Canadian Baptist Ministries (CBM) or Ministères Baptistes Canadienne is an association of four regional Baptist conventions in Canada - the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, the Baptist Union of Western Canada, the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches and l'Union d'Églises Baptistes Françaises au Canada. It was formed in 1995 by the merger of Canadian Baptist International Ministries (CBIM) and the Canadian Baptist Federation (CBF).
"In 1845, the Maritime Baptists were the first Protestant body in what is now Canada to send missionaries overseas. They commissioned Richard and Leleah Burpe for Burma." In 1900, delegates from across Canada met in Winnipeg and formed the National Baptist Convention of Canada. Unexplicably, it never met again.
No national coordinating body of Baptists existed in Canada until the CBM was organized at Saint John, New Brunswick in 1944 as the Baptist Federation of Canada (BFC). The Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, the Baptist Union of Western Canada, and the United Baptist Convention of the Maritimes (now Convention of the Atlantic Baptist Churches) initiated the Federation and were joined by l'Union d'Églises Baptistes Françaises au Canada in 1970. It was renamed Canadian Baptist Federation (CBF) before merging with CBIM in 1995 to form the current CBM.
CBM churches share orthodox beliefs in common with other Christians, including belief in one triune God, the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ, and the significance of His crucifixion and resurrection for man's salvation, plus Baptist distinctives such as believer's baptism by immersion. The soteriology of the group could be considered mildly Calvinistic.
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