Canadian Baptist Ministries

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Canadian Baptist Ministries
ClassificationEvangelicalism
TheologyBaptist
AssociationsBaptist World Alliance
RegionCanada
HeadquartersMississauga, Ontario, Canada
Origin1944
Saint John, New Brunswick
Merger ofCanadian Baptist International Ministries and Canadian Baptist Federation
Congregations982
Members81,792
Official websitecbmin.org

Canadian Baptist Ministries (CBM) or Ministères Baptistes Canadiens is a federation of four regional Baptist denominations in Canada. The federation is a member of the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarter is in Mississauga, Ontario.

History[]

The first Baptist church in what is now Canada was founded by an American pastor in Sackville, New Brunswick in 1763.[1] More churches were founded throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Lower Canada, and Upper Canada by American pastors and itinerant preachers.

Mission Boards[]

The first Baptist born in Canada sent out as a missionary was Samuel S. Day, who was born in Upper Canada, and sent to India by the American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU) in 1835.[2] In 1866, A.V. Timpany was also appoint by the ABMU to go to India, and that prompted the creation of a Canadian auxiliary to the ABMU in 1866.[3] In 1869, the Canadian auxiliary was reorganised as the Regular Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Canada, and in 1889, the name was changed to The Board of Foreign Missions of the regular Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec.[4]

Meanwhile, Baptist Churches in the Maritime colonies had been supporting the work of Adoniram Judson in Burma since 1814. In 1845, the Churches sent out Rev. R.E. Burpee and his wife Laleah to Burma, also under the auspices of the ABMU. The Maritime Baptist Convention formed a Foreign Mission Board in 1865.[5]

In 1874, the Canadian Baptist Foreign Missionary Society was founded in Ontario.[6]

The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board (CBFMB) was founded in 1912.[7]The Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board was renamed to Canadian Baptist Overseas Missions Board (CBOMB) on May 1, 1970.[8] The Canadian Baptist Overseas Missions Board was renamed again to Canadian Baptist International Ministries (CBIM) in 1990.

National Federation[]

Efforts to form a national Baptist body date back to 1900. In 1900, delegates from across Canada met in Winnipeg and formed the National Baptist Convention of Canada. Inexplicably, it never met again. As such, no national coordinating body of Baptists existed in Canada until the Baptist Federation of Canada was organized at Saint John, New Brunswick in 1944.[9] The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, the Baptist Union of Western Canada, and the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes (now Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada) initiated the Federation and were joined by l'Union d'Églises Baptistes Françaises au Canada in 1970. It was renamed Canadian Baptist Federation (CBF).

Merger[]

In 1995, the "Canadian Baptist Federation" merged with the "Canadian Baptist International Ministries" to form the Canadian Baptist Ministries.[10]

Since September 2015, the Executive Director of CBM is Rev. Terry Smith.[11]

Statistics[]

According to a denomination census released in 2020, it claimed 982 churches and 81,792 members. [12]

Humanitarian aid[]

CBM support humanitarian projects in Canada and worldwide.[13]

It engages in international mission on behalf of Canadian Baptist churches and brokers national cooperation among the four regional denominations and Women's groups.

Structure[]

It has 4 regional unions of churches : Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada and Union d'Églises baptistes francophones du Canada.[14]

Education[]

The organization has several theological institutes affiliated and a partner university, Crandall University. [15][16]

Beliefs[]

CBM churches share orthodox beliefs in common with other Christians, including belief in one triune God, the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, and the centrality of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection for salvation, plus Baptist distinctives such as believer's baptism. The soteriology of the group could be considered mildly Calvinistic.

See also[]

References[]

Notes
  1. ^ James Harley Marsh (ed.). "Baptistes". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  2. ^ Daniel, Orville E. (1973). Moving with the times: The story of a century of mission/ 1874-1974. Toronto: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. p. 13.
  3. ^ Daniel, Orville E. (1973). Moving with the times: The story of a century of mission/ 1874-1974. Toronto: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. p. 14.
  4. ^ Daniel, Orville E. (1973). Moving with the times: The story of a century of mission/ 1874-1974. Toronto: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. p. 16.
  5. ^ Daniel, Orville E. (1973). Moving with the times: The story of a century of mission/ 1874-1974. Toronto: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. p. 17.
  6. ^ Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray, Baptists in Canada: Their History and Polity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2020, p. 42
  7. ^ Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 338
  8. ^ Daniel, Orville E. (1973). Moving with the times: The story of a century of mission/ 1874-1974. Toronto: Canadian Baptist Overseas Mission Board. p. 71.
  9. ^ William H. Brackney, Historical Dictionary of the Baptists, Scarecrow Press, USA, 2009, p. 121
  10. ^ Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 338
  11. ^ Canadian Baptist Ministries, Rev. Dr. Terry Smith Appointed CBM Executive Director Archived 2016-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, Official Website, Canada, September 23, 2015
  12. ^ Baptist World Alliance, Members, baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020
  13. ^ CBM, HOW WE WORK, cbmin.org, Canada, retrieved April 25, 2020
  14. ^ J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010, p. 496
  15. ^ Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray, Baptists in Canada: Their History and Polity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2020, p. 78
  16. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer, Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism: Revised and expanded edition, Baylor University Press, USA, 2004, p. 42

Sources[]

  • Baptists Around the World, by Albert W. Wardin, Jr.
  • Program & Report Book, Canadian Baptist Ministries
  • From Sea to Sea: The Canadian Baptist Federation 1944- 1994, by Shirley Bentall
  • The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness, by H. Leon McBeth
Further reading
  • Sunanda, G.Beaulah Pearl (1990). "An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874-1924). Unpublished M.Phil.(History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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