The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) was founded in 1942 as a fresh, unifying voice for biblical, Christ-centered faith — a deliberate "middle way" between the separatist fundamentalism of the American Council of Christian Churches and the theological liberalism of the Federal Council of Churches. NAE's founders were committed to serious, thoughtful evangelical community engagement leading to human flourishing in all its dimensions. More than 80 years later, the NAE remains the largest and most established network of evangelical Christians in the United States.

The NAE's mission is to honor God by connecting, resourcing, and representing evangelical Christians. We believe we are called to contribute to be an influence for good in every aspect of our world. Achieving that goal requires working together both within and beyond our faith community. Our constituency includes individual supporters and institutional members spanning more than 40 denominations and thousands of churches, schools, and nonprofit organizations, unified by the conviction that collective action accomplishes far more than any single church or ministry could achieve alone. As the nation's largest umbrella organization for evangelicals, the NAE unites millions of believers across theological and political spectrums around shared conviction and common cause.

Our vision is to strengthen a thriving and engaged evangelical community equipped to navigate complexity with biblical clarity — a community that is strong and effective in its witness, that influences society toward justice, and whose many voices, gathered together, carry more weight than they could individually. Central to this vision is our core conviction that evangelicals are called to be an influence for good: uniting and mobilizing members in service to our neighbors and our nation.

Our Work

NAE's work encompasses four core areas:

• Strengthening Church and Faith Partners. We work to make denominations strong and effective, and to support churches, colleges and universities, and para-church ministries. The breadth and diversity of our partner network allows us to convene gatherings, produce resources, and catalyze movements that no single organization could accomplish alone.
• Government Relations. We represent evangelical concerns to government at the federal, state, and local levels, and mobilize evangelicals to engage constructively in the public sphere. Our foundational resource, For the Health of the Nation, along with our public policy resolutions, guides this engagement — including our long-standing, priority work on immigration and, recently, building support for continued public and private humanitarian and public health interventions.
• Partnership for Faith and Flourishing. A new initiative launching in the fall of 2026 will build new partnerships within and beyond the evangelical Christian community to tackle big issues including ethical AI development and use, racial justice and reconciliation, and mental health.
• Gospel Beauty and Breadth. We seek to inspire evangelical Christians and others to increased community service by highlighting stories of real impact in solving problems and improving the quality of life, especially for the most vulnerable.
• Evangelical Chaplains Commission. We provide support and endorsement for evangelicals ministering as chaplains across three branches of the U.S. military, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and civilian institutions including hospitals and prisons.
• Global Engagement, carried out primarily through two key partnerships:
  • World Relief, founded in 1944 as the War Relief Commission of the NAE, serves as our relief and development arm, working through local churches worldwide — and across the United States — to address some of the world's most pressing humanitarian challenges, including forced migration and displacement.
  • World Evangelical Alliance, through which the NAE participates in a global network operating in more than 130 countries to support and promote the full expression of evangelical faith worldwide.

• Communications. We use multiple channels to speak to our members, to the wider communities that they serve, including immigrant communities, and to our nation and its leaders. Our website at NAE.org houses over 120 resources related to immigration. We publish a magazine, a monthly newsletter for our members, as well as podcasts, webinars, special reports and social media posts. We also write and place op-eds and cultivate earned media coverage through press releases, statements, and individualized outreach to reporters. Our president and other staff frequently speak at conferences, to students and faculty in member colleges and universities, in church and denominational gatherings, as well as at events organized by partner organizations. For more information, contact National Association of Evangelicals
  P.O. Box 23269
  Washington, DC 20026
  202.479.0815