The Evangelical Free Church of America was formed in 1950 by the merger of two church bodies: the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association. Both groups had been birthed in the revival movements of the late nineteenth century. The Swedish group had its formal beginnings in Boone, Iowa, at a conference held in October of 1884. In that same year, two Norwegian-Danish groups began to worship and fellowship together in Boston, Massachusetts and Tacoma, Washington. By 1912, both the Swedish Evangelical Free Church and the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Free Church Association had been formed. Those two associations, representing 275 local congregations, were formally joined together as they gathered for a merger conference in June of 1950 at the Medicine Lake Conference Grounds near Minneapolis, Minnesota. The international and national offices of the EFCA have been located in Minneapolis since the merger took place. Trinity Evangelical Free Church History During the last quarter of the nineteenth century in America, Danish and Norwegian immigrants, who had been participants in the free church movement in the homelands, began to evangelize. In 1882 Lars Haubro started preaching in a rented hall at 201 Orange Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Soon after in 1887, the "Danish Evangelical Free Church" was formed with thirty-two charter members. In 1900 the name was changed to "The Danish-Norwegian Evangelical Free Church." The church was first located in New Haven on Cedar Street (1903-1923) then Elm and Platt Streets (1923-1972) and finally at its present location on Center Road in nearby Woodbridge. During the early years of the church, all services were conducted in the Danish-Norwegian language. This continued until 1910 when the Young People's Services and the Sunday School were conducted in English.  In 1934 the name changed to "The Evangelical Free Church of New Haven, Connecticut," and thereafter English was spoken in all services.