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The Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, formerly the Baptist Union of Western Canada, is a moderate Baptist Christian association of churches in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, [1] Manitoba, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta. The union is one of four components of Canadian Baptist Ministries.
At the British Columbia Regular Baptist Convention in 1955, several resolutions were directed against the Emmanuel Church (now called Kingcrest Southern Baptist Church) and the Southern Baptists. This caused Kingcrest and four other churches to withdraw from the B. C. Convention and affiliate with only the Southern Baptists in the northwest.
In 1927 he made the decision to terminate the church's affiliation with the Baptist Union of Western Canada due to theological differences with the teachings given at the union college. [16] In 1927, he founded the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute in a new building. [17] The institute building also housed the Westbourne Baptist Church.
[1] [2]: 40 The first official record of a Baptist church in Canada was that of the Horton Baptist Church (now Wolfville) in Wolfville, Nova Scotia on October 29, 1778. [2]: 62 The church was established with the assistance of the New Light evangelist Henry Alline. Many of Alline's followers, after his death, would convert and strengthen the ...
Worship service at Chauveau Evangelical Church in Quebec City. In 1928, the Union of Regular Baptist Churches of Ontario and Quebec (led by Thomas Todhunter Shields) broke away from the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, while the Fellowship of Independent Baptist Churches was formed in 1933. These two merged in 1953 to form the FEBCC.
Worshipers pray against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Salem Free Will Baptist Church on Sunday, October 6, 2024 in Old Fort, N.C. Congregants pray at the First Baptist Church in ...
[1] This church planted 4 other churches. The latter founded the Central Canada Baptist Conference in 1905 and became a member of the Baptist General Conference of the United States. [2] Though organized into regional conferences, these churches were also affiliated with the Baptist Union of Western Canada (BUWC) for the first half of the 20th ...
Calgary Alberta Temple, a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dedicated October 28, 2012 [2] [3] [4] Cathedral Church of the Redeemer, the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Calgary; Centre Street Church, a member church of the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada (EMCC) and largest megachurch in Canada