President's Blog

Fellowship Church Planting in Canada from 2010 to 2025

February 09, 2026

Church planting needs to remain a priority within our movement of churches. At our Fellowship National Conference in November 2024, I challenged every Fellowship church to prayerfully consider a church-planting strategy. This is important whether your church is daughtering a new plant, or your church is supporting others in our Fellowship to plant churches.

In recent months I have been reminded of the importance of establishing churches:

  • In September 2025, I attended a FEB Central Church Planting celebration gathering where we heard of God’s blessing in the past, as well as current faith-filled plans for the future.

  • In October, our Fellowship Francophone Coordinator, Hugo Ethier, and I took a dozen folk on the “Quebec Experience”—a five-day tour of church-planting projects between Montreal and Quebec City. In the past ten years close to 100 partnerships between English Fellowship churches/donors and French Fellowship church plants (using the 7 x 7 = 1 formula) have resulted in ten new plants.

The next virtual tour takes places on March 5, 2026, from 1:00pm to 2:45pm, and the next Quebec Experience tour is scheduled for October 13-17, 2026. Contact Hugo Ethier at hethier@fellowship.ca for more information.

  • In October, Fellowship National subsidized our Fellowship Advance Network team so that the members could attend the Church Planting Canada Catalyze Conference in Alberta. Our Fellowship Regional church planting directors gathered with colleagues from across the nation to strategize as to how we might reach communities with a vibrant, gospel-centred church and engage people within their context.

  • In November, Fellowship missionaries, Phil Webb, Diego and Claudia Cardona, and I hosted a team of Fellowship church leaders and pastors in Medellín, Colombia to explore partnerships in church planting and humanitarian relief-development projects. Fellowship churches can enter into five-year partnerships to help plant Baptist churches in Colombia through short-term mission teams sent from their churches.

The next Colombia Vision Tour (CVT) is November 6-16, 2026. Email me at sjones@fellowship.ca for more information.

This past year, our Fellowship planted 11 new churches (one in the Pacific Region, one in the Prairies Region, seven in FEB Central, and two in the AEBEQ Region). Our Fellowship International missionaries helped support the planting of 13 new churches around the world this past ministry year (September 2024-August 2025).

Between 2010 and 2025 our Fellowship planted 143 new churches. The vast majority are still functioning and many are thriving. The following chart indicates the distribution by Region.

Fellowship Church Planting in Canada

Domestic Church Planting in Canada is led by our Fellowship Regions

Year

Pacific

Prairies

Central

AEBEQ

Atlantic

Total

2010

1

-

3

-

-

4

2011

3

-

2

5

-

10

2012

2

-

6

2

-

10

2013

2

-

7

-

-

9

2014

-

1

2

2

-

5

2015

2

-

9

-

2

13

2016

2

-

2

1

-

5

2017

-

1

7

-

-

8

2018

3

-

4

1

-

8

2019

-

1

6

2

-

9

2020

6

-

9

2

-

17

2021

3

-

7

-

-

10

2022

4

-

3

-

-

7

2023

6

-

1

-

1

8

2024

1

-

5

3

-

9

2025

1

1

7

2

-

11

Total

36

4

80

20

3

143

 

 

If you are interested in getting your church involved in church planting in your Region, contact:

We hope to hear from you soon about your interest in getting your church involved in a church planting project.