Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada

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Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada (SGF) is a fellowship for Reformed Baptist churches in Canada [1] holding to either the Baptist Confessions of 1644 or 1689. [2]

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History

The Fellowship was founded in 1983 by William Payne, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in Burlington, Ontario. [3]

In 2001, the Fellowship adopted a constitution. [4] As of 2012, there were 14 churches, including the Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto. [5]

SGF publishes a magazine called Barnabas. [6] It is one of the Baptist groups associated with the Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bramadat, Paul & Seljak, David (2009). "Appendix". Christianity and ethnicity in Canada. University of Toronto Press. p. 2008. ISBN   978-0-8020-9584-8.
  2. ↑ "Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Constitution" . Retrieved 8 Feb 2012.
  3. ↑ Taylor Murray, Paul R. Wilson, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2022, p. 293
  4. ↑ "Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Introduction" . Retrieved 8 Feb 2012.
  5. ↑ "Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Member Churches" . Retrieved 11 Feb 2012.
  6. ↑ "Barnabas" . Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  7. ↑ "Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College: Mission". Archived from the original on 2011-10-10. Retrieved 11 Feb 2012.


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