Association of Covenant Churches and Ministries

Heritage

The Association of Covenant Churches and Ministries is a small association relating independent congregations and ministries to one another for fellowship, accountability and ministerial credentialing — the pattern common to the relational networks that multiplied in American evangelicalism from the late twentieth century. Its public documentary record is thin, and this record deliberately asserts no founding date, founder or headquarters rather than guess at them.

Theological family

Broadly evangelical, on the covenant-relationship pattern its name announces; specifics beyond that are not publicly documented well enough to state.

Who decides what

An association: member congregations govern themselves and relate voluntarily; such bodies typically credential ministers and provide relational covering without central control.

What a first-time visitor would find

Set by each congregation; no association-wide pattern can be responsibly described.

What it has always cared about

Fellowship and mutual accountability among independent congregations — the need such associations exist to answer.

Its gift to the wider church

Bodies like this one quietly solve a real problem of independent church life: credentialing, counsel and covering for congregations that belong to no denomination.

Commonly confused with

With the many similarly named covenant fellowships and associations among independent churches; the names are generic and the bodies distinct.

Range of views inside it

Unknown beyond the general variety of independent evangelical congregations; this record does not manufacture precision.

Where Association of Covenant Churches and Ministries churches are on the map

1 Association of Covenant Churches and Ministries congregations appear on The Church Map, across 1 states.

• Massachusetts — 1