Category: Intercultural Ministries

The New Paths Indigenous Peoples Ministry Conference was held in Mississauga, ON on April 4-5, 2014. Rev. Paul Carline (CABC’s Director of Intercultural Ministries and CBM Strategic Associate) was one of the key organizers of the event. Read more about the event here on Paul’s… Read More »

The New Paths Canadian Baptist Indigenous Peoples Ministry Conference kicked off 2 weeks ago with a plenary address from Regional Chief Stan Beardy – one of Ontario’s most senior First Nations leaders. With the talk title “Resetting the Relationship” and with the Truth and Reconciliation… Read More »

Traditionalists say:  What’s the CABC coming to?!  No more Regional Ministers?  New staff and website?  And now new slogans and catchwords like “Healthy Churches. Missional Churches.” Well, that’s not too weird, but what about “Fusi3on” (I had to take a tutorial just to type it) and… Read More »

The World Acadian Congress 2014 (Congrès Mondial Acadien / CMA) is happening in Madawaska, NB August 8-24, 2014. At least 50,000 visitors are expected for this every-five-year cultural festival and homecoming. Just south of the Edmundston epicenter lies the village of Ste-Anne-de-Madawaska and the Église… Read More »

On Friday evening, February 22, 2013, Calvary Baptist Church (Spryfield, NS) held its first ever community Diversity Coffee House. To explain how we got to this point we have to go back in time a few years.  Under the capable leadership of interim pastor, Rev…. Read More »

In a Saint John living room there’s a prominently placed photo of a tall, dark and handsome, mustached man with his hands on the shoulders of a young, round-faced boy. “That’s my husband with Ali*,” explains a smiling, pleasantly plump, Pakistani woman (obviously the source… Read More »

The first problem encountered by God when He came to earth was space. There wasn’t much room for Him. Fortunately, His body and ego were small enough for a teenage womb and an animal trough. However, Christ’s crude Bethlehem accommodations were soon welcoming and making… Read More »

At Oasis 2012, the assembly approved the addition of new senior staff to the CABC. In recent weeks we have been excited to welcome on board Pastor Paul Carline and Dr. Garth Williams. Both Paul & Garth bring gifts and abilities that will help us… Read More »