Resources

Many churches print the weekly Prayer Link in their bulletins, include it in church emails, or mention it during worship services.

Download the Prayer Link for 2025

• Request for Letter of Transfer
• Letter of Transfer

• Licensing Tool Kit
• License to Minister Certificate
  • Transfer: DOC or Fillable PDF
• License for Lay Ministry Certificate
• Covenant of Christian Workers

Each year, CBAC churches are asked to submit reports that help our office understand how to serve our member churches better. Contact information is used to update the contact information in the online Find A Church tool and church directory. Statistics are published online in the Yearbook. You can complete your Church Life Report here.

Likewise, Association reports can be found here: Fillable PDF or DOC

The journey towards incorporation has a number of benefits, but it can be costly and difficult to navigate. The CBAC has sought the knowledge and expertise of our lawyers to help draft a template to make the process easier.

The laws regarding incorporation vary from province to province. Below you’ll find packages of guidelines for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

Downloads

When you click on the link below, choose “save” instead of “open”. Alternatively, right-click on the file and choose “Save Link As…” The files are compressed in ZIP format for easier downloading. After you download them, you will need to extract the files to a new folder, then you will be able to open the files individually.

• New Brunswick Incorporation
• Nova Scotia Incorporation
• Prince Edward Island Incorporation
• Newfoundland and Labrador Incorporation

Creating Safe Environments in Our Churches

The Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada are committed to helping our churches provide safe and welcoming spaces for children, youth, vulnerable adults, and all who gather in our ministries. Abuse prevention is not only a legal and insurance matter—it is a gospel matter. By putting clear policies and practices in place, we protect the most vulnerable among us, support leaders and volunteers, and strengthen our witness in the community.

Why Every Church Needs a Policy

• Prevention: Reduce opportunities for abuse, neglect, or harm.
• Protection: Safeguard children, youth, and vulnerable adults.
• Reporting: Ensure clarity on when and how to report concerns or incidents.
• Training: Equip leaders and volunteers to serve with integrity and accountability.
• Insurance: Demonstrate to insurers and the wider community that your church takes safety seriously.
• Social media & Online Practices: Protect staff, volunteers, and participants by setting clear boundaries for digital communication, online photos and videos, and appropriate use of church platforms.

Questions Church Leaders Should Ask

• Do we currently have a written abuse prevention and response policy?
• Has it been reviewed or updated in the last year?
• Are our staff and volunteers carefully screened, trained, and aware of expectations?
• Do our facilities allow for safe supervision (classrooms, washrooms, meeting spaces, outdoor activities)?
• Do we have guidelines for digital communication, social media, and online ministry practices?
• Are there clear procedures for off-site events, transportation, or overnight activities?
• Do we have a clear plan of how to we respond if an allegation of abuse is made?
• Does our insurance coverage align with our policies and practices?

Next Steps for Churches

1. Develop or Update Your Policy – Adapt a sample policy for your church’s ministries. Review it annually.
2. Form a Safety & Protection Team – Assign leaders to implement and monitor safe church practices.
3. Screen and Train Leaders – Use background checks, references, interviews, and annual training.
4. Communicate Clearly – Ensure parents, congregants, and community groups know your church’s safety commitment.
5. Address Social Media & Online Practices – Include clear expectations around posting photos, livestreaming, texting, and direct messaging with minors or vulnerable adults.
6. Review Insurance Coverage – Confirm with your provider that your church has adequate protection.

Support Available

We know this can feel overwhelming, but you are not alone.

• CBAC Support: Contact Rev. Dan Pyke, Director of Youth & Family Ministries, for guidance and connection to resources.
• Insurance Support: About 90% of our churches are insured through Gallagher’s Baptist Church Insurance Program, which offers sample policies, training resources, and support. If your church is with another provider, contact them directly to confirm your coverage and access resources.

Together, we can ensure that our churches are safe places where trust is nurtured and the gospel is lived out with integrity.

For more information about any of this, please contact Kevin Vincent.

New congregations have energy, passion and momentum that drive them forward! Studies reveal that new congregations reach new people far more effectively than existing congregations. So whatever options are on your list to reach and serve your neighborhood, consider starting something NEW and multiplying your congregation.

We have identified three main tracks:

New Church Plants

Is there a neighbourhood in your area, region, or city where you need to consider planting a brand new congregation? Is there a neighbourhood where you can multiply and add an additional site/congregation? For example, could you become one church in two or more locations?

Two models:

1. Traditional church planter starting something brand-new, most times with a sponsoring congregation.
2. Multi-site model. A church identifies a new neighbourhood that needs a healthy church and initiates a new site, with a site pastor to lead that congregation.

Re-Plants of Existing Congregations

Are you a church with a wonderful history but is stuck and needs a complete relaunch? Are you in a strategic location but the congregation has dwindled? Would your church consider kneeling in a posture of humility, placing EVERYTHING on the table with a “whatever it takes” attitude, and re-planting the congregation in the same way that those who originally planted it did?

Two models:

1. Independent Re-Plants: Much like a new church plant, these churches are existing congregations that choose to re-launch with new vision.
2. Missional Mergers: Two or more churches that recognize that in this new day, they can be better together and choose to merge into a new congregation.

New Kinds of Churches

Is there a creative expression of “doing and being church” that you have been considering? A creative environment to reach out to millennials? An inner-city food bank or clothing depot that has developed a sense of community and has become, in fact, a “congregation”? New Canadians that have settled into your neighbourhood and are longing for community? A café for artists and artisans with a sense of Christian community? We are only limited by our imaginations! Creative and imaginative experiments in communities all over Atlantic Canada must become our habit! Some will gain traction. Some won’t. But we’ll learn from them all.

A New Kind of Church is a creative, expression of “church” (dinner church, café church, house church, etc …). Most times it is “tethered” to an existing congregation. Interested in considering launching a “New Kind of Church”?

LINKS

Please consult with an accountant and/or a lawyer for the province and situation-specific information for issues related to setting up CRA numbers or closing a church.

1. Canadian Centre for Christian Charities
2. Canada Revenue Agency
3. CBAC - Starting a Church Overview (PDF)
4. CBAC - Closing a Church Overview (PDF)

Some of the resources/workshops that our CBAC Team are able to offer include:

• Assessing Your Church’s Health
• Transitioning Your Church to Increasing Health
• Understanding Your Core Values
• Developing Your Church’s Strategic Vision and Objectives (making use of Discovery and/or Natural Church Development)
• Resources on Evangelism: Alpha, Lifeworks, Becoming a Contagious Christian
• Taking Aim at Leadership: Lay Leadership in the Local Church
• Seminars for Deacons, Trustees and other Church Leaders
• Ministry of Mediation or Arbitration: Help When the Church is in Conflict
• Developing the Art of Gracious Disagreement
• Help for the Church Looking for a Pastor – Pastoral Transition Process
• Holistic Biblical Stewardship
• Growing Financially Healthy Congregations

Looking for help with your audio and video equipment?

• Art Hiebert, Clarity Sound Solutions – Ph: 902-668-2020 ; Email: [email protected]
• Peter MacLean – Ph: 1-800-263-7639 Ext. 316 ; Email: [email protected]
• Stewart Naylor, Canon Canada – Email: [email protected]

Discounts

• Canon cameras and other equipment to enhance your streaming and recording potential
• Epson projectors – special pricing for churches

Common Expressions is a new version, released in 2021, of the former Baptist Minister’s Manual (also known as “A Manual for Worship and Service”).

This e-book is available in digital format for $10. Click here to order your download

Save with $0 enrollment & 30% off all membership types. View the program flyer for details.

Contact Cheryl Ann Beals for a registration number to enroll.

Eligibility

• CBAC pastors (any pastor currently serving credentialed with the CBAC or not, all credentialed pastors serving, in between churches or retired)
• Paid church staff (secretary, janitor, etc)
• Spouse of the pastor or staff

For more details on how to enrol, contact plan administrator, Andrew Myers.

Contacts

• For eligibility and other questions: Andrew Myers, CBAC (506-635-1922 x105; [email protected])
• For renewals and hardware upgrade: Nadine Barnett, Audacity Wireless (506-851-9502)

If upgrading hardware, don’t forget hardware code listed in the PDF proposal that will be sent to you by Andrew Myers.

RightNow Media is offering CBAC Pastors free personal access to their service. Download the flyer for more info and how your church can access a discounted subscription.