Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada
Encyclopedia
L'Union d'Églises baptistes françaises au Canada or Union of French Baptist Churches in Canada is an association of Baptist
churches for French-speaking Canadians
.
Work among French-speaking Baptists goes back to 1837, thanks to Swiss missionaries Henriette Feller and Louis Roussy. The churches resulting from this movement formally organized in 1969 as l'Union d'Églises baptistes françaises au Canada, and became part of the Canadian Baptist Federation in 1970.
In 2003, the Union was made up of 29 churches, mostly in Quebec
, with an estimated 2500 members. The Union participates in the Missionary Society of Ontario & Quebec and is a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and Canadian Baptist Ministries. Offices are in Montreal, Quebec, where the Faculté de Théologie évangélique (Evangelical Theology Faculty) is also operated. Rev. Roland Grimard serves as General Secretary (Fall, 2003).
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
churches for French-speaking Canadians
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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Work among French-speaking Baptists goes back to 1837, thanks to Swiss missionaries Henriette Feller and Louis Roussy. The churches resulting from this movement formally organized in 1969 as l'Union d'Églises baptistes françaises au Canada, and became part of the Canadian Baptist Federation in 1970.
In 2003, the Union was made up of 29 churches, mostly in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, with an estimated 2500 members. The Union participates in the Missionary Society of Ontario & Quebec and is a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada and Canadian Baptist Ministries. Offices are in Montreal, Quebec, where the Faculté de Théologie évangélique (Evangelical Theology Faculty) is also operated. Rev. Roland Grimard serves as General Secretary (Fall, 2003).
External links
- Union d'Églises baptistes françaises au Canada - French language Web Site
- Union of French Baptist Churches in Canada - English language Web Site