Date: September 26-27, 2025 Location: Immanuel Baptist Church (1100 Finch Ave, Toronto) CBOQ is thrilled to announce their 2025 Regional Learning Event this fall—Church for All Ages! What’s happening? Now more than ever, we need churches that can meaningfully engage every generation in the life of the body. Scripture reminds us that the church is one… Read More »“Church of All Ages” workshop
“Iron sharpens iron”. A familiar proverb for many. Within the context of growing in faith, how do we do this? What do we ask both ourselves and one another? As we conclude the 7 Markers series, we explore how these 7 markers can continue to propel us forward individually and as a church family. sermon:… Read More »7 Markers – Recap (August 24, 2025)
We are excited to be launching our all-ages 10:30 Sunday service starting on September 7, 2025. So what does this mean? We want everyone to attends to have a meaningful experience in hearing from God, worshipping and praying together and contributing our gifts and skills to our service. Click here to see our YouTube short… Read More »All-Ages Service Starting on September 7
We are all influenced by something: coaches help us perform better, teachers help us learn better, spouses teach us how to relate better, therapists teach us how to cope better. The virtual world is full of self-proscribed experts telling us how to invest better, look better, buy better and, quite fundamentally, BE better. sermon: The… Read More »The Way Things Are Supposed To Be (August 17, 2025)
What we say our identity is perhaps one of the core and key questions swirling around our society today. The second and closely related question is, where do we get the answer to this question: from within ourselves?, or from someone or something outside ourselves? Today’s social-media driven culture says — in a self-contradictory way… Read More »Who Are You? (August 10, 2025)
The psalmist in Psalm 78:1-8 calls us to listen, remember, and teach, so that the upcoming generation and their children might set their hope in God and not forget His works. This is more than a call to preserve tradition; it is a personal invitation to invest in the lives of those coming after us.… Read More »Investing Into the Upcoming (August 3, 2025)
The Apostle Paul (in 2 Corinthians 9:6–10) reminds us of this powerful truth: our God is a generous giver. God’s generosity is not meant to stop with us; it is meant to flow through us. When we give generously, we become part of a divine cycle where His blessings and generosity multiply. Let us open… Read More »Exponential Growth / Giving (July 27, 2025)
The gospel message is not just for those within the church family. It was always meant to be shared with those outside the walls of the building. While we may have reservations, we each have different opportunities to be the “light to the world”. sermon: To Be Seen and Heard (Matthew 5:14-16) with Rev. Alvin… Read More »To Be Seen and Heard (July 20, 2025)
The Message of Haggai: “No matter how discouraged you feel, no matter how little evidence you see of My power, no matter how off course My plan appears to be or how unlikely fulfillment of My promise seems to be, no matter how dark your night or empty your soul, build My [church]. I, the… Read More »God Almighty is Still at Work (July 13, 2025)