Who We Are

Who We Are

Benton Street Baptist Church is a fundamental, evangelical congregation of believers. We preach Jesus Christ crucified, risen, living, and coming again! We are united with about 500 other like-minded churches across the nation through the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. We share a set of core beliefs yet retain an independent and autonomous style of church government.

Our vision is to be a thriving congregation in downtown Kitchener that is home to a diverse and growing family of believers united in Jesus Christ, a place where anyone can begin their Christian experience, belong to a caring family of fellow believers, and become a mature ministering disciple of Christ.

• Staff

  Pastoral Team Gary McNitt[[sitetree_link id=33]] Bob Parks[[sitetree_link id=34]] David Barker[[sitetree_link id=35]] Jaye Rice[[sitetree_link id=37]] Doug Thomson[[sitetree_link id=56]]

• Doctrine

  What We Believe

• Covenant

  Having been led by the Holy Spirit to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and on profession of our faith, being baptized in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now, in the presence of God and this assembly, most solemnly and joyfully covenant with one another as one body in Christ.

• History

  Benton Street Baptist Church is located in the heart of historic Kitchener, Ontario. It was founded as the first German Baptist church in Canada in September, 1851 when an organizational meeting for the formation of a local German Baptist Church was held in the Free Church at Bridgeport. The charter members included three from New York City and thirteen others. Prior to the second meeting of this new church, fifteen more were baptized. Soon other preaching centres were established in Shingletown, near New Hamburg, and in Woolwich (Elmira). In 1852 the Bridgeport congregation built a church in Berlin (now Kitchener) on the present location of Benton Street Baptist Church.

• About Us

  Benton Street Baptist Church is a fundamental, evangelical congregation of believers. We preach Jesus Christ crucified, risen, living, and coming again! We are united with about 500 other like-minded churches across the nation through the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. We share a set of core beliefs yet retain an independent and autonomous style of church government.