"The Northwest Conference has been an invaluable resource for Excelsior Covenant as we prepare for the retirement of our senior pastor. Jim Fretheim and the Conference staff have spent untold hours meeting with our committees and congregation-and provided us with excellent resources-to lay the foundation for a successful senior pastor search. The conference is an enthusiastic partner in ministry for us."
We are a regional conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), which is a rapidly growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God's grace and ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through a faith with Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God's love and compassion to a hurting world, and the strength the comes from unity within diversity.
We are:
- Evangelical, but not exclusive
- Biblical, but not doctrinaire
- Traditional, but not rigid
- Congregational, but not independent
