Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada explained

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]

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

• Baptists in Canada
• Sovereign Grace Baptists

Notes and References

1. Book: Appendix. Christianity and ethnicity in Canada. 2008. 2009. Bramadat, Paul . Seljak, David . amp . 978-0-8020-9584-8. University of Toronto Press . https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4HzXN4HQkQC&pg=PA411.
2. Web site: Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Constitution. 8 Feb 2012.
3. Taylor Murray, Paul R. Wilson, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism, 1878-1978, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2022, p. 293
4. Web site: Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Introduction. 8 Feb 2012.
5. Web site: Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada Website: Member Churches. 11 Feb 2012.
6. Web site: Barnabas. 8 February 2012.
7. Web site: Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College: Mission. 11 Feb 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20111010144002/http://tbs.edu/mission/. 2011-10-10.