The Evangelical Wesleyan Church, formerly known as the Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America, is a

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denomination in the

conservative holiness movement The conservative holiness movement is a loosely defined group of theologically conservative Christian denominations with the majority being Methodists whose teachings are rooted in the theology of John Wesley, and a minority being Quakers (Frie ...

. The formation of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church is a part of the

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; its creation was the result of a

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with the

Free Methodist Church The Free Methodist Church (FMC) is a Methodist Christian denomination within the holiness movement, based in the United States. It is evangelical in nature and is Wesleyan–Arminian in theology. The Free Methodist Church has members in over 100 ...

in 1963. In 1969, it merged with the Midwest Holiness Association, which had also left the Free Methodist Church. The Evangelical Wesleyan Church was founded with a commitment to uphold the doctrine and standards of traditional Methodism. It has twenty-seven congregations. The Church publishes a

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known as ''The Earnest Christian'' and its seminary is the

Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute (EWBI), also informally known as the Evangelical Wesleyan Bible College, is a private four-year Methodist Bible college in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Wesleyan Church (EWC) ...

(EWBI) in

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. Much of the denomination's literature is printed by LWD Publishing. It holds a denomination-wide

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at Summit Campground in

and its General Conference at Camp Nysted in

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