Welcome to
Woodbine Heights Baptist Church

A place to celebrate, proclaim and reflect Christ's Love.

To live in our community and welcome its diversity.

To worship as a people set free by God's Grace.

DRAMA CLUB begins Wednesday January 31st 7 - 8:15

9 years old and up for cast. Adults welcome for crew, tech, support.

Wednesday evenings through to the production.

Preparation begins for  Spring ArtsFest May 3,4,5

Email  woodbineheights@gmail.com for details.

About Us

We are pleased that you have found Woodbine Heights Baptist Church (WHBC) on the world wide web. We continue to emerge out of three years of Covid restrictions. We are back in the building on Sunday mornings for hybrid worship. We are a mask-friendly congregation,  not required, but allowed and welcome for those attending events in person. Please join us for worship. See below for attendance invitation.   

Our congregation takes seriously the call of God through Jesus to be present with and for our community. Our facility is an active place, whether it be WHBC events or community group activities. Sparks, Embers, Beaver and Venture Scouts use the building, with the 115th Toronto Scouts using space as their logistical base. We have an ongoing partnership with L'Arche Toronto. Our inter-generational Arts emphasis sparks creative expression in the neighbourhood as well. Local Dance Companies use our flexible space to develop, rehearse and perform new works.


We struggle honestly with the questions of life: there are no easy answers. We take the scriptures seriously without reading them literally. We value God's creation and our human lives and relationships as ways of experiencing God's ongoing presence and activity in the world. Among our small gathering are people from a variety of religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We seek to be a people of inclusion and embrace, welcoming all persons who wish to be part of a community seeking and practicing faith in life.

LIVE SUNDAY MORNING CONNECTION EACH   WEEK AT 11AM in person or VIA ZOOM.

Please contact us at woodbineheights@gmail.com for link and password if you would like to attend by ZOOM, or come to the sanctuary at 1171 Woodbine Ave to attend in person.

Leaning into the Grace of God

Our place in this world, and Christ's church, depends on the grace of God through Jesus Christ. We worship and study and pray and serve, enabled and animated by God's Spirit. With humility, hope, and joy, we respond in faith by cooperating with the Spirit, loving God, and loving our neighbour. 

Creating Space for Everyone

We are privileged to be in partnership with L'Arche Toronto, located here in East York. Spread across four houses in our community, L'Arche Toronto creates space for everyone to belong.

Anti-Racism and Critical Race Theory

The CBOQ has facilitated, through its Intercultural and Racial Justice Working Group, a series of important conversations, as we journey together toward whole-hearted inclusion, respect, and justice. Cid Latty (CBOQ Congregational Development Associate) offers some important background for this work.  

St. Peter and the Jerusalem Protocol

This document was crucial in our understanding of God's grace in our shared life as human beings and as a congregation. The Scriptures tell the story of transformation in Peter's life, and invite us to that same transformation. 

Theological and/or personality conflict

Our Baptist indentiy includes some history of serious conflict, struggle, fracture and division.  An infamous past pastor and his many controversies might teach us something about the way through current disputes. Or not. 

Events

Welcome Back Weekend / September 15,16,17, including the Blanket Exercise led by The Waaban Nang Collective

kkkChristmas Carol Sing Sunday December 24th at 11am

Worship Sunday by Sunday by Sunday at 11am in person or Email woodbineheights@gmail.com for Zoom link.

Drama Club rehearsals for Spring ArtsFest production (May  3,4,5) start January 31.

**Here's a video of 'A Seussified Christmas Carol' from December 8, 9, 10.

International Dinner and Variety Show / End of February
Judy Graham's LOST and FOUND Scuplture Exhibition was held September 15-17. TAKE VIDEO TOUR HERE: https://youtu.be/z4U8nA8eu-I

Book Study coming in the new year. Title, dates and time to be announced.  

Fundraising Dinner and Annual Auction / October

Our Congregation
Grace and hospitality inform everything we do and are. We have received these gifts from God, and are invited--no--we are called to share them with the world.  WHBC heeds that call with welcome and affirmation of all persons and people, period. 
Woodbine Heights BC is part of the community. We've been in the neighbourhood since 1920, and have engaged in social justice outreach, education, food ministry, literacy training and community involvement. Our 'float' in the Canada Day Parade captured the attention of local residents and international media. Our arts focus provides dynamic opportunity for neighbours of all ages to participate in creative expression through visual and dramatic arts. 

bob paterson-watt  has been the pastor at WHBC since September 2000.  He is married to MJ, dad to Madeleine, Zoe and Genevieve, and Oompah to Charlotte. Theological and literary influence (in no particular order) comes from Fred Rogers, Mary Oliver, James Baldwin, Michael Crummey, Tanya Talaga, Richard Rohr, Shirley Erena Murray, Richard Wagamese, Karen Armstrong, Brian Andreas (Kai Skye), Octavia Butler, Marcus Borg, Joan Chittister, Wendell Berry and many other poets, authors and songwriters. 

Your Donation. Our Community. 

Thank you for visiting our website. Your donation contributes to each programme and event at WHBC. Every dollar animates hope and  joy by strengthening our community and providing a safe and welcoming place to belong. Thank you for making that possible.

Sincerely,
Your friends and neighbours at WHBC

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