“Now here we are 20 years later, the differences of theology remain and in fact are exacerbated. Eight faithful churches have been removed and more may be on the way. Our church has been in tension with our region for 10 years because I questioned why our region was not complying with national bylaws. Our...
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FEB Central Communication About Excommunication of 8 Churches
“The result of the special convention was the removal of the 8 churches in question. Although this is not what anyone wanted, one positive outcome is that all those involved on both sides of the issue behaved in a Christ honoring manner.” … “In recent days several pastors have asked for confirmation of the official...
Eight Churches Removed from FEB Pacific
“Several themes emerged in the discussion on the microphones. From the “for” side, arguing for the removal of the churches, it was emphasized that the churches continued to advocate with National—proof they had not accepted the region’s decision at IMPACT 2025. It was also mentioned multiple times that the eight churches themselves viewed that egalitarian-practicing...
Haykin, On FEB Canada and Its Affirmation of Faith
“Christian denominations are created by confessions; and these confessions are liminal, they create boundaries. Hopefully, this liminality is about secondary matters and not tertiary issues. The distinction between secondary and tertiary issues is of vital importance here.1 In Romans 14, for instance, Paul deals with tertiary matters of food and holy days. In more recent...
Haykin, On the Expulsion of Eight Churches
From Dr. Michael Haykin, eminent church historian and Heritage professor: “Despite the fact that some 50-60 Fellowship Baptist churches here in the East pled with the BC churches not to move in this direction, the BC region went ahead with their expulsion. Much more could be said, but I wish to go on record that...
FEB Central Communication on Upcoming Vote to Remove 8 Churches in FEB Pacific
“From the other side of the country, we are in no position to judge the situation. No matter how much we believe that we understand, we simply were not there and we lack information. Please rest assured that leaders from both FEB Central and Fellowship National have been in conversations with Fellowship Pacific leadership. We...
Update Letter to Ontario Churches that Signed Letter to FEBPAC
It seems clear to us that the majority of Fellowship churches were unaware that FEBPAC had been granted, what we would deem to be, a kind of “leniency” on the complementarian issue. We believe this was done primarily to keep the peace and keep the BC churches in FEB National. (This evaluation has been verbally...
January FEB Gender Update Letter (Francais)
En tant que communauté d’Églises locales, nous vous écrivons au nom de l’équipe de pilotage de la motion de 1997 à la récente convention nationale 2025, car huit Églises sœurs fidèles de Fellowship Pacific (FEBP) risquent d’être immédiatement exclues du Fellowship pour avoir promu un complémentarisme de conviction. Cette situation est très préoccupante pour notre...
January FEB Gender Update Letter
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...
FEB Pac Special Meeting to Remove Eight Complementarian Churches
“The Regional Board of Fellowship Pacific, acting in accordance with Bylaw 9 of our Society’s Bylaws, at their board meeting on December 3, 2025, passed the following motion: to call a special convention on Feb 7, 2026, calling for the removal of the following 8 churches from membership in Fellowship Pacific: Bethany Baptist Church –...