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The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is an association of evangelical denominations, organizations, schools, churches and individuals, member of the
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. The association represents more than 45,000 local churches from nearly 40 different denominations and serves a constituency of millions. The mission of the NAE is to honor God by connecting and representing evangelicals in the United States. The NAE seeks to strengthen denominations and ministries – offering resources to inform and inspire evangelical leaders and facilitating collaboration among evangelical leaders and groups. The NAE also represents its membership's concerns to Congress, the White House and courts. The NAE Chaplains Commission endorses and supports chaplains in the military and other institutions.
World Relief World Relief (officially, World Relief Corporation of National Association of Evangelicals) is an Evangelical Christian humanitarian nongovernmental organization, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals and a leading refug ...
is the NAE's humanitarian arm. While the NAE headquarters are in Washington, D.C., its staff and constituency live and work all throughout America. The association is currently led by NAE President Walter Kim.


History

The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) was formed by a group of 147 people who met in
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on April 7–9, 1942. The Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy and the related isolation of various evangelical denominations and leaders provided the impetus for developing such an organization. Early leaders in the movement included
Harold Ockenga Harold John Ockenga (June 6, 1905 – February 8, 1985) was a leading figure of mid-20th-century American Evangelicalism, part of the reform movement known as "Neo-Evangelicalism". A Congregational minister, Ockenga served for many years as ...
,
David Otis Fuller David Otis Fuller (November 20, 1903 – February 21, 1988) was an American Baptist pastor. He was a graduate of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois and Princeton Theological Seminary. He pastored Chelsea Baptist Church in Atlantic City, New J ...
, Will Houghton,
Harry A. Ironside Henry Allan "Harry" Ironside (October 14, 1876 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, and author who pastored Moody Church in Chicago from 1929 to 1948. Biography Ironside was born in Toronto, O ...
, Bob Jones, Sr., Paul S. Rees,
Leslie Roy Marston Leslie Roy Marston was an American Bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America, elected in 1935. He also served as President of the National Association of Evangelicals The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is an association o ...
, John R. Rice, Charles Woodbridge, and J. Elwin Wright. Houghton called for a meeting in
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in 1941. A committee was formed with Wright as chairman, and a national conference for United Action Among Evangelicals was called to meet in April 1942. Harold Ockenga was appointed the first president (1942–44).
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and Harvey Springer led in organizing the American Council of Christian Churches (now with 7 member bodies) in September 1941. It was a more militant and fundamentalist organization set up in opposition to the Federal Council of Churches (now
National Council of Churches The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body in the United States. NCC is an ecumenical partnership of 38 Christian faith groups in the Un ...
with 36 member bodies). McIntire invited the ''Evangelicals for United Action'' to join with them, but those who met in St. Louis declined the offer. The tentative organization founded in 1942 was called the "National Association of Evangelicals for United Action". In 1943 the proposed constitution and doctrinal statement were amended and adopted, and the name shortened to the "National Association of Evangelicals". By the 1950s, NAE's Washington, D.C., office gained a reputation as a service organization that could get things done. President Eisenhower welcomed an NAE delegation to the White House – a first-time honor for the association. The NAE filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in 1982 in
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and Goldsboro Christian Schools v. United States. Federal regulations had denied tax-exempt status to private schools and universities that discriminate on the basis of race, and the NAE unsuccessfully urged the court to overturn those regulations. At the NAE's 1983 conference in Orlando, Florida, NAE President Rev. Arthur Evans Gay, Jr. introduced President
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for what was to become known as his " Evil Empire" speech. The 50th anniversary of the organization was celebrated in 1992 at the annual March Convention at the Chicago Hyatt Hotel. President
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spoke to the
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annual luncheon at the invitation of the organization's president Arthur Gay, making Bush the third President to address the NAE. During the convention
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spoke for the last time at an NAE gathering, calling on evangelicals to a renewed commitment to spread the gospel. In a move signaling its primary focus, the NAE changed its annual convention venue from hotels and convention centers to churches. In 2003, the first church-hosted convention was held at
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in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. President
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, running for reelection in 2004, visited the NAE convention at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., via satellite link and told the delegates, "You cannot endorse me, but I endorse you." In 2004, the NAE adopted "For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility" document as its framework for engagement in political action. Ted Arthur Haggard (/ˈhæɡərd/; born June 27, 1956, an American evangelical pastor and founder and former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, served as President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) from 2003 until November 2006. Haggard made national headlines in November 2006 when male prostitute and masseur Mike Jones alleged that Haggard, who had advocated against the legalization of same-sex marriage, had paid him for sex for three years and had also purchased and used crystal methamphetamine. Haggard resigned his post at New Life Church and his other leadership roles shortly after the allegations became public. Later, Haggard admitted to drug use, some sexual activity with Jones, and an inappropriate relationship with a young man who attended New Life Church.
Leith Anderson Leith Anderson (born 1944) is president emeritus of the National Association of Evangelicals and Baptist pastor emeritus of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, after serving as senior pastor from 1977 through 2011. Early life and education ...
served as interim president twice before he was named president in October 2007. During Anderson’s presidency, the NAE stabilized and grew with expanded membership, significant grant funding and many new staff and programs, including an annual retreat of denomination leaders, NAE Talk consultations, Evangelical Leaders Survey, Evangelicals magazine, Today’s Conversation podcast, and documents and publications including “Code of Ethics for Pastors,” “When God and Science Meet,” “Theology of Sex,” and “For the Health of the Nation” (revised), among others. As NAE president, Anderson regularly taught in seminaries, addressed evangelical concerns with elected officials, counseled denominational executives, and provided theological and cultural commentary to leading news outlets. Walter Kim was elected NAE president at the October 2019 board meeting to begin his role in January 2020. Other leadership elections were made at that board meeting including John Jenkins, senior pastor of
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, to the office of chair of the NAE board; and Jo Anne Lyon, general superintendent emerita and ambassador of The Wesleyan Church, to the office of vice chair.


Initiatives


National Religious Broadcasters

In 1944, the NAE formed the
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(NRB) at its convention in Columbus, Ohio. NRB was the first of many related service agencies NAE would charter with a particular purpose in mind. Following the lead of CBS and NBC, the Mutual Radio Network had announced it would no longer sell time for religious broadcasting and turned the Protestant broadcasting slot over to the
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. NRB, after holding its own constitutional convention later that year, responded to the challenge, eventually persuading the networks to reverse their policies. NRB is now a separate organization.


Evangelical Chaplains Commission

In addition to NRB, NAE created the Chaplains Commission in 1944 to assist evangelical chaplains in the military. The NAE Chaplains Commission continues to provide support and endorsement for evangelicals to minister as chaplains to three branches of the military and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Free exercise and expression of faith in U.S. military institutions is a primary cause that the Chaplains Commission supports. The commission also supports institutional chaplains who serve in hospitals, prisons, workplaces and other areas of ministry.


World Relief

The War Relief Commission was formed in 1944 to address the needs of war-torn Europe. The War Relief Commission sent clothing and food to victims of World War II. After the war, the War Relief Commission expanded its outreach beyond war relief, and its name changed to
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. As the humanitarian arm of the NAE, World Relief offers assistance to victims of poverty, disease, hunger, war, disasters and persecution. The organization has offices worldwide. It is supported by churches and individual donors, as well as through United States Government grants from USAID and other agencies. World Relief's core programs focus on microfinance, AIDS prevention and care, maternal and child health, child development, agricultural training, disaster response, refugee resettlement and immigrant services.


Missio Nexus

In 1945, NAE created the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association (later called the Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies, then The Mission Exchange, and now Missio Nexus). It was chartered to handle the special needs of missionaries and their agencies and is the largest missionary association in the world. Missio Nexus now operates independently of the NAE, though it is a member of the NAE.


New International Version

An NAE initiative in the 1950s with long-range consequences was the formation of a committee in 1957 to explore the possibility of a new translation of the Bible. The National Council had five years earlier released the Revised Standard Version, but the new translation did not prove popular among many evangelicals. The NAE committee began meeting with a similar committee commissioned by the Christian Reformed Church in 1961. By 1965, the two committees formed the independent Committee on Bible Translation and two years later, the New York Bible Society (today the
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) became the official sponsor. In 1978, the first copies of the New International Version of the Bible came off the presses.


For the Health of the Nation

The Evangelical Project for Public Engagement was initiated at the 60th annual convention of the NAE in March 2001. The project team worked to articulate a framework for evangelical civic and political engagement for the 21st century under the direction of Richard Cizik, then-vice president of governmental affairs. The project generated a major volume edited by Diane Knippers and Ronald Sider and published by Baker Books titled "Toward an Evangelical Public Policy." "For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility" calls evangelicals to address seven spheres of social involvement from a biblical framework and also provides specific principles of engagement. The NAE's political action is based on the document, which outlines seven different issues that are important to evangelicals, including religious freedom, family life and protection of children, sanctity of life, caring for the poor and vulnerable, human rights, peacemaking, and caring for creation. While the underlying principles of the document have not changed, the NAE Board of Directors updated and adopted the revised version in 2018. New attention has been called to long-time social ills, including the broken immigration system, sexual harassment and abuse, human trafficking, racial injustice and white supremacy. Concern about these issues was implicit in the original document and is further elaborated in the updated edition, notably through the addition of a section on racial justice and reconciliation.


Member denominations

The following Protestant church denominations were members as of 2017. Many Christian organizations and academic groups are also members. *
Advent Christian Church The Advent Christian Church, also known as the Advent Christian General Conference (ACGC), is a "first-day" body of Adventist Christians founded on the teachings of William Miller in 1860. The organization's Executive Director is Reverend Steve ...
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Assemblies of God USA The Assemblies of God USA (AG), officially the General Council of the Assemblies of God, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States founded in 1914 during a meeting of white Pentecostal ministers at Hot Springs, Arkansas (with e ...
(joined 1943) *
Brethren Church The Brethren Church is an Anabaptist Christian denomination with roots in and one of several groups that trace its origins back to the Schwarzenau Brethren of Germany. Background The Brethren church tradition traces its roots back over 300 ...
, The (joined 1968) *
Brethren in Christ Church The Brethren in Christ Church (BIC) is a River Brethren Christian denomination with roots in the Mennonite church, Radical Pietism, and Wesleyan holiness. They have also been known as River Brethren and River Mennonites. The Canadian denominat ...
(joined 1949) *
Christian and Missionary Alliance The Alliance World Fellowship is the international governing body of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (The Alliance, also C&MA and CMA). The Alliance is an evangelical Protestant denomination within the Higher Life movement of Christianity ...
(joined 1966) * Christian Reformed Church in North America (joined 1943–51; 1988) * Christian Union (joined 1954) *
Church of God (Anderson) Church of God is a name used by numerous denominational bodies. The largest denomination with this name is the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Adventist Churches of God * Church of God General Conference (Church of God of the Ab ...
(joined 2021) *
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) The Church of God, with headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee, United States, is a Holiness Pentecostal Christian denomination. The Church of God's publishing house is Pathway Press. History Origins (1886–1902) R. G. Spurling (1857–1935), ...
(joined 1944) *
Church of the Nazarene The Church of the Nazarene is an evangelicalism, evangelical Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, Lenexa within Johnson Cou ...
(joined 1984) * Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (joined 1951) * Converge Worldwide (previously Baptist General Conference) (joined 1966) * ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians (joined 2015) *
Elim Fellowship Elim Fellowship is a North American–based Pentecostal/charismatic Christian Ministry founded in 1933. Elim Fellowship's headquarters is located in Lima, NY. History Elim Bible Institute was founded in 1924 by Ivan Q. Spencer and his wife M ...
(joined 1947) * Evangelical Church, The (joined 1969) * Evangelical Congregational Church (joined 1962) * Evangelical Free Church of America (joined 1943) *
Evangelical Friends Church International Evangelical Friends Church International (EFCI) is a branch of Quaker yearly meetings (regional associations) around the world that profess evangelical Christian beliefs. Mission statement The mission of the Evangelical Friends Church, Internation ...
(joined 1971) * Evangelical Presbyterian Church (joined 1982) * Every Nation Churches * Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches (joined 1948) *
Fellowship of Evangelical Churches The Fellowship of Evangelical Churches (FEC) is an evangelical body of Christians with an Amish Mennonite heritage that is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. It contains 60 churches located in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, ...
* Foursquare Church, The (joined 1952) *
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 ...
of North America (joined 1944) *
Grace Communion International Grace Communion International (GCI), formerly named the Radio Church of God and Worldwide Church of God, is a Christian denomination with 30,000 members in about 550 churches spread across 70 countries. The denomination is structured in the epis ...
(joined 1997 as Worldwide Church of God) * Great Commission Churches (joined 2007) *
International Pentecostal Church of Christ The International Pentecostal Church of Christ (or IPCC) is an organization formed in 1976 by the merger of two Pentecostal organizations. In 1907, Gaston B. Cashwell, called the ''Apostle of Pentecost in the South'', founded a periodical called '' ...
(joined 1946) *
International Pentecostal Holiness Church The International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) or simply Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1911 with the merger of two older denominations. Historically centered in the Southeaster ...
(joined 1943) *
Missionary Church The Missionary Church is an evangelical Christian denomination of Anabaptist origins with Wesleyan and Pietist influences. Faith and practice The Missionary Church is a Trinitarian body which believes the Bible is the inspired Word of God and ...
, Inc. (joined 1944) *
North American Baptist Conference North American Baptists (NAB) is an association of Baptists in the United States and Canada, generally of German ethnic heritage with roots in Pietism. History The roots of the NAB go back to 1839, when Konrad Anton Fleischmann began work in New J ...
* Open Bible Church (joined 1943) *
Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church (PFWBC) is a church group in the southern United States, best thought of as Pentecostal rather than Baptist. The PFWBC is historically and theologically a combination of both, having begun as a small group o ...
(joined 1988) *
Presbyterian Church in America The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is the second-largest Presbyterian church body, behind the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the largest conservative Calvinist denomination in the United States. The PCA is Reformed in theology and presb ...
(joined 1986, voted to leave June 22, 2022 at PCA General Assembly in Birmingham, AL) *
Primitive Methodist Church The Primitive Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination with the holiness movement. It began in England in the early 19th century, with the influence of American evangelist Lorenzo Dow (1777–1834). In the United States, the Primit ...
USA (joined 1946) * Royalhouse Chapel International (joined 2016) *
Salvation Army Salvation (from Latin: ''salvatio'', from ''salva'', 'safe, saved') is the state of being saved or protected from harm or a dire situation. In religion and theology, ''salvation'' generally refers to the deliverance of the soul from sin and its c ...
, The (joined 1990)
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference of the USA & Canada
(joined 2018) *
Transformation Ministries Transformation Ministries is a Baptist Christian denomination in the United States. The headquarters is in Covina, California. History It was formed in 2006 when the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest separated from the Amer ...
* United Brethren in Christ (joined 1953) *
U.S. Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Churches The US Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (USMB) is an association of Mennonite Brethren Churches in the United States. Background On January 6, 1860, a small group of Mennonites in Ukraine, influenced by Moravian Brethren and Lutheran Pietis ...
(joined 1946) *
Vineyard A vineyard (; also ) is a plantation of grape-bearing vines, grown mainly for winemaking, but also raisins, table grapes and non-alcoholic grape juice. The science, practice and study of vineyard production is known as viticulture. Vineyards ...
USA, The * Wesleyan Church, The (joined 1948)


Board Chair (called President until 1992)

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Harold Ockenga Harold John Ockenga (June 6, 1905 – February 8, 1985) was a leading figure of mid-20th-century American Evangelicalism, part of the reform movement known as "Neo-Evangelicalism". A Congregational minister, Ockenga served for many years as ...
(1942–1944) *
Leslie Roy Marston Leslie Roy Marston was an American Bishop of the Free Methodist Church of North America, elected in 1935. He also served as President of the National Association of Evangelicals The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) is an association o ...
(1944–46) *
Rutherford Decker Rutherford Losey Decker (May 27, 1904 – September 21, 1972) was an American politician who was a longtime member and a Presidential nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960, and the president of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1946 to ...
(1946–48) * Stephen W. Paine (1948–50) *
Frederick C. Fowler Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederi ...
(1950–52) *
Paul S. Rees Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(1952–54) *
Henry H. Savage Henry may refer to: People * Henry (given name) * Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portuga ...
(1954–56) *
Paul P. Petticord Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(1956–58) * Herbert S. Mekeel (1958–60) * Thomas F. Zimmerman (1960–62) * Robert A. Cook (1962–64) *
Jared F. Gerig Jared is a given name of Biblical derivation. Origin In the Book of Genesis, the biblical patriarch Jared (יֶרֶד) was the sixth in the ten pre-flood generations between Adam and Noah; he was the son of Mahalaleel and the father of Eno ...
(1964–66) * Rufus Jones (1966–68) *
Arnold Olson Arnold may refer to: People * Arnold (given name), a masculine given name * Arnold (surname), a German and English surname Places Australia * Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria Canada * Arnold, Nova Scotia ...
(1968–70) * Hudson T. Armerding (1970–72) *
Myron F. Boyd Myron of Eleutherae ( grc, Μύρων, ''Myrōn'' ), working c. 480–440 BC, was an Athenian sculpture, sculptor from the mid-5th century BC. He was born in Eleutherae on the borders of Boeotia and Attica, Greece, Attica. According to Pliny the ...
(1972–74) * Paul E. Toms (1974–76) *
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(1976–78) *
Carl H. Lundquist Carl may refer to: *Carl, Georgia, city in USA *Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name *Carl², a TV series * "Carl", List of Aqua Teen ...
(1978–80) * J. Floyd Williams (1980–82) *
Arthur Evans Gay, Jr. Arthur is a common male given name of Brittonic languages, Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. An ...
(1982–84) *
Robert W. McIntyre The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
(1984–86) * Ray H. Hughes (1986–88) * John H. White (1988–90) * B. Edgar Johnson (1990–92) *
Don Argue Don Argue (born 1939) was the president of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1992 to 1998.Randall Balmer, ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism'', Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, p. 2/ref> He also served as the president of North Central ...
(1992–95) *
Leonard Hoffman Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' ...
(1995–98) * Lamar Vest (1998–2000) * Ed Foggs (2000–02) *
William Hamel William is a male given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norm ...
(2002–06) * L. Roy Taylor (2006–20) * John K. Jenkins, Sr. (2020–present)


President (called "Executive Director" or "General Director" until 1992)

* J. Elwin Wright (1942–47) * Rutherford L. Decker (1948–53) * George L. Ford (1954–64) * Clyde W. Taylor (1964–74) * Arthur M. Climenhaga (1964–67) * Billy A. Melvin (1967–95) *
Don Argue Don Argue (born 1939) was the president of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1992 to 1998.Randall Balmer, ''Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism'', Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, p. 2/ref> He also served as the president of North Central ...
(1992–98) *
Kevin Mannoia Kevin W. Mannoia is the Pastoral Coach at the Rock Church, San Diego. He is a Professor of Ministry and formerly the University Chaplain at Azusa Pacific University. He was the President of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1999 to 2001 ...
(1999–2001) *
Leith Anderson Leith Anderson (born 1944) is president emeritus of the National Association of Evangelicals and Baptist pastor emeritus of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, after serving as senior pastor from 1977 through 2011. Early life and education ...
(2002–03) *
Ted Haggard Ted Arthur Haggard (; born June 27, 1956) is an American evangelical pastor. Haggard is the founder and former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches. He served as pre ...
(2003–06) *
Leith Anderson Leith Anderson (born 1944) is president emeritus of the National Association of Evangelicals and Baptist pastor emeritus of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, after serving as senior pastor from 1977 through 2011. Early life and education ...
(2006–19) * Walter Kim (2020–present)


References


Bibliography

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Harold Lindsell Harold Lindsell (December 22, 1913 – January 15, 1998) was an evangelical Christian author and scholar who was one of the founding members of Fuller Theological Seminary. He is best known for his 1976 book ''The Battle for the Bible''. Linds ...
, ''Park Street Prophet: The Life of Harold John Ockenga'' (Wheaton: Van Kampen, 1951). *
George Marsden George Mish Marsden (born 1939) is an American historian who has written extensively on the interaction between Christianity and American culture, particularly on Christianity in American higher education and on American evangelicalism. He is be ...
, ''Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism'' (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1987). * James DeForest Murch, ''Cooperation without Compromise: A History of the National Association of Evangelicals'' (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1956). * Ronald J. Sider & Dianne Knippers, ed., ''Toward an Evangelical Public Policy'' (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2005). *
John G. Stackhouse, Jr. John Gordon Stackhouse Jr. (born 1960) is a Canadian scholar of religion. As a journalist he has been recognized with over a dozen awards by the Canadian Church Press, and his scholarship has been supported by research grants from the Social Scie ...
, "The National Association of Evangelicals, the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, and the Limits of Evangelical Cooperation," ''Christian Scholar's Review'' 25 (December 1995): 157–179. * Sutton, Matthew Avery. ''American Apocalypse: A history of modern evangelicalism'' (2014)


External links

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