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Exhibit 431

ECFA History

Exhibit 431 ยท Organization history

ECFA History

challenged them to police their own mission agencies as a "Christian Better Business Bureau" or face the potential of government intervention.

ECFA's account of its founding in 1979 after Senator Mark Hatfield challenged evangelical leaders to police their own organizations.

Source
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
Date
read 9 November 2026
Quoted from
ECFA History, paragraph 3
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.ecfa.org/Content/GeneralBackground
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding REL-4.9
Primary record The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, founded in 1979, accredits more than 2,700 member churches and ministries that join voluntarily, affirm an evangelical Christian statement of faith and have an independent CPA audit, review or compile their financial statements, and it states that it is not an auditor. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a voluntary diocesan financial reporting resolution under which each suffragan bishop sends his metropolitan archbishop a letter stating that his finance council reviewed audited statements.