As a fellowship of local churches, we are writing to you as a steering team from the ‘97 motion from FNC 2025 because eight faithful sister churches in Fellowship Pacific (FEBP) are facing immediate removal from the Fellowship for advancing our Fellowship’s convictional complementarianism. This is a matter of urgent concern for our shared Fellowship family. The timeline below is important. It represents our grassroots understanding of what has taken place since FNC 2025. We also want to share some practical ways you might positively engage the Complementarian Congruence Team (CCT). This letter has been shared with FEB National Council (FEBNC).
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While the vote did not achieve the required 67% to make the statement binding, the vote demonstrated :
- That the majority of churches clearly support the theology and practice of the statement;
- That a margin of nearly 3-2 (57%:43%) indicated they want existing theological commitments to be immediately applied vs. engaging in a longer process;
- That we can postulate safely that roughly 68% of delegates outside of FEBPac voted for the Gender motion in 2025; a number that rises to an estimated 71% of delegates east of Manitoba (demonstrating an evident east-west divide). Informed by the 2025 FEBPac Impact vote, it is safe to conclude there is a supermajority in favour of convictional complementarianism;
- A longing for confessional unity on this important secondary matter; and
- An indictment of the FEBNC decision to permit regions to not be in congruence with our Bylaws and ‘97 statement over the past two decades.
Access the full letter: January FEB Gender Update Letter
