Canadian Baptist Ministries

Canadian Baptist Ministries
Ministères Baptistes Canadiens
AbbreviationCBM
MBC (French)
ClassificationMainline Protestantism
TheologyBaptist
AssociationsBaptist World Alliance
RegionCanada
HeadquartersMississauga, Ontario, Canada
Origin1944
Saint John, New Brunswick
Congregations971
Members81,685
Other name(s)Canadian Baptist Federation
Official websitecbmin.org

Canadian Baptist Ministries, abbreviated as CBM (French: Ministères Baptistes Canadiens, abbreviated MBC), is a mainline Protestant and Baptist denomination in Canada. It is a member of the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is located in Mississauga, Ontario.

Historical background

The first Baptist church in present-day Canada was founded by an American Baptist minister in Sackville, New Brunswick, in 1763.[1] More churches were founded throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Lower Canada, and Upper Canada by Loyalist American ministers and itinerant preachers.

Missionary activity and Canadian auxiliary

The first Canadian-born Baptist missionary was Rev. Samuel S. Day. He was sent to India in 1835 by the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions (BBFM), the foreign missionary organization of the American Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA).[2] Canadian Baptist churches in the Maritime provinces had been supporting the work of Adoniram Judson in Burma since 1814. In 1845, these churches, before establishing the Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces (MBC), sent out Rev. R.E. Burpee, along with his wife Laleah, to Burma, under the auspices of the BBFM.

In 1866, the Foreign Missions Board, renamed as American Baptist Missionary Union (ABMU) right after the Southern schism, appointed A.V. Timpany to be sent to India. That prompted the establishment of a Canadian auxiliary to the American Missionary Union by the Maritime Provinces Convention in 1866.[3][4]

In 1869, the Canadian auxiliary was reorganised as the Regular Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Canada, and in 1889 was renamed as The Board of Foreign Missions of the Regular Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec.[5]

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

Founding

Precedents

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

Efforts to form a national Baptist ecclesiastical body date back to 1900. Delegates from across Canada met in Winnipeg and established the National Baptist Convention of Canada. Inexplicably, the Convention never met again. As such, no national Baptist organization existed in Canada for a long time until 1944. In that year, the Baptist Federation of Canada (BFC) was established at Saint John, New Brunswick, by the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec (CBOQ), the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada (CBWC), and the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada (CBAC).[9] The Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, and the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada. They were joined by the Union of French Baptist Churches of Canada in 1970.[10]

In 1947, the CBOQ authorized the ordination of women ministers and Muriel Spurgeon Carder was the first ordained woman.[11] In the CBAC, Josephine Moore was the first in 1954. In the CBWC, Mae Benedict was the first in 1959.

The Baptist Federation was renamed as Canadian Baptist Federation (CBF) in 1982.[12]

In 1995, the Canadian Baptist International Ministries joined the Canadian Baptist Federation. The merger made the Federation be renamed as Canadian Baptist Ministries, its current name.[13]

Statistics

According to a census published by the association in 2023, it claimed 971 churches and 81,685 members.[14]

Humanitarian aid

CBM support humanitarian projects in Canada and worldwide.[15]

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

Regions

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.[16]

Schools

Stultz Hall, Crandall University in Moncton.

The regional conventions of the convention have participated in the founding of various universities which have gone public. There was the founding of Acadia University by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada in 1838,[17] the founding of McMaster University by the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec in 1881[18] and Brandon University by the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada in 1890.[19]

The organization has several theological institutes affiliated and a partner university, Crandall University.[20][21]

Beliefs

The Federation has a Baptist confession of faith.[22] It is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.[23]

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. 17.
  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. 14.
  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. 16.
  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. ^ Harry A. Renfree, Heritage and Horizon: The Baptist Story in Canada, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2007, p. 275
  11. ^ Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray, Baptists in Canada: Their History and Polity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2020, p. 73
  12. ^ Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray, Baptists in Canada: Their History and Polity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2020, p. 61
  13. ^ Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2010, p. 338
  14. ^ Baptist World Alliance, Members, baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved May 5, 2023
  15. ^ CBM, HOW WE WORK, cbmin.org, Canada, retrieved May 5, 2023
  16. ^ J. Gordon Melton, Martin Baumann, Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, ABC-CLIO, USA, 2010, p. 496
  17. ^ George A. Rawlyk, Canadian Baptists and Christian Higher Education, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, Canada, 1988, p. 6
  18. ^ Aaron W. Hughes, From Seminary to University: An Institutional History of the Study of Religion in Canada, University of Toronto Press, Canada, 2020, p. 33
  19. ^ William H. Brackney, Congregation and Campus: Baptists in Higher Education, Mercer University Press, USA, 2008, p. 137
  20. ^ Gordon L. Heath, Dallas Friesen, Taylor Murray, Baptists in Canada: Their History and Polity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, USA, 2020, p. 78
  21. ^ Randall Herbert Balmer, Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism: Revised and expanded edition, Baylor University Press, USA, 2004, p. 42
  22. ^ CBM, WHAT WE VALUE, cbmin.org, Canada, retrieved May 9, 2020
  23. ^ Baptist World Alliance, Members, baptistworld.org, USA, retrieved December 5, 2020

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.
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