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Kids Care: Just B-Cause
“Kids Care – Just B-Cause” is an opportunity to discuss with our children all the ways that God shows his goodness towards us. This five-lesson children’s resource will help you learn about CBM’s five causes...
Kids Care: U+I Can Choose
We make choices every day and these choices affect all sorts of things! It can affect us, our friends, the planet, and our relationship with God. That means we need to think about the choices...
Pass the Honey
It all started because Faye wanted to eliminate white sugar in our diet. “I want to use honey instead, but it’s pretty pricey,” she mused. “Why don’t we get a couple of hives?” I suggested...
Farming in the City
It was 2010. The farm boy in me was captivated by a new idea— SPIN Farming (Small Plot INtensive Farming) – an urban agriculture technique that takes backyards and turns them into profitable vegetable gardens,...
Everything is Connected
The basic premise of ecology is that everything is connected. The very definition of ecology embodies this truth: the word ecology comes from two parts –eco from the Greek oikos, for “household,” and logia, for...
Terry Talks – Spring 2017
The garden serves our needs. We serve the garden’s needs, and in so doing, we mutually fulfill God’s design (or economy) and show our love to God and His good gift. As an evangelical university...
The Fishermen and the Sea
As soon as they can walk they spend time at the wharf and in the boat, stretching lines, painting buoys and helping seine the weir. They grow up, immersed in fishing as the way of life of their family,...
CBM Sunday – India
Canadian Baptists have a long history of advocating for the world’s poor. Our faith challenges us to respond with compassion and to do our utmost to help others in need. On CBM Sunday, your church...
The Fisherman and the Sea
There are hundreds of small fishing communities in Atlantic Canada. I live in one of them. Deer Island is a vibrant community of about 800 souls on the New Brunswick side of the Bay of...
Grassroots Heroes
Field of Dreams This past September, eight kids and seven parents from Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga headed west to spend four days with the members of Brownfield Baptist Church in Alberta, their Canadian...
It Takes Courage
By Laurena Zondo Behind her beautiful smile, lies a painful refugee journey. This is her story. With just a small suitcase in hand, a young girl arrives all alone on Canada’s doorstep. It’s the final...
Being the Gospel
During the last two years, Europe has been shaken by a flow of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa crossing its borders and trying to find shelter from the long-lasting military conflicts and...
#WelcomeRefugees
mosaic recently asked three churches from across the country to share their refugee sponsorship experience – RiverCross Church in Saint John, New Brunswick; Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church (SCBC) in Ontario; and First Baptist Church in...
Signs of Welcome
By Paul Carline Director of Intercultural Ministries, Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada “Let’s bring 100 refugee families to Canada!” Considering that our three Anglophone Canadian Baptist regions only sponsored one or two families a year...
My People Have No Homeland
Pastor Shadrack Mutabazi meets me over dinner. Our friendship began in 2012 when I first attended a service of Shalom Christian Fellowship – a church he started in Winnipeg. Over the past four years I...
Stateless – Nowhere to Belong
Citizenship is often taken for granted as something every person receives at birth. However, millions of stateless individuals around the world possess no form of citizenship. For different reasons they were never granted official membership...
Hope for a Better Future
Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out and help. ~ Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 By Erica Kenny The war in South...
A Stranger Kind of Love
We are living in an unprecedented period of global displacement – the highest level on record, according to the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) – with over 65 million people around the world who have been...
A Stranger Kind of Love(old)
Responding to the global refugee crisis We are living in an unprecedented period of global displacement – the highest level on record, according to the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) – with over 65 million people...
Terry Talks – Winter 2017
In the midst of fear and xenophobia that has rocked Europe and North America, churches have opened their doors and hearts in unprecedented ways to receive the other and journey with them. And as they...
Its Hard Not to Stare
mosaic invited two junior reporters to interview Tim Huff, author of the Compassion Series books, which are being used in elementary schools across Canada to educate and inspire children around challenging topics. Book 1 is...
You Are Not Alone
A key element for me is remembering that we are all family together, brothers and sisters around the world, worshipping one God. We are part of a global prayer network. All things are possible...