Unity and The ECFE
Making up almost all of Ethiopian Christians who are not members of the Orthodox, Catholic, Oneness Pentecostal, or Jehovah Witnesses, the umbrella ECFE has become a uniting mechanism for the P'ent'ay community.
ECFE, or Evangelical Church Fellowship of Ethiopia, mostly covers all of the Evangelical Christian churches who are born-again Christians and believe in the ideology of the Trinity. There are 22 denominations under this religious umbrella and based on 2004 statistics their total membership numbers have reached 11.5 million and had an increase of 4 million annually. All churches, regardless of denomination, are domestically known as Abiate kristianat means churches in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. Most of them also own ministries, colleges and bible societies like Ethiopian Graduate school of Theology, Golden Oil Ministries, Evangelical Theological college, Ethiopian Bible society and Meserete Kristos college. These churches often work together by exchanging preachers and organizing conferences.
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