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Called to Serve
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Sharing the stories of women ordained to ministry by the Canadian Atlantic Baptist churches. Email us at [email protected] to receive updates on our upcoming book!
Episodes
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Our 100th Episode! Ft. Kristen Price, Beverley States, and Heather McGregor
The Called to Serve podcast has officially reached one hundred episodes! To celebrate, we are sharing portions of the online event we held last week. Hear our team share some of our research findings, and then enjoy a panel discussion with Kristen Price, Beverley States, and Heather McGregor…
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CTS Replay - Joyce Ross
Rev. Dr. Joyce Ross was ordained in 2014 at the age of 75. She describes her lifetime experience in prison ministry and early childhood education, vital community work for which she was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002. Email us at [email protected] for access to our online event on...
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Vivien Pealing
Vivien Pealing is a recognized lay pastor with the CBAC, accredited in 2023 while serving at Greenfield United Baptist Church. As of this August, Vivien began serving as interim pastor for Liverpool United Baptist Church. Vivien is originallyfrom England and in this interview she shares how her...
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Speaking About the Book with Amy Vetter and Katelyn Entz
Info on our upcoming tour and online event can be found at calledtoserve.ca/the-tour/ Find places to buy Called to Serve, the book at calledtoserve.ca/the-book/ Find Katelyn Entz's work on her website. Find Amy Vetter at Flourishing Congregations or read her thesis on egalitarian church culture...
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Dena Williams
Dena graduated from Acadia Divinity College in 2018 with a Bachelor of Theology. She has gone on to develop a career as an event producer, working in the creative arts and music industries. Dena speaks to the opportunities young people have to pursue unique avenues for ministry—emphasizingthat,...
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At the Canadian Baptist Historical Society (Special Episode)
Today we’ll be sharing a recent presentation that some of our team gave for the Canadian Baptist Historical Society in Toronto. Dr. Melody Maxwell and MA student Joetta Fernando shared their paper, “Answering the Call: Baptist Women in Second-Career Ministry," describing their research on the...
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Amy Golberg
Amy Golberg was ordained in 2025 at Rusagonis Baptist Church in New Brunswick. She now serves as Senior Pastorfor The Bridge Church in Fredericton. Amy shares about her journey to faith as an adult coming from a more secular background. She describes the strong support she has received along the...
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Sharon MacKenzie + Our Book Is Out!
Called to Serve, the BOOK, is now available for purchase through our website, as well as on Amazon and other stores! Find your copy at calledtoserve.ca/the-book and leave your honest review on Amazon or Goodreads! Sharon MacKenzie has been serving as worship director and now worship pastor since...
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Erica Corbin
Erica Corbin was ordained with the CBAC in 2023 at Faith Baptist Church in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. She has since moved her denominational affiliation to the Canadian Association for Baptist Freedoms. In this episode, Erica describes her ministry as a chaplain for the Canadian Armed Forces,...
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Debbie Simmonds
Debbie Simmonds was ordained in 2021 at East Preston United Baptist Church in Nova Scotia, where she’s served in many capacities for over forty years. She works as the food hub coordinator for the Preston Area Food Network and has a passion for outreach ministry. Debbie shares her powerful...
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Pam Schut
Pam Schut is Pastor of Children’s and Family Ministries at First Baptist Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island. In this episode, Pam describes the effect it had on her ministry when she gained the title of pastor. She also shares her experience of being present at the 1987 vote on whether the…
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Carol Ann McGibbon
Carol Ann McGibbon was ordained in 1984 at Germain Street Baptist Church in Saint John, NB. She pioneered urban ministry programs in both Nova Scotia and Chicago, enjoying a long career with SCUPE, the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education. In this episode, Carol Ann describes her deep...
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Maxine Gough
Maxine Gough was ordained in 2005 and continues ministering today in her eighties. She describes growing up in a segregated Black community in Nova Scotia and her experiences ministering in churches of the African United Baptist Association. She also describes the joys and challenges of attending...
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Virginia DeAdder
Virginia DeAdder was ordained in 2007 at Hantsport Baptist Church in Nova Scotia. After retiring from a long career in telecommunications, she went on to pastor several rural Baptist churches and continues to provide pulpit supply today. Virginia describes wrestling with a call to ministry…
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Behind the Scenes with Joetta Fernando (Special Episode)
Joetta Fernando is one of our research associates at Called to Serve. She joined the team in April of 2024 and has been working on data analysis, conducting interviews, and writing material for our upcoming book. Get to know her in this special behind-the-scenes conversation. Want to win a free...
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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 Scotia, and is currently senior pastor at East Preston United Baptist Church. Andrea talks about her ability to minister in the workplace, and describes experiencing racism in both...
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CTS Honours: Muriel Bent
We are re-sharing an interview in honour of Canadian Baptist missionary Muriel Bent, who recently passed away at the age of 95. Muriel served with Canadian Baptist Ministries for over 35 years, working as a missionary in the field of public health. She was a nurse, midwife, hospital…
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Jennifer Varner
Jennifer Varner was ordained by the CBAC in 2004 but now pastors a charismatic ministry called Wellspring Christian Community Outreach in New Germany, Nova Scotia. Jennifer reflects on a challenging church departure and describes what she gained from her years as a Baptist, before making the...
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Pamela Estey
Pamela Estey was ordained in 2005 in Canning, Nova Scotia. She is now the intentional interim pastor for St. Margaret’s Bay Baptist Church. Pamela describes her experience with music ministry, pastoral leadership, camp directing, and chaplaincy. She explains her current interest in addressing...
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Ruth Tonn + A Big Announcement!
Want to win a free copy of our upcoming book? Email [email protected] by March 31st 2026, with the subject line FREE BOOK. Everyone who emails in will receive notification when the book comes out and be entered into the draw. Ruth Tonn was ordained in 2019 following a twenty-year career…
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Tammy Giffen
Tammy Giffen was ordained in 2020. She is the church planter and lead pastor of Groundswell Church in Truro, Nova Scotia. Tammy talks about the challenges she has faced navigating her denomination, in which leaders hold divergent views on women in ministry. She emphasizes the importance of...
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LeQuita Porter
LeQuita Porter is a trained lawyer who pastored at EastPreston United Baptist Church from 2010 through 2019. She was the first female senior pastor in that church’s 168-year-history. LeQuita talks about her journey toordination and her experience with empowering women who have experienced abuse....
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Sheila Cummings
Sheila was ordained in 2024, after many decades of ministry service. She currently serves as Lay Pastor at Perth-Andover Baptist Church. Sheila talks about ministering in the community, where she is known as the “arena pastor”, and about the encouragement she received from numerous women who...
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Lois McLean
Lois was ordained in 2007 and has served several local churches in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She stresses the importance of prayer ministry throughout her life, as well as the role of community when there are dark times. She also describes the blessing she felt, ministering to people and...
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Sarah Cogswell
Sarah Cogswell was ordained in 2024 and serves as the Pastor of Spiritual Formation and Care at The Journey Church in Moncton, New Brunswick. She describes how she wrestled through being called to ministry as a woman and how she has learned to embrace her limitations in order to avoid burnout and...
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Joyce Ross
Rev. Dr. Joyce Ross was ordained in 2014 at the age of 75. She describes her lifetime experience in prison ministry and early childhood education, vital community work for which she was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories ofwomen…
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Patty Beals
Patty Beals was ordained in 2012. For ten years, she pastored the rural Lawrencetown Baptist Church, a church that had plateaued but under her leadership started new community ministries. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories of women ordained by churches within the Canadian...
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Diane Juckes
Diane Juckes was ordained in 2003. She has pastored at Lower Derby Baptist Church, and served as a chaplain in both hospital and correctional institutions. Diane shares stories of prison ministry in a maximum security setting, and the challenges and opportunities of navigating a multifaith…
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Called to Learn (Special Episode)
“Called to Learn" is a research paper given by Dr. Melody Maxwell that focuses on the educational experiences of Atlantic Baptist women training for ministry. Dr. Maxwell gave this presentation at the 10th International Conference on Baptist Studies. Using many of the interviews we have completed...
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Nancy Murphy
Nancy Murphy was ordained in 2005 and has served as children’s pastor at Brunswick Street Baptist Church andOromocto Baptist Church. She describes her journey as a single foster parent and how her current work in civil service is as much a ministry as pastoring.Called to Serve is a Canadian…
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Deb Stevens
Deb Stevens was ordained in 2010 at Windsor Baptist Church. She talks about receiving her call into ministry during a tumultuous time navigating a divorce. Since then, she hasserved as a pastor, a chaplain, and a social worker, and developed a passion for small church ministry. Called to Serve is…
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Muriel Bent - Special Guest Episode
Muriel Bent was interviewed in 2022 for the podcast Atlantic Baptist Stories, a previous oral history project led by Dr. Maxwell. Muriel retired from Canadian Baptist Ministries in 1998 after a long career of over thirty-five years of service. She served as a missionary and public health...
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Marlene Pitman-Knowles
Marlene Pitman-Knowles was ordained in 1998 and has served at several Maritime churches, including Bayers Road Baptist Church, Windsor Baptist Church, and Southend Baptist Church. She talks about her reluctance to embrace ordained ministry, and the things she enjoyed most about being a lead…
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Project Violet International Symposium (Special Episode)
On January 15th, Melody Maxwell delivered a paper at an international symposium for Project Violet. Project Violet is a UK initiative with a similar focus to ours. It was named for Violet Hedger, the first Baptist woman to be trained for ordination at Regent’s Park College at Oxford. Project…
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Sarah Trenholm
Sarah Trenholm was ordained in 2018. She has pastored at Midland Baptist and now served alongside her husband at Debert Baptist Church. Sarah talks about the pros and cons of serving as a clergy couple and gives her advice to any woman entering ministry. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast...
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Kim Butler
Kim Butler was ordained in 2023. She has served for many years at Atlantic Community Church but has recently accepted a call to serve as Senior Pastor at Salisbury Baptist Church. Kim talks about wrestling with her call to pastoral ministry and with how women pastors can be pigeonholed into...
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Marion Jamer
Marion Jamer was ordained in 2011 and has served as both a pastor and as a community chaplain working alongside first responders. She talks about working with the fire department and RCMP and how she sees her ministry as that of an evangelist. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the...
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Hannah Bartlett
Hannah Bartlett was ordained in 2021 and serves as the Next Gen pastor at Cornerstone Baptist on Prince Edward Island. She talks about her approach to leading a very large youth and children’s ministry and describes the impact that other women in ministry have had on her life. Called to Serve is…
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CTS Honours: June Keddy
In 2023, Dr. Maxwell was able to sit down with Rev. June Keddy, who has since passed away as of February last year. June spoke about her childhood experiences with church and with faith, and call into ministry as an adult. She served both as a pastor and as a chaplain, and we are privileged to be...
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Barbara Putnam
Barbara Putnam was ordained in 1996 and soon after began a career in military chaplaincy. In 2016 she became the first woman to attain the rank of Colonel in the Royal Canadian Chaplain Service. In 2022 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity by Acadia University. Most recently, Barbara...
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Sherrolyn Riley
Sherrolyn Riley was ordained in 2003 and has pastored at Victoria Road and Mahone Bay United Baptist Churches. She talks about entering seminary after retirement and persevering in ministry in spite of challenging environments. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories of women...
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Jennifer Sutton
Jennifer Sutton was ordained in 2016 and has pastored congregations including at Forest Hills and Aenon Baptist Churches. She talks about the challenges she’s faced serving as a divorced single parent, as well as the unique ministry opportunities she’s had through her work in the community with...
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Angela Wade
Angela Wade was ordained in 2017 and now serves as lead pastor at Union Street Atlantic Baptist Church. She talks about her experience at the ordination examining council, as well as how she’s learned the importance of balance for not burning out in ministry. This episode also features a short...
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Louise Hannem
Louise Hannem was ordained in 2012. She served in pastoral ministry at several churches before moving into full-time roles with Canadian Baptist Ministries. Louise talks about her experience taking maternity leave as a pastor, and the challenges of balancing ministry and single parenting. She…
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Carol Dimock
Carol Dimock was ordained in 2008. She shares her experience serving in prison ministry and talks about the transformation she saw in the lives of many men. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories of women ordained by churches within the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada....
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Linda Perrin
Linda Perrin was ordained in her sixties, after a long career as a school principal. She talks about resisting her call to ministry, and how she has leaned on God through sickness and finding continuing ways she can serve. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories of women...
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Liz Johnson
Liz Johnson was ordained at 60 years old. She served as a chaplain with assisted living and in her community. She talks about the importance of listening in pastoral care and her ministry emphasis on love. Called to Serve is a Canadian podcast featuring the stories of women ordained by churches...
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Faithfully Feminist? (Special Episode)
Dr. Melody Maxwell shares "Faithfully Feminist?", a paper she presented this summer at conferences in Quebec and North Carolina. This is one of several avenues of research she has been working on using Called to Serve interviews. Listen to her share this paper, which explores the complex...
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Sylvia Hagerman
Sylvia Hagerman was ordained in 2008 and has served in spiritual formation ministries and ministry to women. She talks about the challenge it was for her to navigate feeling called to ministry while being a mother, and how she has been able to treat any place like a mission field. Called to Serve...
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Sarah Stevens
Sarah Stevens was ordained in 2014 and has pastored at Bethany Memorial and Harmony Baptist Church. Sarah talks about coming to faith at the age of nineteen, the powerful youth ministry she led at Bethany, and the way that the Covid-19 pandemic affected her as a minister and a mother. Called to...
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Sharing the stories of women ordained to ministry by the Canadian Atlantic Baptist churches. Email us at [email protected] to receive updates on our upcoming book!
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