Evangelical Free Church of Malaysia
[2][3] The Malacca Evangelical Free Church held its first worship service in a rented government building on 17 November 1963.The EFCM expanded to the Malaysian capital in 1967 when a new church was established in Petaling Jaya, which was then a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, at the initiative of McMurray and Sawatsky.[3] A fourth church was planted in Overseas Union Garden, a suburb closer to the city centre in 1974 and in 1978 the EFCM was formally registered as a society with the government.This is expressed in the nature and function of the EFCM which operates as a national coordinating body without authority over the local churches.[5] In its Statement of faith, EFCM affirms the absolute authority and inerrancy of the Bible for all Christian faith and practice, the Trinitarian nature of God; atonement in the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ and his resurrection; original sin; Christ as head of the church and the local church's right to self government; the personal, premillennial, and imminent return of Christ; the bodily resurrection of the dead; and the two ordinances of water baptism and the Lord's Supper.