History
The Movement's first initiative was to publish Y Cylchgrawn Efengylaidd (The Evangelical Magazine), of which the first edition was November / December 1948. The magazine was originally published in Welsh and soon after a sister magazine was published in English. Editions of the magazine continue to be published every two months in English, and every three months in Welsh, as of 2012.
The General Secretary of the Movement for 45 years and one of its founders was Rev J. Elwyn Davies, he stated:
- the Movement became a focus for fellowship, nurture and service for Christians who found themselves placed at a considerable disadvantage in churches and denominations which, to a very considerable extent, had departed from the main tenets of the Christian faith.
The Movement and Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones (one if its influential supporters), have been influential among Evangelical Christians in Wales and beyond.
Experiencing increased hostility in the 1960s and 1970s within their churches, a number of pastors and congregations sympathetic to the Movement left their denominations and set up independent evangelical churches in many parts of Wales.
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