The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada is a denomination with churches across Canada - 427 of them to be exact. And on any given Sunday, about 120,000 people are in our churches worshiping God. Our Sea to Sea initiative also reaches out to new communities, immigrant groups and other unreached peoples from coast to coast.
You can add to that, the fact that we have approximately 230 International Workers ministering in the Four S regions - Silk Road (Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia); Caribbean Sun (Latin America); Desert Sand (Africa) and Asian Spice (Asia).
But 'the Alliance' is more - much more - than that!
Around the world
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There are Alliance churches in 81 countries with more than 14,500 churches, unorganized church groups and preaching points. Of those, more than 10,000 are officially organized churches.
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There are almost two million baptized members.
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There are approximately four million attending Alliance churches (members and adherents) on any given Sunday.
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There are more than 5,700 ordained ministers and over 28,000 workers, ministering in those churches and to those people.
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Many of them come from the 116 full-term theological schools supported by the Alliance around the world.
Uniting this vast number of churches, peoples and nations is the Alliance World Fellowship (AWF). Rev. Arie Verduijn, President of the Alliance World Fellowship, is from Holland and has spoken at General Assemblies in Edmonton (2006) and at Antalya (2010). Canadian Rev. Wilson Kaan currently acts as AWF treasurer. The AWF Quadrennial Conference is held every four years, bringing together the nations. The next Quadrennial is scheduled to be held in Canada in 2012.
