The Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission

What has become known as the Antiochian Evangelical Orthodox Mission (AEOM) is part of a movement among Evangelicals and other Protestant Christians toward liturgical and sacramental worship, and toward the rediscovery of the faith and practice of the historic church. During the 1960s, a group of leaders in Campus Crusade for Christ, including Peter E. Gillquist, Jon Braun, Jack Sparks, J. Richard Ballew, Gordon T. Walker, and Kenneth Berven, became increasingly dissatisfied with the disconnection between evangelism and the church. In their evangelistic efforts on the college campus, the church was virtually nonexistent as a corporate visible entity. Converts were generally left to their own individual experience of faith and not well integrated into communities of worship and faith development. Beginning in 1968, these persons left the staff of Campus Crusade and pursued their own ministries in different parts of the United States. In 1973, they resumed their relationship with one…