Notice
Some time ago an unscrupulous person searched our website and found records of the Nominating Committee reports from former Annual General Meetings. These contained personal information such as phone numbers and email addresses that were intended for Council use only. This information has been used to send spam messages to Council and Committee members appearing to ask for the purchase of gift cards or similar scams or requesting urgent communication.
Please do NOT RESPOND to these requests as they are NOT from CABF, its Council or Committees. If in doubt, please contact the Council or Committee Member by phone or by new email to the email address you will have for them from previous communications to confirm that the message was from them.
The former postings containing personal information have been taken down and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience that may have been caused.
The Most Recent edition of "The Bulletin" is now available.
A PDF copy of The Bulletin is available here.
Special Project to Update the CABF Governance Structure--Second Phase: November 10, 2025 Update
A two-page summary of the status of the Special Project has been prepared, including discussion of the background, mandate, First Phase, Second Phase and Third Phase.
The First Phase was completed with the passage of the Special Resolution by the Membership to adopt a new By-Law #3 and by actions taken by Council to appoint a Council Executive and update the Policy and Procedures Manual.
The Second Phase is identifying priorities for the next several months to update Committee structure, rationalizing the roles of existing committees, combining where appropriate and establishing new committee to deal with present and short-term needs.
The Third Phase will be to look at how we would like CABF to develop over time including increasing the membership of church and individual members, considering regional activities, forging alliances with other like-minded organizations and exploring topics such as the kind of events to hold, and services to members. Recommendations will be made to Council and where major policy or program issues are par of the recommendations, Council will bring recommendations to a Meeting of Members for decision.
A copy of this summary is available here.
CABF 2025 Assembly and Annual General Meeting
The CABF 2025 Assembly and Annual General Meeting were held October 3-4 at First Baptist Church Amherst, NS.
More information on the Assembly, the guest speaker Robert Seymour Wright, and links to his lectures, is available by following this link https://www.c-abf.ca/past-events/past-topics
There is also an Agenda for the Annual General Meeting with links to all reports. All of the reports were approved by the meeting. Details are available by following this link CABF EVENTS.
Draft minutes from the Annual General Meeting have been reviewed by CABF Council and approved for posting here. Final approval of the minutes will not happen until the next Meeting of Members.
CABF Meeting of Members: June 7, 2025 Adopts Ammended By-Laws
At its Meeting of Members on June 7, 2025, the members voted in favour of a Special Resolution to replace the present By-Law #2 with an updated By-Law #3.
A copy of the the Special Resolution is available here.
A copy of Appendix "A" (By-Law #3) is available here.
The Special Resolution and Appendix "A" were submitted to the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for approval, as required by the Nova Scotia Societies Act. Approved was granted on June 24, 2025.
To see more detail on the Special Project which led to the proposed amendments, please follow this link and scroll down. Canadian Association for Baptist Freedoms - Constitution and Policies.
Letters to Members and Friends of the CABF
We encourage you to share these letters with those who you feel might be interested and to post them on your Church bulletin board.
If you have not received a copy of these letters in your personal email account and would like to receive future communications as soon as they are posted, just notify us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
--CABF Executive and Council
The May 2025 Letter to Members and Friends is available here.
The January, 2025 Letter to Members and Friends is available here.
The September 2025 Letter to Members and Friends, with details of the schedule for CABF's Assembly, with guest speaker, Robert Seymour Wright and the Annual General Meeting to be held at First Baptist Church Amherst NS on October 3 and 4, 2025, is available here.
Welcome
Join CABF in welcoming our newest member church, Awaken Church, in Bowness (Calgary), AB.
Learn more about this congregation on their website: https://www.awakenchurch.ca/.
First Baptist Church, Brantford, Ontario Seeks Minister
We seek a minister who can inspire the congregation to the broader vision of growth and response to which God is calling us, while celebrating our traditions and respecting our past. She/He should be a strong team leader who will work with a Minister of Music, Board of Deacons, and the Church Council.
Brantford is a rapidly growing city of 105,000, located at the intersection of highways 403 and 24. It is within an hour of Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo and London. It has a strong industrial and service industry base and is home to satellite campuses of Laurier University and Connestoga College, both mere blocks away from our church building. Brantford has state of the art sports facilities, several museums, arts and culture centres, and has close connections with the adjacent Six Nations of the Grand and Mississaugas of the Credit territories. The church is located on the perimeter of the downtown area, in an older neighbourhood now predominantly student housing.
Visit our website http://www.firstbaptistbrantford.com/.
If you would like to find out more about our church and this opportunity, to see the full job posting, click here.