News & Events

I recently wrote a blog called “The Wild Places”, for God calls us to join him in the chaotic corners of our planet – our neighbourhoods. I want to do that – but I can’t. My 2017 New Year wishes (resolutions require too much resoluteness)… Read More »

We live in an age where ideas travel fast. People can quickly Google answers to every question under the sun. They are asking about faith and life, hope, pain and meaning. People are searching for answers. People in your neighbourhood. What if there was a… Read More »

2016 was a challenging year globally. It was also a year where Canadian Baptists stood up and made a difference in the lives of Syrian refugees seeking a new life for themselves and their families. In Luke 10:29, an expert in religious law asked Jesus,… Read More »

Our shared vision – “Joining God in our neighbourhoods” – makes a huge assumption – that God is in our neighbourhoods, that he’s not distant, that he’s not waiting for us to join him in heaven, that he’s here on dingy, dangerous, dusty, delightful earth!… Read More »

The 2017 Sunday Prayer Link is now available. Each year we publish this resource so churches and individuals can know how to be praying for us and supporting our shared ministry here in Atlantic Canada. It contains weekly prayer requests for the ministry of the… Read More »

The church & culture in the Atlantic Canada is under incredible change. Social/political/financial nuances continue to make the idea of engaging culture and building church a head scratcher. What is needed is a ‘missionary’ people committed to live and lead in the incarnational way of… Read More »

LINK 2016 was held at Bayside Camp, located in Sambro Head, just outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was held the weekend of October 21-23. We had a group of 35 campers and 10 staff who attended and had a great time together. This year being… Read More »

A Christmas letter from Rev. Dr. Peter Reid, CBAC Executive Minister: There is no shortage of foreboding, anxiety, fear and apprehension in our world. If we aren’t careful, we will be robbed of joy and not give ourselves permission to celebrate and rejoice in the… Read More »

Over the weekend of November 12th & 13th, a Celebration of Hope (a ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) was hosted in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL. Northern Cross Community Church and other local churches were involved in the planning and participation of this outreach… Read More »

As a follow up to previous stories we’ve shared on our website and social media about Sobeys and racial profiling (https://baptist-atlantic.ca/news/cabc-statement-on-discrimination/), we are thrilled to share that this matter is resolved. We pray for the restoration of relationships and for an end to all racial… Read More »