In 1968, when the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged with the Methodists to form the United Methodists, many of the Evangelical United Brethren Churches in the Northwest, Montana, and North Dakota withdrew from the merger.

These churches subsequently formed a fellowship which now numbers over 120 churches across America and Canada. They share a common theological heritage in the Wesleyan-Arminian movement. The Evangelical Church has always been mission minded, with board relationships with OMS International, World Gospel Mission, and Wycliffe and just recently their own Evangelical Mission Board with its work in Bolivia, Mexico, Germany, Brazil and among the Navajo.