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File:Tabernacle of Summit Campground.jpg|thumb|The tabernacle of Summit Campground, where the Evangelical Wesleyan Church holds its Eastern Annual Conference, as well as a camp meetingcamp meeting The Evangelical Wesleyan Church, formerly known as the Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America, is a Methodist denomination in the conservative holiness movement.WEB, Brock, Chris, In Star Lake, a radiant devotion to a cause as old church gets new life,www.nny360.com/communitynews/faithperspectives/in-star-lake-a-radiant-devotion-to-a-cause-as-old-church-gets-new-life/article_8669a761-e93e-5a4c-a323-a4d79d533d11.html, Watertown Daily Times, 7 December 2021, English, 5 December 2021, The Hunters conferenced, served and pastored many years with the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, a Methodist denomination in the conservative holiness movement., The formation of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States; its creation was the result of a schism with the Free Methodist Church in 1963.BOOK, Kostlevy, William, Historical Dictionary of the Holiness Movement, 3 August 2009, Scarecrow Press, English, 9780810863187, 31, In 1969, it merged with the Midwest Holiness Association, which had also left the Free Methodist Church.BOOK, Melton, J. Gordon, Encyclopedia of American Religions, 2003, Gale, English, 9780787663841, 429, The Evangelical Wesleyan Church was founded with a commitment to uphold the doctrine and standards of traditional Methodism.BOOK, Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute Handbook, 2018, LWD Publishing, Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, Cooperstown, English, BOOK, Lewis, James R., The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, 2002, Prometheus Books, Publishers, English, 9781615927388, 356, It has twenty-seven congregations.The Church publishes a periodical known as The Earnest Christian and its seminary is the Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute (EWBI) in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania. Much of the denomination’s literature is printed by LWD Publishing.It holds a denomination-wide camp meeting at Summit Campground in Cooperstown, Pennsylvania and its General Conference at Camp Nysted in Nysted, Nebraska.WEB,newspaperarchive.com/titusville-herald-jun-27-1981-p-5/, Brevities, 27 June 1981, Titusville Herald, 17 July 2018, WEB,www.theindependent.com/life/only-by-gravel-road-can-you-reach-nysted-s-old/article_ddc0c753-7f5a-5863-b30c-ec17b41e2c81.html, Only by gravel road can you reach Nysted’s old Lutheran church, 20 March 2003, The Grand Island Independent, English, 17 July 2018, Once a part of the Danish organization, the complex currently belongs to the Evangelical Wesleyan Methodist Camp organization, which conducts summer camps at the location.,

See also

• Fellowship of Independent Methodist Churches
• Reformed Free Methodist Church

References

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Further reading

• BOOK, A Catechism Prepared Especially for the Members of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, 2014, LWD Publishing, Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, Cooperstown,
• BOOK, Evangelical Wesleyan Bible Institute Handbook, 2018, LWD Publishing, Cooperstown, Pennsylvania, Cooperstown,

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