History
The Fellowship was started by Ronald Grant and Alan Neil, who had both served as missionaries with the South Seas Evangelical Mission in the Solomon Islands. Profoundly influenced by participation in a revival in the Solomon Islands, they started house meetings in their homes in the late 1930s. Members of the group were dissatisfied with aspects of the churches they attended (mostly Presbyterian or Anglican) and were described as " persecuted by the evangelical world of the time"
Alan Neil died in the late 1960s, and Ronald Grant led the group until his death in 1995. During the following year, members left their current churches and joined one of three Presbyterian churches: Clayton, Mount Evelyn and Trinity Presbyterian Church, Camberwell, reportedly at the direction of the Fellowship. In 2002, members of the Fellowship were removed from membership of the Mount Evelyn church.
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