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An Answer to the call...

ECF was founded by Rev. Jousette Anaya in June of 1991 and is the first born ministry of the Jousette Anaya Ministries family. ECF was established in obedience to the mandate the Lord gave Bishop Anaya to 'touch the world for Jesus Christ' and it has become the breeding ground for future pastors, leaders and evangelists.

Pastor Josie felt the call of God at a very young age. Knowing that God had called her since her childhood, her mother, the late Pastor Rosa Anaya, directed her steps and trained her in the ways of the Lord. By the age of 16, Pastor Anaya was an evangelist and by the age of 18 she was a missionary. At the age of 21, while she was still an employee of the federal government, God called her to full time ministry as a pastor. Leaving her career, she answered this call and in June of 1991, she was ordained under the sponsorship of the Open Door Ministry which was headed by Pastor Rosa.


 

Do not despise the days of small beginnings...


      Without a building and with a small congregation of 13 people, Pastor Josie began to hold meetings on the 2nd floor of an apartment building located in Rising Sun Ave. in Philadelphia. This ministry was born as an extension of the 'Iglesia Puerta Abierta' (Open Door Church). It later incorporated as Emmanuel Christian Fellowship as an independent, non-denominational ministry.