Partnerships

For several years, CBOQ has embraced partnerships with other denominations, Christian agencies and ministries for mutual encouragement, resourcing and ministry-facilitation. We share ministry with and through Canadian Baptist Ministries, and alongside Baptist Women of Ontario & Quebec.

We have various exchanges of mutual assistance and fellowship, with our sister denominations – The Baptist Union of Western Canada, The Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches, and the Union of French Baptist Churches.

We are also proudly affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance.

CBOQ has also been partnering with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through such missioners as Marc and Kim Wyatt. Currently they are serving in Ottawa and Montreal. Prior to this, they served in the Toronto area for six years, with Matt and Michelle Norman who introduced international ministries to students on the campuses of York University, Humber College and the University ofToronto, partnering with TAABC and several of our Toronto Area churches in this initiative.

Missioner Cecelia Beck (with CBF) lived for several years, serving with Toronto Area churches in the very-diverse St. Jamestown community of Toronto (the most multi-cultural area in the most-multicultural city in the world), helping to form a new community of faith there. We anticipate a new partnership with Greg and Susan Smith, missioners serving with the Wyatts as part of a North American CBF team. They work with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia, and will partner with us especially in Hispanic ministries throughout our Convention of churches. Recent Virginia Baptist partnerships have included Dover Baptist Association, Richmond Baptist Association and North Star Church Network. US Baptists have shared in ministry in the greater Toronto area, and elsewhere in Ontario, such as at Matthew House, Fort Erie and in church-related CBOQ ministry in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our Toronto area CBOQ churches also partner with other denominations and agencies in the St. Jamestown community and in other ‘gateway communities’ like Thorncliffe Park, to start new churches and to introduce other Kingdom responses and resources to newcomers.

Thus, as they are first introduced to our nation, in some cases they are also introduced to the Gospel for the first time. Other partnerships are being pursued as we respond to an awakening world to the multi-cultural mission opportunities, challenges and responses of CBOQ churches in this great city-area. Similar thinking and planning is underway for Montreal, Windsor and other cities in which our churches serve. We partner also with the TIM Centre - the Tyndale Intercultural Ministries equipping arm of Tyndale University and Seminary. Director Robert Cousins helps prepare our overseas missionaries for service with CBM and is also working with our churches locally, helping them to wisely and sensitively welcome and/or reach out to the various people groups who live in the local contexts of our churches, with the Good News of Kingdom-come and coming. >The Baptist Convention is a member of the Canadian Council of Churches (of which we were a founding member, on 27 September 1944 at Yorkminster Baptist Church in Toronto) and of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada - working with these two national bodies primarily in areas and issues of social concern and for Christian influence and witness, immersed as we are together in national life.