The Evangelical Congregational (EC) Church began with the conversion of Jacob Albright, a Pennsylvania German farmer, in a Methodist class meeting.
He attempted to convert people to Christianity at a time when the Methodist Church did not allow worship services to be conducted in German.
At the same time, the East Pennsylvania Conference and other congregations of the United Evangelical Church that had abstained from the merger reorganized as the Evangelical Congregational Church and bought the campus of the college that they had supported as the site for a publishing house, retirement home, and educational institution.
[2] Located in the south-central Pennsylvania town of Myerstown, Evangelical’s twelve-acre campus is in the farmlands of Lebanon County.
Evangelical was formerly accredited by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges[3] and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.