was then with Osgoode Bible Chapel, ON (1956), Cochrane Bible Chapel (1957-1960), then started a fellowship in his home in 1960 that met in various homes thru the early 1980's in Williams Lake, sharing in fellowship in the 1970's-1980's with Williams Lake Evangelical Free Church, which he focused sole attention in in the 1990's, while broadcasting assembly preachers on an area radio station; His home assembly in Williams Lake served as inspiration for Horse Lake Christian Fellowship, BC (1983-2020+) in 100 Mile House. See link (in his name) for fuller biography.
• John Nicholson - introduced to the assemblies in childhood via family friends in Bancroft, Ontario, then studied at Prairie Hills Bible Institute in the mid-1970's, earning his Bachelors degree in Bible. Then was in fellowship with Bethany Chapel of Calgary, AB 1975-1985 under the direction of Gary Inrig. Pastored an EFCC church in Three Hills, AB, has pastored Williams Lake Evangelical Free Church since about 2015.