Montreal Chinese Baptist Church was established in August 1975 as a worship congregation at Temple Baptist Church. Before the end of 1977, the church moved to its present location. Mr. and Mrs. David Chan arrived in November 1978 as the pastoral couple. The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec purchased the building in early 1980 and with the assistance of the Quebec Baptist Convention, the building was donated to MCBC as a permanent church.
Three years later, in the spring of 1983, the first phase of the new church was opened (now the secondary church), and in the same year the Church set up a mission fund to prepare for the mission. To date, it has supported several missionaries financially: in China, South America, and North America.
The second phase was completed in the summer of 1992 and is now the main sanctuary hall. In January 1989, ten years after pastoring the community, Pastor David Chan and his wife Esther were called to Hong Kong to serve with Overseas Missionary Fellowship. Pastor Wong Chun-Keung and his wife arrived to serve the church at that time. The English Fellowship and English Worship began in 1989 and 1990 respectively, while the Mandarin Fellowship was established in 1998.
Pastor Leung Chi-Keung (then the deacon of the Church) was called by God to serve as a preacher. In February 1992 after graduating from seminary, he was hired as an assistant preacher. Three years later, he was ordained.
In the summer of 1994, the church sent their first short term mission team. Pastor Wong led a team of seven people to Venezuela for two weeks. During this mission, God inspired a sister to dedicate herself to the mission of a different culture, and was later sent to the Middle East. She was the first missionary sent out by the church. Thanks to the Lord, the church’s mission work continues to flourish, including missions to Chinese seafarers, South American short missions, local short term missions and Chinese short missions.
In the fall of 1995, the Church Planting Discernment Committee was established and a conclusion was established after two years of prayer and discussion. On September 23, 1997, the first worship service at MCBC City-West Mission began. The daughter church became self-reliant in 2000 as Montreal City-West Baptist Church.
From 2002 to 2006, Pastor David Tsang served and led the assembly. For health reasons, he returned to Vancouver in 2006 to recuperate. Pastor Chan Wai Kuen took over as the Senior Pastor of the Association in March 2009 and served until the end of December 2017.
Pastor Rici Be started pastoring the English congregation in 2010 to 2019. Rev. Be was ordained on 13th December 2015.
Pastor Karl pastored the English congregation from December 2020 to August, 2024.
MCBC started adapting the new church constitution in 2018.
Mandarin congregation started to have their own Sunday Service on May 1st 2011, Rev Xuelian Yang started serving as part-time interim pastor on 1st January 2018. Rev. Yang was recognized Ordained Ministry Leader, associated with the CBOQ on 16th May 2023.
Brief recent history of oversea short term mission trips and projects:
2010 STM with Pastor Danial Fong in Paris, France
2011 STM with Pastor Wilson Cheung in Bogota, Columbia
2012 STM with Pastor Wai-Chuen Chan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 STM with Pastor Leslie Wong in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
2014 STM with Pastor Wilson Cheung in Bogota, Columbia
2015 STM English Congregation STM to Cambodia
2015 STM with Pastor Wai-Chuen Chan in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 STM with Rev Jacob Ginter in Lima, Peru
2017 STM with Rev Jacob Ginter in Lima, Peru
2019 STM with Pastor Yingzao Zhang in Curitiba,Brazil
STM with Pastor Wai-Chuen Chan in Mogi, Brazil
2023 STM with Pastor Yingzao Zhang in Curitiba, Brazil
STM with Pastor Donglue Lee in Niteroi, Brazil
2024 STM with Pastor Jacky Fan in Mogi, Brazil
STM with Pastor Donglue Lee in Niteroi, Brazil