[Stan] Fowler [, New Testament professor and academic dean at Heritage Seminary], credits Brian Stiller, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada from 1983 to 1997, for much of Canadian evangelicals’ willingness to engage the broader society.
Stiller brought together the realms of evangelism and social concerns, Fowler said. He also expanded the fellowship’s reach by regularly expressing a variety of evangelicals’ concerns to politicians.
In 2005, the fellowship launched a nation-wide program inviting evangelical congregations to perform charitable acts within their communities.
It was a campaign that directly inspired the creation of Love K-W.
In Cambridge four years ago, Forward Baptist Church launched a program dubbed “Love Cambridge.”
The program was partly designed to “bless” the community, said Jennifer Pent, a staff member at the church.
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Evangelicals Spread the Love in Canada
[Stan] Fowler [, New Testament professor and academic dean at Heritage Seminary], credits Brian Stiller, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada from 1983 to 1997, for much of Canadian evangelicals’ willingness to engage the broader society.
Stiller brought together the realms of evangelism and social concerns, Fowler said. He also expanded the fellowship’s reach by regularly expressing a variety of evangelicals’ concerns to politicians.
In 2005, the fellowship launched a nation-wide program inviting evangelical congregations to perform charitable acts within their communities.
It was a campaign that directly inspired the creation of Love K-W.
In Cambridge four years ago, Forward Baptist Church launched a program dubbed “Love Cambridge.”
The program was partly designed to “bless” the community, said Jennifer Pent, a staff member at the church.
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