| Grace Gospel Fellowship | |
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| Classification | Evangelical Protestant |
| Orientation | Dispensational |
| Polity | Congregational |
| Headquarters | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Origin | 1944 |
| Congregations | 107 (2020) |
| Members | 60,000 (1992) |
| Official website | ggfusa |
Grace Gospel Fellowship is a Christian denomination in the United States associated with the Grace Movement. The denomination has its headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]
The Church has roots in a conference of pastors in 1943, in Indianapolis. [2] Grace Gospel Fellowship was founded in 1944. [3] In 1992 it had an estimated 60,000 members in 128 churches. [4] In 2021, Bryan Walker become the President of the Grace Gospel Fellowship and has adopted the mission statement to be "Healthy Pastors, Healthy Boards & Healthy Churches". [5] As of 2020, 107 churches were listed in the Fellowship's church directory. [6]
It is dispensational and premillennial in its theology, [4] and holds to a congregational church polity. [7]
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