Evangelical Christian Church in Canada (Christian Disciples)
We are the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada (Christian Disciples). As a mainstream, non-denominational Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement in North America, it traces its historic roots to the formal organization of the Christian Church in 1804 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, U.S.A. The denomination in the United States was under the leadership of Barton Warren Stone (1772-1844), a former Presbyterian minister. This group reformed their beliefs regarding Christian unity in the church during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century.
The Christian Disciples in Canada whose faith was influenced by Baptist theology, was founded in 1810, near Stratford, PEI, where a small Georgian/Colonial style church was built in 1813, by John R. Stewart, an immigrant from Perthshire, Scotland. As early as 1813, he was holding worship services in his home. The young congregation decided to establish their first meeting house – a crude log cabin which was only thirty feet long by twenty feet wide. At this time, all of the adherents were of Scots ancestry.
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