Oasis Needs You

Greetings Church Family,

Some of you may not know that BSBC is a member of a collective of Baptist churches, both in Atlantic Canada and across the country. On the Atlantic Canadian front, our collective is known as Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada (CBAC).

What is OASIS?

Each year, with the exception of 2020, the CBAC holds a corporate gathering called OASIS. OASIS offers great worship, inspiring teaching, helpful workshops, and "Family Business Sessions" — which deal with various business items that impact the work we do collectively.

OASIS 2021

This year, OASIS is back in a modified, online form. I invite you to visit the OASIS website and explore the offerings this year. Offerings that allow you to attend from any location of your choice. You can attend from the comfort of your home...the beach...the camp...well, anywhere. So, this may just be the year to attend!

How to get involved

As a member church, we are allowed and should send 10 voting delegates to OASIS. To be a delegate for BSBC, you must be a member of BSBC and have been baptized by immersion. If you are willing to be a delegate for our church, please (1) contact Janet in our church office so we can keep track of those serving in this way and (2) go to their website and register online.

The registration fee for delegates, as of Thursday, July 15, is $50. You would then submit your receipt to the church office for reimbursement. Please note that it is possible to attend as a non-delegate — so attendance is open to all, only delegates (who will vote on business items) have to be members of BSBC.

This year, one business item involves large scale changes to the process for ordination. Some wonderful changes that will streamline the process.

Please take in as much of OASIS as you are able. You won't be sorry.

Every blessing,
Pastor Greg