The Fellowship Community
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The Fellowship Community, formerly known as the Fellowship of Presbyterians (FOP), arose from a movement started by seven pastors from some of the largest PCUSA churches in the United States in 2010. The movement gained momentum when they met in August 2011 at a planning and organizational meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota and began drafting essential tenets and refined polity for a new reformed body. A second gathering of the movement in January 2012 resulted in a new denomination known as Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians (ECO).
In June 2014, the FOP parted ways structurally with ECO and shortly thereafter, joined with Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR) to work with gospel-centered congregations and individuals in the PCUSA. (In 1989, the Covenant Fellowship of Presbyterians and Presbyterians United for Biblical Concerns merged to form Presbyterians for Renewal (PFR)—a broad based advocacy and ministry organization.) In August 2014, the FOP and PFR began re-branding to become known as The Fellowship Community. The two groups fully merged in January, 2015.
External links
- The Fellowship Community http://www.fellowship.community/
- Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians http://eco-pres.org/