The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada is an outgrowth of the fundamentalist/modernist controversy in the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, and a descendant of the Union of Regular Baptist Churches formed in 1928 as a result of the controversy. The Fellowship was formed in 1953 by the merger the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec (founded 1927) and the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches (founded 1933). The FEBCC was later enlarged by two western groups, The Regular Baptist Missionary Fellowship of Alberta in 1963 and the Convention of Regular Baptist Churches of British Columbia (founded 1927) in 1965. This article concerns the self-labelled Fundamentalist Movement in Protestant Christianity. ... Modernism, modernist Christianity, and liberalism are labels applied to proponents of a school of Christian thought which rose as a direct challenge to more conservative traditional Christian orthodoxy. ... Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec (BCOQ) - the oldest union of Baptist churches in central Canada. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches is engaged in missions to Africa, Central Asia, Europe, Japan, Latin America, the Middle East, Pakistan, & South America, and offers ministry resources, workshops, pension plans, loans, Baptist Builders, etc., to assist the churches. In 2000, the Fellowship included 496 churches with 65,605 members, and now claims to be one of the largest evangelical groups in Canada. There are 70 French language churches among the 496 churches of the Fellowship. The official magazine of the FEBCC, The Evangelical Baptist, is published five times per year. Headquarters are in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. This article is about the year 2000. ... Guelph (pronounced gwělf) (2004 population 125,872, metropolitan population 155,635) is a city located in southwestern Ontario, Canada, roughly 100 kilometres west of downtown Toronto along Ontario provincial highway 401. ...

External links

• Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada Home Page
• FEBInternational - "the overseas arm of The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada"

Sources

• FEBCC Yearbook
• Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
• Four Centuries of Baptist Witness, by H. Leon McBeth