Thanksgiving Day, 1984, the fledgling congregation of Christian Fellowship Church gathered for its first worship service in the Stellarton Fire Hall. With approxiamately 300 people in attendance, the church lifted its voices in exuberant worship and praise.
Over the next year, the Fire Hall staff made the church welcome for Sunday morning and evening services, while Tuesday night Bible study met at the New Glasgow Westminister Church.
After about a year, the New Glasgow Trinity United Church offered their Church Hall to the congregation for Sunday worship. This building remained our church home until February 1986.
In the summer of 1985 the land on Abercrombie Rd, New Glasgow was purchased and dedicated to the Lord, to be the building site of the new church.
The sod was turned in the summer of 1985 by Pastor Bruce Morrison, Associate Pastor Helen Christie, Deacon and Building Supervisor Fred Arbuckle and Elders Moody Ogden, Kevin Mattatall and Dick Steele. Missing from the photo above is Elder Dan Hill.
The building construction got underway and was completed by February, 1986. The Grand Opening and dedicatory services were scheduled for February 16, 1986.
The morning service was a celebration of worship and thanksgiving with Pastor Ted Yuke addressing the congregation in the morning message.
The afternoon service brought pastors and ministers from many Pictou County churches to celebrate with CFC the completion of the building and to bless its work in the community. Rev Murdock Marple gave the afternoon dedicatory address which was broadcast on the local CKEC radio.
The evening service continued in the air of thanksgiving as the day's offering total was announced. Special music and celebration continued. Paul Yuke, along with Pastor and Mrs. Mervyn Yuke Sr., addressed the CFC congregation.
Christian Fellowship Church, over the past twenty years, has made the community its focus, through children's ministries, youth ministry, alms and a food pantry ministry, hospital visitation and seniors home services. Local broadcast on CKEC offer the message of hope and God's love.
International mission trips have included several inner city missions in the US led by then-youth pastor Tim MacDonald.
In the 1990s, CFC partnered with a sister church in Arctic Russia to offer both support financially and ministrially from our pastoral staff and through short term missions.
The current missions programs presently involve both domestic missions here in Atlantic Canada and in urban Hamilton, as well as worldwide in Tobago and Asia. All age groups at CFC are missions-minded, right up from the 4 year olds supporting an orphanage in Tobago to providing air conditioners to an orphanage in China that experiences stifling heat. The Sunday School-aged kids pack hundreds of shoeboxes each year with the Operation Christmas Child ministry to provide vital health supplies as well as toys and fun for the world's needy children. Through World Vision, they purchased livestock for a village in a third world nation. Several college and careers-aged young adults have traveled in missions during this past year to Africa and Central America.
Dave and Laurilyn Campbell came to pastor Christian Fellowship Church in June 2003.
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The morning service was a celebration of worship and thanksgiving with Pastor Ted Yuke addressing the congregation in the morning message.
Christian Fellowship Church, over the past twenty years, has made the community its focus, through children's ministries, youth ministry, alms and a food pantry ministry, hospital visitation and seniors home services. Local broadcast on CKEC offer the message of hope and God's love.
All age groups at CFC are missions-minded, right up from the 4 year olds supporting an orphanage in Tobago to providing air conditioners to an orphanage in China that experiences stifling heat. The Sunday School-aged kids pack hundreds of shoeboxes each year with the Operation Christmas Child ministry to provide vital health supplies as well as toys and fun for the world's needy children. Through World Vision, they purchased livestock for a village in a third world nation. Several college and careers-aged young adults have traveled in missions during this past year to Africa and Central America. 