Atlantic Baptist Stories Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies

Heather McGregor was ordained in 1994 and went on to serve as a hospital and nursing home chaplain. In this interview, she describes the particularly challenging experience she had going before the examining council on her road to ordination, and the contributions she made towards improving that experience for future ordination candidates.

Called to Serve is a new podcast featuring the stories of women ordained by churches within the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada.  Between 1950 and 2020, over one hundred women were ordained to ministry in Atlantic Baptist churches and around the world. Our project shares and preserves these women's experiences--the joys and challenges they  faced, and the impact they've made through their ministries.

Called to Serve is funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and is led by Rev. Dr. Melody Maxwell of Acadia Divinity College. Learn more at calledtoserve@acadiau.ca.

Rev. Dr. Anna Robbins is President of Acadia Divinity College, Dean of Theology at Acadia University, and Director of the Andrew D. MacRae Centre for Christian Faith and Culture. 

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Twila Grosse is a member of Cherry Brook United Baptist Church and a past treasurer for the African United Baptist Association.

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John Keith is a former CEO of Canadian Baptist Ministries who served for forty years on five continents as a Baptist missionary.

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Shirley Soleil-Day is a member and church historian at Wolfville Baptist Church in Wolfville, NS. She shares about some of the challenges she faced as a woman sensing a call to ministry, and the ways she's been able to serve those outside the church as well as inside.

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Gordon Delaney is a retired minister who served several Baptist churches, including First Baptist Moncton and First Baptist Truro. He shares about his journey into ministry as a pastor and a university chaplain, and compares his experiences in both Baptist and United churches.

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