Eric Michel Ministries

International

A New Life Catholic Franciscan Ministry (O.F.S.)

Province of the Three Marys – North America

A not-for-profit Religious Corporation

We are an Independent Catholic mission devoted to prayer, Eucharistic adoration, and Marian spirituality, seeking to bring souls closer to Jesus Christ through a life of simplicity, devotion, and love.

Eric Michel Ministries International is a Catholic Franciscan apostolate dedicated to:

Spiritual formation and renewal
Pastoral care and sacramental life
Evangelization rooted in tradition
Fraternal community in the Franciscan spirit

Guided by the charism of simplicity, humility, and charity, this ministry seeks to bring souls into deeper communion with Christ and His Church.

Our Mission

To live and share the Gospel in the spirit of Saint Francis:

To restore faith where it has grown cold
To accompany those seeking God
To build a visible and living community of prayer

Our Denomination Members

United Methodist of Africa and Methodist Episcopal
New Hope Ministry & Missions Independent Baptist Ministry
Pentecostal Ministry
New Life Independent Catholic Ministry
Evangelical
Prebytarian
Secular Buddhist Ministry

HISTORY

In the spring of 2017, the Rev. B. Philip Kumar of the Pentecostal Church in Vadapalli, India, and the Rev. Xaviour Sebastian Chikwatu of the United Methodist Church in Malawi requested to work with us.

The “Eric Michel Ministries International ministry of the Interdenominational Assembly of Churches was born upon the teaching of Christ. We are an association of member churches and para-churches serving members in over 85 head churches worldwide. Through our local churches and our online ministries, we provide a Seminary, a Bible Academy, a missions outreach program, and resources such as counselling and a support committee for Ecclesiastical rules and order, via our Canon Law and Ecclesiastical College (House of Bishops), and much more.

The IAoC is divided into five regions, Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, overseen by a “District Superintendent Bishop”, who provides the management and spiritual support to the churches that he is responsible for.

Canada is the central headquarters, where Archbishop Eric M. Gagnon (Minister & Founder of Eric Michel Ministries International) is the international Elected Prelate and executive director of the Board of EMMI. Members vote every year on resolutions and other business of EMMI IAoC. All Ministers serve under the annual assembly named the Synode Symposium.

The Interdenominational Assembly of Churches Ministry Association (IAoC) was created in 2017, and we had our 1st Symposium in January 2018. Then we had only four (4) church affiliate members and two associate members. In the last months of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, we have 18 church members or Christian organizations represented by 83 Ecclesiastic persons from Nepal, India, Pakistan, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Canada, Cameroon, Togo & Ghana, Brazil, USA and Burundi.

About the site

The Interdenominational Assembly of Churches is an association of churches, para-churches, clergy, and lay leaders.

Our messages are for the glory of God, and our posts reflect it.

Our members are African Evangelists, African Methodists, African Presbyterians, Canadian Baptists, Canadian and American Catholics, and, in the majority, African and Asian Pentecostals.

AFRICA

AMERICA

ASIA

EMMI-IAoC Ministries (Catholic)

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In solidarity,

Brother Eric

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