"Mr. Fellowship"

The pivotal impact that Dr. Roy Lawson had on the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada in the latter half of the twentieth century cannot be overstated. Indeed, Roy was sometimes called “Mr. Fellowship”!

Converted in his late teens, Roy entered London Bible Institute in 1950 to train to be a pastor. His first pastorate was a four-point charge in Grey County, Ontario. He married Joan Barton in 1955, and they went on to have three sons.

Roy’s ministry took him to…