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Sovereign Grace Fellowship of Canada (SGF) is a fellowship for
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holding to either the Baptist Confessions of
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History

The Fellowship was founded in 1983 by William Payne, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church in
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. In 2001, the Fellowship adopted a constitution. As of 2012, there were 14 churches, including the
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in Toronto. SGF publishes a magazine called ''Barnabas''. It is one of the Baptist groups associated with the Toronto Baptist Seminary and Bible College.


See also

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Baptists in Canada According to the Canada 2021 Census, the number of people in Canada who identify themselves as Baptists is 436,940, about 1.2% of the population. The major Baptist associations are the Canadian Baptist Ministries, the Fellowship of Evangelical Ba ...
* Sovereign Grace Baptists


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External links

* Reformed Baptist denominations in North America Baptist denominations in Canada {{Christian-org-stub