Our History
Located in Lindsay Ontario, Cambridge Street Baptist Church was organized on February 2, 1863 by Elder A. McIntyre of Fenelon Falls. The first Minister, Eldon A. Cameron, began work in early 1864 and the church was received into membership of the Haldimand Association of Baptist Churches.
The current church building was constructed in 1873 and in 1886 was purchased by the congregataion for about $5000. ($172,327.66 in today's currency) In 1938 the sanctuary was completely remodeled to a center aisle sanctuary and in 1944 a new pipe organ was installed in memory of the Morton family.
In 2025, the organ was refurbished through the generous giving of the Lord's people and is a part of our worship service each Lord's Day.
Our Mission
To love all people and lead them into a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Vision Statement
To grow together as a group of individuals in this Church, guided by our faith in and relationship with Jesus Christ to be used by God in the lives of our congregation, community, country and world.
Cambridge Street Baptist Church is part of a family of churches within the Trent Valley Association of Baptist Churches, affiliated with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canadian Baptist Ministries, Canadian Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec and Canadian Baptist Youth. We are a member of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada.
Our Beliefs
1. The Lordship of Jesus Christ: Jesus Christ is Lord of all and to Him must be rendered complete obedience in all things. He is Sovereign Lord of all, King of Kings, Lord of Lords. In matters temporal and spiritual, He alone is Lord and Master, and is one with the Father and the Holy Spirit. Salvation comes from God’s grace alone received through faith in Christ. From all eternity, and through no merit on our part, God calls us to live in Christ. Here is the good news of the Gospel! Jesus Christ is our Saviour. In Him we are reconciled to God. Responding through faith to God’s call to us in Christ and elected by God’s grace according to His foreknowledge we become part of the family of God.
2. The Sufficiency of the Scriptures: The appeal of Baptists is never to ancient customs, the statements of Councils or the tradition of men, but rather, to the Holy Scriptures. The Bible has been given to us by the inspiration of God to be the rule of faith and life. It is the standard of all doctrine by which we must test any word that comes to us from Church, world, or inner experience. We subject to its authoritative judgement in all we believe and do. Through the Scriptures the Church is bound only to Jesus Christ, its King and Head. He is the living Word of God to Whom the written word bears witness.
3. A Regenerate Church Membership: For Baptists, the Church of Jesus Christ is made up of only those who personally and individually confess Jesus Christ to be Saviour and Lord of their lives. The Church is universal. It is the Body of Christ. It includes people of all time who are redeemed believers in Christ. This Church is localized and made visible within churches, gathered groups of believers, called together by God’s Spirit under the Lordship of Christ.
4. Believers' Baptism: Baptism by immersion in water of the believer in Jesus Christ is a solemn and initiatory act of obedience symbolizing the experience of the believer, in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the believer's own putting off of the old nature, his or death to past self and sins, and rising of newness of life to live and serve Jesus Christ.
5. The Priesthood of Believers: The Bible affirms the value of each person as having been created in the image of God, and also declares each person morally responsible for his/her own nature and behaviour. Baptists believe that inherent in the worth of each person is also the right and competency of each individual personally to deal directly with God through Jesus Christ. In essence, each person, by faith, becomes his/her own priest before God; hence, the cherished term "priesthood of all believers". This implies that all believers share as equals in Christ's Body, the church, and in turn, have a priestly role toward each other.
6. The Autonomy of the Local Congregation: Baptists have long stressed the autonomy of the local congregation, but in its independence, the local congregation has also an interdependent relationship to other congregations of like faith and order.
7. Separation of Church and State: Church and state have separate and different functions to perform and while there may be proper areas for co-operation, neither should invade the special sphere of the other.
8. Fellowship with others: Baptists feel they must faithfully teach and earnestly promote their own basic convictions and so fulfil the particular mission to which they have been divinely called. They desire also to be friendly and to co-operate with Christians of other denominations in the work of Christ's Kingdom.
9. World Mission: Baptists believe the Great Commission contained in Matthew 28:18-20 is for them the command of Jesus Christ to carry the Gospel to all the world: "Jesus drew near and said to them, I have been given all authority in heaven and earth, go then to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age."
10. Same Sex Marriage: Christian marriage is union in Christ whereby a man and a woman become one in the sight of God. It is a commitment of two people to love and to support each other faithfully for life. God’s law forbids adultery. Marriage thrives in the soil of loyalty and blossoms under the light of kindness. Sexual union in marriage is intended to provide mutual joy and comfort as well as the means of creating new life. The Church reserves the term "marriage" for the covenant relationship between one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. Members of our leadership, staff or clergy will be allowed to arrange for, officiate at, or take part in the solemnization of a marriage only when it conforms to this definition.
Further elaboration and biblical references can be found in "This We Believe" linked below:
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