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Mission Covenant Church of Norway

Misjonskirken Norge
Founder	Fredrik Franson and Gustav Adolph Lammers
Location	Norway
Membership	11,087 (2019)
Official language	Norwegian
Website	https://mknu.no

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The Mission Covenant Church of Norway (Norwegian: Misjonskirken Norge, formerly Det Norske Misjonsforbund, DNM) is an assembly of dissident or free Christian churches founded in 1884 through the encouragement of the Swedish-American evangelist Fredrik Franson. Gustav Adolph Lammers, the role model for Ibsen's Brand, is perceived as the spiritual father of the Mission Covenant Church of Norway. Today it comprises ninety-nine independent churches scattered all over Norway.

The Mission Covenant Church of Norway is registered as a separate denomination, but each individual with the association has the freedom to practice the beliefs of their respective Norwegian Church groups. Each member is also free to practice their own forms of Holy Communion and baptism (infant baptism vs. adult baptism).

Its churches' work involves church services, Sunday schools, scout, and youth associations. The Mission Covenant Church of Norway predominantly emphasizes evangelism and missionary work. The Mission Covenant Church of Norway has about eight-thousand two hundred registered members – in addition to those who have chosen to remain as members of the Church of Norway.

Stagedive is a camp organized by the church each year and held all over Norway for youths between twelve and sixteen years.

Henrik Ibsen's Brand

The first dissident congregation in Norway was established by the priest in Skien, Gustav Adolph Lammers, who resigned from his post in the Church of Norway. Lammers is perceived as a role model for the character Brand in the play of the same name. Ibsen's mother and especially his sister, Hedvig, were ardent followers of Lammers. The Mission Covenant Church in Skien is seen as the direct offspring of this dissident congregation.

Overseas missions

In Hong Kong and Macau, the church is known by its Chinese name: Jīdūjiào Shèngyuē Jàohuì (基督教聖約教會).

References

1. Hans Raun Iversen, Rites of ordination and commitment in the churches of the Nordic countries, p.260
2. Arie Nicolaas Jan den Hollander, Contagious conflict: The impact of American dissent on European life, p.226-227

External links

• The Mission Covenant Church of Norway - Main page
• The Mission Covenant Church of Norway - Main page (old version)
• The Mission Covenant Church of Norway - Hong Kong field website
• - Macau field website

• Churches in Norway
• Christian missionary societies
• Protestantism in Norway