About us
We at Emmanuel believe that love and respect should govern the way we interact with one another.
No matter where you come from, who you are, or how you identify yourself, there is a place for you here at Emmanuel.
Emmanuel Baptist Church believes that love and respect should govern the way we interact with one another. Though we may have diverse perspectives on faith, theology, and biblical interpretation, we are drawn together by a love for Jesus, care for one another, a passion for our community, and a desire to invite others to share in this with us. No matter who a person is, where a person comes from, or how a person identifies themselves, there is a place for them within the community life of Emmanuel. We welcome into membership and leadership all who have made a commitment to follow Jesus, without regard to their race, ethnic background, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, income, education, ability, and other factors that give rise to division and marginalization.
We are currently in conversation about our future, our vision, and our core identity statements, working to define who we want to be as a church.
Our first step has been to create and formally adopt (as of April 19th, 2023) the following statement around inclusion:
Our Vision
God-dependent, Jesus-Rooted, Spirit-Led.
Our Mission
To fully love God and all people.
Our Values
We value love.
We are committed to loving others, seeking their well-being with compassion and mercy.
We value community.
We are committed to being a community where all are welcomed, known and loved.
We value outreach.
We are committed to engaging the community beyond ourselves through actions and words that communicate the love of God as revealed in Jesus Christ.
We value prayer.
We are committed to cultivating a life of prayer through which we pay attention to the Holy Spirit, pursue Christ’s kingdom, and submit to Christ's lordship.
We value scripture.
We are committed to living under the authority of Scripture, allowing it to form our imagination, inform our identity, transform our living, and to communicating its truth and relevance in our current context.
We value generosity.
We are committed to being a generous community, giving freely and cheerfully of our attention, abilities, resources, time, and spiritual gifts.
We value justice.
We are committed to extending Christ’s reign by paying attention to issues of injustice, advocating for the poor and powerless and working toward healing and reconciliation in our community and the world.
We value creativity.
We are committed to affirming the role of the imagination and the arts in our community, and to exploring and expressing the life of the Holy Spirit in new and fresh ways.
We value diversity.
We are committed to honouring the uniqueness of one another in mutual respect, love and hope for human wholeness.
Our affiliations
Our denominational affiliation is with the Canadian Association for Baptist Freedoms (CABF), which seeks to be a safe and welcoming environment in which Baptists can share all concerns and points of view without fear of being marginalised. The CABF is a Canada-wide association composed of both individuals and churches. To learn more about CABF, please click here.
We gratefully acknowledge that we are beneficiaries of Treaty 6 and that we gather on the traditional homeland of diverse Indigenous Peoples (the Cree, Dakota, Nakota, Saulteaux) and the Métis Nation. We are committed to honouring and reconciling relationships with one another.