Stories
Hear the stories of women ordained by Atlantic Baptist churches!
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Andrea Anderson
Andrea Anderson was ordained in 2019. She has served as Deputy Minister over the Public Service Commission in Nova…
Angela Wade
Angela Wade was ordained in 2017 and now serves as lead pastor at Union Street Atlantic Baptist Church. She…
Anna Robbins
Anna Robbins was ordained in 1995. She was involved with local church ministry, served as faculty at the London…
Ardythe Ashe
Ardythe was ordained in 1988 and went on to pastor numerous Baptist churches in Nova Scotia. She shares about…
Audrey Carter
Audrey Carter was ordained in 2001 alongside her husband Jack. Some of the churches they pastored together were in…
Barbara Cochran
Barbara was ordained in 1991 and has been pastoring at West Brooklyn Baptist Church for around thirty years. Barbara…
Barbara Fuller
Barbara was ordained in 1995. She shares about the experience of tragically losing her husband Gerry and how she…
Barbara Putnam
Barbara Putnam was ordained in 1996 and soon after began a career in military chaplaincy. In 2016 she became…
Carol Ann McGibbon
Carol Ann McGibbon was ordained in 1984 at Germain Street Baptist Church in Saint John, NB. She pioneered urban…
Carol Anne Janzen
Carol Anne was ordained in 1997 and has served at several churches, including First Baptist Dartmouth. She shares about…
Carol Dimock
Carol Dimock was ordained in 2008. She shares her experience serving in prison ministry and talks about the transformation…
Carol Smith
Carol was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in 1995. She shares her experience being called to prison ministry and…
Carolyn Steeves
Carolyn was ordained in 2014. She is currently the senior pastor at The Crossing Church, Newfoundland. She talks about…
Christine MacDormand
Christine was ordained in 1984. She describes her ministry over forty years, including planting a church in Pugwash, Nova…
Deb Stevens
Deb Stevens was ordained in 2010 at Windsor Baptist Church. She talks about receiving her call into ministry during…
Debbie Simmonds
Debbie Simmonds was ordained in 2021 at East Preston United Baptist Church in Nova Scotia, where she’s served in…
Diane Juckes
Diane Juckes was ordained in 2003. She has pastored at Lower Derby Baptist Church, and served as a chaplain…
Elizabeth Legassie
Elizabeth was ordained in 1976 and went on to pastor, counsel, and teach. She shares about her years of…
Elizabeth Waugh-Olmstead
Elizabeth was ordained in 1989 at Grace Memorial Baptist Church in Fredericton. She shares her recollection of the 1987…
Erica Corbin
Erica Corbin was ordained with the CBAC in 2023 at Faith Baptist Church in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. She…
Freda MacDonald
Freda was ordained in 1999. She served at several churches, including North and South Alton and Black Rock Baptist…
Gail Whalen-Dunn
Gail was ordained in 1998. She describes some of the challenges she faced over her years of ministry, like…
Hannah Bartlett
Hannah Bartlett was ordained in 2021 and serves as the Next Gen pastor at Cornerstone Baptist on Prince Edward…
Heather Donovan
Heather was ordained in 2002 and became a chaplain with the Canadian Armed Forces. She talks about the unique…
Heather McGregor
Heather was ordained in 1994 and went on to serve as a hospital and nursing home chaplain. She describes…
Ida Armstrong-Whitehouse
Ida was ordained in 1976 and went on to pastor several churches, as well as serve in chaplaincy. She…
Janet Kwantes Baker
Janet was ordained in 2014. She has served in several churches including Bridgewater Baptist and Greenfield United Baptist Church.…
Jennifer McWilliams
Jennifer was ordained in 2012 at The Journey Church in Moncton. She is now the lead pastor at The…
Jennifer Riley
Jennifer was ordained in 2006. She is now Senior Pastor at Hantsport Baptist Church. She talks about the different…
Jennifer Sutton
Jennifer Sutton was ordained in 2016 and has pastored congregations including at Forest Hills and Aenon Baptist Churches. She…
Jennifer Varner
Jennifer Varner was ordained by the CBAC in 2004 but now pastors a charismatic ministry called Wellspring Christian Community…
Joan Nickerson
Joan was ordained in 1998. She served as a chaplain at Nova Institution for Women for eleven years. She…
Joyce Hancock
Joyce was ordained in 1987. She served as director of Christian Education at First Baptist Dartmouth as well as…
Joyce Ross
Rev. Dr. Joyce Ross was ordained in 2014 at the age of 75. She describes her lifetime experience in…
Judith Tod
Judith was ordained in 1989 and went on to pastor at Kentville Baptist Church, work with refugee families, and…
June Keddy
Rev. June Keddy passed away in February of 2024. In this interview, June spoke about her childhood experiences with…
Kathy Neily
Kathy was ordained in 1986 and went on to serve at Bedford Baptist Church and First Baptist Charlottetown. Kathy…
Kayla Colford
Kayla was ordained in 2018 and now serves as a military chaplain. She talks about serving in chaplaincy as…
Kim Butler
Kim Butler was ordained in 2023. She has served for many years at Atlantic Community Church but has recently…
Kimberly Beers
Kimberly was ordained in 2001 at Cambridge Baptist Church. She has worked at the Moncton Crisis Pregnancy Center, in…
Kristen Price
Kristen was ordained in 2016 and has served as youth and children’s pastors in several Atlantic Baptist churches. She…
LeQuita Porter
LeQuita Porter is a trained lawyer who pastored at East Preston United Baptist Church from 2010 through 2019. She…
Linda DeMone
Linda was ordained in 2017 and now pastors at Uniacke Baptist Church. She describes how leaving an abusive marriage…
Linda Perrin
Linda Perrin was ordained in her sixties, after a long career as a school principal. She talks about resisting…
Liz Johnson
Liz Johnson was ordained at 60 years old. She served as a chaplain with assisted living and in her…
Lois McLean
Lois McLean was ordained in 2007 and has served several local churches in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She…
Lola Mather-Dyer
Lola was ordained in 1991 and went on to serve as a pastor and chaplain in Atlantic Canada and…
Louise Hannem
Louise Hannem was ordained in 2012. She served in pastoral ministry at several churches before moving into full-time roles…
Margo MacDougall
Margo MacDougall was ordained in 1997. She has worked in several positions, including as a counsellor, a probation officer,…
Marilyn McCormick
Marilyn was ordained in 1996 at Grand Bay Baptist Church. She has served in numerous churches and ministries, including…
Marion Aretha Borden-Davis
Marion was granted a license to preach in 1987 and graduated from Acadia Divinity College in 1992. She went…
Marion Jamer
Marion Jamer was ordained in 2011 and has served as both a pastor and as a community chaplain working…
Marlene Pitman-Knowles
Marlene Pitman-Knowles was ordained in 1998 and has served at several Maritime churches, including Bayers Road Baptist Church, Windsor…
Marlene Quinn
Marlene was ordained in 2007. She has worked with the Salvation Army, and at churches in Bedford and Parrsboro,…
Maxine Ashley
Maxine graduated with her MDiv in 1970 and was later ordained in 1989. She has worked at three theological…
Maxine Gough
Maxine Gough was ordained in 2005 and continues ministering today in her eighties. She describes growing up in a…
Melody Maxwell
Melody was ordained in 2020 and serves at Acadia Divinity College as Associate Professor of Christian History. She talks…
Michele Bland
Michele was ordained in 1992. Since 1996, she has been living in Hong Kong, where she is currently Senior…
Miriam Uhrstrom
Miriam was ordained in 1985 and went on to serve as a pastor both individually and alongside her husband…
Nancy Draper
Nancy was ordained in 2002. She served at Grace Memorial and First Baptist Dartmouth as a Christian educator. Nancy…
Nancy Murphy
Nancy Murphy was ordained in 2005 and has served as children’s pastor at Brunswick Street Baptist Church and Oromocto…
Pam Schut
Pam Schut is Pastor of Children’s and Family Ministries at First Baptist Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. In this…
Pamela Estey
Pamela Estey was ordained in 2005 in Canning, Nova Scotia. She is now the intentional interim pastor for St.…
Patty Beals
Patty Beals was ordained in 2012. For ten years, she pastored the rural Lawrencetown Baptist Church, a church that…
Rachel Kwan
Rachel was ordained in 2020 and is now pastoring at Fundy Seaside Baptist Church in New Brunswick. She shares…
Renée MacVicar
Renée was ordained in 2009. She has pastored at North and South Alton, RiverCross, and Hillside Baptist churches. Many…
Rhonda Britton
Rhonda Britton was ordained in 2002 in the United States. After moving to Nova Scotia, she pastored at Second…
Robin McCoombs
Robin was ordained in 1999 and went on to pastor at Wilmot and Middleton Baptist churches. She talks about…
Ruth Tonn
Ruth Tonn was ordained in 2019 following a twenty-year career as a semi-truck driver. She most recently served as…
Sandy Sutherland
Sandy was ordained in 2005. She went on to pastor at several churches, including The Crossing Church in St…
Sara Palmater
Sara was ordained in 1986. She recalls being present at the 1987 convention assembly when the group voted on…
Sarah Clapham
Sarah was ordained in 2010. She has served at South End Baptist Church and at St. Luke’s Protestant Chapel,…
Sarah Cogswell
Sarah Cogswell was ordained in 2024 and serves as the Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Care at The Journey…
Sarah Scott
Sarah was ordained in 2005. She went on to pastor at Bridgewater Baptist and serve in chaplaincy. Sarah shares…
Sarah Stevens
Sarah Stevens was ordained in 2014 and has pastored at Bethany Memorial and Harmony Baptist Church. Sarah talks about…
Sarah Trenholm
Sarah Trenholm was ordained in 2018. She has pastored at Midland Baptist and now serves alongside her husband at…
Sharon Budd
Sharon was ordained in 1987 and in 2013 she retired from her long-term ministry at Melvern Square United Baptist…
Sharon MacKenzie
Sharon MacKenzie has been serving as worship director and now worship pastor since 2006 at Charlottetown First Baptist Church…
Sheila Cummings
Sheila Cummings was ordained in 2024, after many decades of ministry service. She currently serves as Lay Pastor at…
Sherrolyn Riley
Sherrolyn Riley was ordained in 2003 and has pastored at Victoria Road and Mahone Bay United Baptist Churches. She…
Shirley DeMerchant
Shirley was ordained in 1998. She has served at Hosanna Presbyterian Church in South Korea, and has been senior…
Sylvia Hagerman
Sylvia Hagerman was ordained in 2008 and has served in spiritual formation ministries and ministry to women. She talks…
Tammy Giffen
Tammy Giffen was ordained in 2020. She is the church planter and lead pastor of Groundswell Church in Truro,…
Thelma MacDonald
Thelma was ordained in 2006 and went on to pastor at Bethany Memorial Baptist and Truro Immanuel Baptist. She…
Virginia DeAdder
Virginia DeAdder was ordained in 2007 at Hantsport Baptist Church in Nova Scotia. After retiring from a long career…