the free methodist church in canada
It is our hope and prayer that congregations across Canada will grow in love for their neighbours by practicing radical hospitality in the name of Jesus. Through empathy, education and equipping the IET is here to help you fulfill God’s call to missions here at home.
Welcoming Newcomers
The FMCIC is proud to partner with Welcome Church (a project of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada). Through their free online training and in-person events across the country, Welcome Church equips congregations to extend the hospitality of Jesus Christ to our international neighbours who are already here!
Canada receives over 250,000 new immigrants and refugees each year. In the past, new immigrants settled in major cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, but today they are scattered across small towns and rural communities. In fact, according to the 2016 census, immigration in the prairies and Atlantic Canada has more than doubled in the last fifteen years.
For over twenty years the FMCiC has been practicing radical hospitality by being a Sponsorship Agreement Holder (or SAH). Each and every year, a handful of Free Methodist congregations sponsor refugees and welcome newcomers, thanks to the oversight of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (or IRCC). We encourage you to learn more about the good work of the IRCC.
We also invite you and your congregation to support this work by partnering with our sponsoring congregations. We want to share their stories of lives changed and transformed in Jesus’ name, and we want to see more Free Methodists across Canada celebrate and further these efforts.
The IET and Administrative Services are here to facilitate this process, so if you’d like to learn more please contact us.
We’re also incredibly proud of, and grateful for, the work of the Asylum Seekers Initiatives Group out of West Springs Free Methodist Church in Calgary.
