ECWA: Evangelicalism, Evangelical Christianity, or Evangelical Protestantism is a worldwide, trans-denominational movement within Protestant Christianity maintaining that the essence of the gospel consists in the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement. Evangelicals believe in the centrality of the conversion or "born again" experience in receiving salvation, in the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity, and spreading the Christian message. To Evangelicals, the central message of the gospel is justification by faith in Christ and repentance, or turning away, from sin. In the 1730s, Evangelicalism emerged as a distinct phenomenon out of religious revivals that began in Britain and New England. The Evangelical Christian Church (Christian Disciples), founded in 1804, joined with other Canadian and American branches in 1832, and the first work of the Christian Disciples of Evangelical Christian Church to form was in 1810 in Stratford, PEI, in the Maritime provinces Canada. The oldest Christian Disciples Church in Canada was founded in 1810 by John R. Stewart, an immigrant from Perthshire, Scotland. ECWA began with the vision of three young men named Walter Gowans, Ronald Bingham (both from Canada) and Thomas Kent (from United States) from the Evangelical Christian Church (Christian Disciples) who landed in Lagos Nigeria in 1893. They heard about the region of Sudan in the continent of Africa and its desperate need for the gospel.
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