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UBWMU Buletin cover(.pdf)
Global Adventures annual report form(.doc)
Little Lights annual report form 2010(.doc)
Camp Director's Global Adventures Evaluation Form 10(.doc)
Our Mission Statement:
- We seek as Christian women to be led by the Holy Spirit
- To be faithful to the Scriptures
- To be dependent on prayer
- To be diligent in witness
Our Union is composed of:
- Little Lights - preschool ministry
- Global Adventures-mission education for children's ministries, ages 6-11
- World Wide Guild - mission groups for young women
- Woman's Missionary Societies - mission groups for women
The objectives of the Union are to engage the efforts of Christian women in evangelism, to assist in the support of CBM missionaries, to support other programs of the Canadian Baptist Ministries, to extend the cause of missions through prayer and any other means that seems desirable and necessary to this Union. Also to support Home Mission work in Canada in such a manner as shall seem desirable to this Union.
This organization began in 1870 when Miss Hannah Maria Norris of Canso, NS offered herself to the Maritime Baptist Foreign Mission Board as a candidate for appointment to Burma. This Board did not have the funds available for her passage and support. She engaged passage on a boat to Boston intending to apply to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Board, but before she sailed she was advised to appeal to the women of the churches. This she did on June 18, 1870. Miss Maria Norris organized a Woman's Missionary Society in her home church and soon had organized twenty-two societies in Nova Scotia and eleven in New Brunswick - the first of their kind in the world. Miss Norris sailed for Burma on September 21, 1870 with sufficient money for her passage and one year's living expenses! From these beginnings the UBWMU has attained its present status.
The official publication of the UBWMU is "Tidings", which is a 24 page magazine published ten times a year.
Affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, Women's Department, our Union is represented by the President and Executive Director on the North American Baptist Women's Union (NABWU). Through this representation we have affiliation with the Women's Department of the BWA. The North American Women's Union is one of the seven continental unions that make up the Women's Department of the BWA. The UBWMU is one of the seventeen women's unions that make up the NABWU.
We unite with Baptist Women Around the World by participating in the Baptist Women's Day of Prayer held on the first Monday in November each year.
NABWU organizes an assembly, open to all the women's Unions in North America, every five years.
Who We Are:
Atlantic Baptist Women:
> Desire to follow Jesus
Are growing in their relationship with Him through
prayer
Bible study
participation in local and global mission opportunities
learn from one another through intergenerational groups
reach out to their communities
encourage those who are involved in mission and ministry
grow in leadership abilities
discover their spiritual gifts
lead children’s ministries
read suggested books
participate in short term mission trips
join together annually for a convention experiencing; worship, learning, and fellowship
> Are part of a worldwide network
members of the Canadian Baptist Women
part of the North American Baptist Women’s Union which is
one of the 7 unions of the Baptist World Alliance women’s department
> Are involved in both local and global mission
supporters of Canadian Baptist Ministries with Global Field Staff on 5 continents supporters of more than 20 ministry programs & projects within the Atlantic Provinces
- Atlantic Baptist Mission Board
- Summer Ministries (Camps & DVBS)
- Union of French Baptist Churches
- Acadia Divinity College
- Crandall University
- Christian Action Federation of NB
- Community Chaplaincy (Moncton)
- Coverdale Centers
- Hospital Chaplaincy (Halifax)
- Hospital Chaplaincy (Saint John)
- Institute of Pastoral Training
- Metro Community Chaplaincy (Halifax)
- Newfoundland & Labrador Assoc. Project
- New Life Mission
- 7 Pregnancy Resource Centres
Atlantic Baptist Women are women who desire to follow Jesus and are growing in their relationship with Him.There are over 300 women’s groups throughout the Atlantic Provinces who meet together each month to pray, study the Bible, to learn and participate in local and global mission opportunities.Women who lead Atlantic Baptist Women’s groups are members of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches.
Atlantic Baptist Women learn from one another through intergenerational groups, reach out with helping hands to their communities, quilt, encourage those who are involved in mission and ministry,grow in leadership abilities, discover their spiritual gifts, lead children’s ministries, read books on the suggested Reading Course list, participate in short term mission trips,join together annually for a convention that includes worship, learning, and fellowship experiences.
Atlantic Baptist Women is part of a worldwide network.We join together with Baptist Women of Ontario & Quebec, Women in Focus, (part of the Union of Canadian Baptists of Western Canada) and the Baptist women from l’Union d’Eglises Baptistes Francaises au Canada.The leaders of these 4 organizations are the members of the Canadian Baptist Women’s Committee who meet together annually.Through this committee we are able to share resources and participate in projects such as; The Great Canadian Women’s Bible Study, that all Canadian Baptist women are encouraged to participate in during the month of January; our joint mission project, Eva Rose York Bible Training and Technical School, Tuni, India and we encourage women in ministry by presenting each woman who receives her Master of Divinity degree, from one of our three Baptist Seminaries, with a quilt.
Atlantic Baptist Women is one of the 17 Baptist Women’s organizations who are part of the North American Baptist Women’s Union which is one of the 7 unions that make up the Baptist World Alliance women’s department.We share together with sisters from many cultures and countries all over the world.
Atlantic Baptist Women is involved in both local and global mission.We support Canadian Baptist Ministries who has Global Field Staff on 5 continents.We also support more than 20 ministry programs and projects within the Atlantic Provinces.