John R. Boyd (1909-1994) is the 17th subject in A Noble Company, Volume 12, The Canadians

The difficult pioneering work of church planting is a key legacy of J. R. Boyd, and it began at Berean Baptist Church. Boyd understood how deeply important the doctrinal foundation on the Word of God was. He summed up his convictions on the matter in these words: "The Church is to be the local pillar and ground of the truth, but this is impossible if the individual members are not grounded and rooted in the Word." --Douglas Holcomb