“Fellowship Pacific stipulated three conditions for “joyful fellowship” with the region that were not given at the IMPACT convention by the constituency of our Region but prescribed by the board afterwards.
The board’s conditions were:
- Our churches were never to be critical of female preachers who preached to men. While we were allowed by leadership to continue to believe that such a practice was contrary to Scripture, we were forbidden from speaking openly about it.
- We were forbidden from speaking to National Council or you, our brothers and sisters among the churches of the National Fellowship, about our egalitarian practices in Fellowship Pacific or egalitarian churches within our region.
- We were also forbidden from contributing to any national conversation that might create a negative environment for Fellowship Pacific that could result in their departure from National Partnership.
If we failed to comply with these terms, Fellowship Pacific threatened to remove us.”
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“Nevertheless, the letter that Fellowship Pacific distributed on Friday claims that our region’s policy and practice are complementarian because the 2005 policy restricts the office of Senior Pastor to men. Despite their repeated claims of complementarianism, I asked the President of Fellowship Pacific from the floor of our annual convention, IMPACT 2025, “What is the functional difference between a senior pastor and an associate pastor?” He replied, prior to the vote, that there is no functional difference between senior pastors and associate pastors according to the decision that was reached in 2005. In other words, while Fellowship Pacific states that only men can be senior pastors, the actual practice of our region, affirmed by our churches at IMPACT, is that female pastors function in an identical capacity to that of senior pastors.”
Access the full letter: https://keepfebcomplementarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/October-20-Fellowship-National-Correspondence-from-Josh-Claycamp.pdf
