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Yorkminster Park Speaks - Footnotes

1 CBM's story in India began in 1867 at Ingersoll First Baptist, a small church not far from Toronto. The Convention of Ontario and Quebec churches was holding what we now call Assembly and during that meeting, they commissioned Rev. A.V. Timpany and his wife, Jane, for foreign missions. Working with the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, the Timpanys headed to India and were followed two years later by Dr. John McLaurin and his wife.

Meanwhile in India, a Telegu pastor, Thomas Gabriel was already working on his own to spread the Gospel, but his work had grown beyond his ability to support. So he appealed for help to the BCOQ through McLaurin and Timpany. As a result of the partnership between these men, a separate Canadian Baptist Missions group was formed for the first time in 1874.
In the years that followed, Canadian Baptists started many schools and churches among the Telegu, Oriya, Saura and Kui speaking peoples. By 1922, Canadian Baptist missionaries were serving or working in partnership with approximately five million people in a territory that spanned Kolkata and Chennai. They established seven hospitals and two seminaries, most of which still function today.

2 Paddy is rice before it has been threshed.

3 See, for example, Matthew 6:33; James 1:5

4 From a sermon by John Piper entitled "A Cause to Live For" (www.desiringgod.org)

5 "All athletes are disciplined in their training. They do it to win a prize that fades away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run with purpose in every step." I Corinthians 9:25-26a (NLT)

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