TBC STRATEGY
We are on mission with Jesus to turn broken people into whole people who multiply Christ-followers.
In short, we are FOR Cambridge because God is for the world. We are a church that loves God, connects with each other and serves the community.
GOD HAs done amazing things…
God has done amazing things through Temple Baptist Church these past 66 years. In yesteryear, the church’s evangelism and discipleship strategies included door to door, a bus ministry, an Academy and Sunday School program. TBC has identified, trained and sent its own home-grown missionaries as well as trained numerous interns and pastors including having its own Bible School at one time. It has added worship services and planted a church (Restoration Church in 2018). It has gone through a relocation from Preston Village to the Hespeler Village and undertaken 11 building projects including a present one to become a community centre for Christ. It is debt-free and enjoys unity along with a great desire to reach its community with the gospel that is prayer-driven, Spirit-led, Word-faithful and Christ-centered.
Our biggest wins over the past 5 years have been the hiring of dynamic Staff Members, revamping our Guiding Principles, planting our first church in our 66 year history, recreating our property to become a community centre for Christ and pivoting our ministry to be more high-tech and high touch during the pandemic. God gets all the credit and we continue to enjoy unity through these years of revitalization.
GOD HAs blessed us…
God has blessed us with a prime piece of property as the gateway to and from Hespeler Village in Cambridge. Our present building was built to house Temple Baptist Christian Academy and later on we built both a Worship Centre and more classroom space. Upon the closure of our Academy in 2014, we started praying and dreaming what God wanted us to do with these 10 acres. Our goal was to use this property to serve the needs of the community and bring God glory.
Meanwhile, we continued to give the building some face lifts to accommodate not only our own ministry programs, but the many different community groups that use our facility. With a 30-year-old building comes wear and tear, and upon inspection we knew of some expensive repairs and upgrades to the building. Instead of just making these repairs and upgrades piecemeal, we sought the Lord for an overall plan. This overall plan identified some staffing needs and governance changes that needed to occur first. In addition, God had been moving in our hearts not to expect people to “Come and See” what God was doing on our property, but that we also needed to “Go and Tell” the Good News of Jesus Christ to those unreached in our community. The result was the desire to plant a church, which happened in the fall of 2018, when we sent people to reach the people of the Southwood neighbourhood in Cambridge through Restoration Church. All the while, we were praying and researching both those in our church and in our community what we could do to serve Hespeler and beyond with our property. We specifically wanted to make more community space and reach young families. This is The Master’s Plan 4.0 - Recreating our Present Property to best serve the needs of the community for the glory of God.