A ministry to all the women in your church, published by Baptist Women of Ontario and Quebec
TIMELY INSIGHTS ON TODAY'S HOT TOPICS
Each issue of The Link & Visitor magazine explores a variety of things you care about as a contemporary woman of faith. It takes you into the homes, lives, and hearts of women who are seeking to be authentic disciples of Jesus here in Canada and around the world.
It offers the encouragement, biblical insight, and information you need to cope with everyday realities.
It nourishes and refreshes your mind and spirit. It may inspire you to prayer and action. It's a stimulating visit with trusted friends.
A UNIQUE BLEND OF BIBLICAL, PERSONAL, AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON WOMEN'S LIVES
The Link & Visitor is Canada's original magazine for Christian women. It has been keeping Baptist women informed since 1878. It began as The Canadian Missionary Link, a magazine about global mission, and The Baptist Visitor, a magazine about mission in Canada. The two merged in 1927--which is how we got the name Link & Visitor.
DESIGNED TO BEAR FRUIT (1): MARCH-APRIL 2008
Dispatches from Paul and Kelly Carline, CBM global field staff in Kenya,brought us to the front lines of the turbulence that gripped Kenyans after the country's general election in December 2007. Gary Nelson, general secretary of CBM, also responded to the Kenyan crisis, and gave Canadian Baptists opportunities to respond.
Cora Berdan, one of the legendary Canadian missionaries and Moises Funes, the mayor of Algeria, El Salvador, were remembered.
Finally, authors spoke to how God bore fruit in their lives and ministries
DESIGNED TO SERVE: JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2008
How do you picture women in ministry? This Link highlights the many different ways ordained Baptist women are fulfilling their unique individual designs to serve Christ and his church.
Revisit New Orleans with a group of volunteer builders from Aylmer, Ontario
Learn how and why women around the world are agents of social change.
DESIGNED TO WAIT: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2007
Waiting is a fact of life, wherever you are. Six women share their experiences of waiting --in ministry, in infertility, in sickness and sorrow, as a single woman living at home...
Meet the Nachos and some of the August 2007 volunteers who helped build 10 houses in one of El Salvador's poorest regions.
Remember Lorna Dabbs, and take a look back with Muriel Carder on the 60th anniversary of her ordination.
REVISIT SOME "CLASSIC" STORIES: JULY/AUGUST 2007
Retiring editor Esther Barnes took you on a farewell journey through some of her most memorable stories of the past 22 years:
THE BAG LADY GOES TO CHURCH
CANCER IS A TERRORIST
PRAYER IN A CHILDREN'S CANCER WARD
WHY DO WOMEN GO INTO PROSTITUTION?
WHY DO WOMEN STAY WITH ABUSIVE MEN?
OUR FIRST WOMAN MISSIONARY DOCTOR
PLUS: Lots of colour photos from our inspirational, fun-filled Baptist Women's Weekend Away, a visit to Tuni School in India, a profile of the top Baptist woman in Bolivia, and Joan Wilton's recipe for Pavlova.
TAKE MY LIFE: MAY/JUNE 2007
This issue will be a "keeper". It's inspired by the hymn,"Take My Life and Let it Be",
TAKE MY LIFE: At 107, Martha Rogers may be Canada's oldest prayer warrior
TAKE MY LOVE: Foster mothers tell how God enables them to love one child after another
TAKE MY INTELLECT: Janet Clark gave up her scholarly pursuits to become a missionary. Then God called her to serve him in an academic setting.
TAKE MY HANDS: A photo feature celebrates the many ways Baptist women express love for God with their hands.
TAKE MY VOICE: Heather Low thought God placed her on this earth to sing for him. Then she lost her voice.
TAKE MY WILL: Walking with her dog has given Esther Barnes a fresh understanding of what it means to surrender our wills to God.
NEW LIFE IN CHRIST: MARCH/APRIL 2007
For Christians, Easter is all about new life in Christ. This issue brings you at least 8 stories of how this new life plays out in day-by-day reality:
NEW LIFE IN FRENCH CANADA: Encouraging signs of growth in French Baptist churches
NEW LIFE IN BELGIUM: Support groups are opening unprecedented doors of outreach to women
TWO BEFORE-AND-AFTER TESTIMONIES: Rena Gaile and Kate Irish tell how Christ is changing them from the inside out
NEW EVERY MORNING: From the perspective on a new grandmother and missionary, Barbara Fuller reflects on how new life in Christ isn't a one-time thing--it's a matter of continual renewal
NEW LIFE AFTER DIVORCE: How one woman let go of her cross
NEW LIFE AFTER RETIREMENT: Witty and practical advice on how to jump off the "R" cliff and land on your feet
NEW LIFE IN DARK PLACES: Jesus hasn't cured Susan's bouts of depression, but he's helped her through them
PLUS: Essential tools for your child's inner toolbox
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR MONEY: JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2007
WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE? Do you want your investments to help or harm the world? The choice is up to you. Consider becoming a socially-responsible investor.
LIVING ON $3.91 A DAY: Could you live--for just a week--on what the average Toronto family using a food bank has left after paying rent and utilities? A Toronto family finds it almost impossible.
TEACH YOUR KIDS THE 3 S's: Saving, spending, and stewardship
WHAT WOULD JESUS BUY? Six tempting reasons to buy a cashmere sweater--and a big reason not to.
PLUS: Helpful advice on how to cope with the transitions you'll face in 2007.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2006: FACING OUR FEARS
WHY CAN'T I TALK ABOUT BABY JESUS? A Toronto mom fights to put Christ back into the public school Christmas classroom
LIVING IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD: What does this mean, and why is it good for us?
SCARY STORIES: How do we handle what's happening in our world today?
EXPERIENCE Just Give Me Jesus-Toronto:
- What Anne Graham Lotz and Jill Briscoe said
- How Baptist women were involved, before and after the event
- How Jill Briscoe feels about fear and prayer
- What 15,000 Christian women saw and heard
- How to do daily Bible study using Anne Graham's Lotz's recipe
PLUS: "Fear Not": Daily Scripture readings for Advent
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006: A MISSION TO BRAZIL
Thinking of going on a short-term mission trip? Read how a team of Canadian women made a difference in Brazil, and how another volunteer's short-term experience in Brazil inspired her to make a difference back in her home town.
Also in this spectacular and timely issue:
THE BOMBING OF LEBANON: Meet the Canadian Baptists who led relief ministries to displaced people in Beirut during the attacks on Lebanon in August
HIV/AIDS: A Kenyan woman, in Toronto for the recent AIDS conference, talks about her church's cutting-edge, holistic approach to the disease
CHRISTIAN PARENTING: A Toronto mom grapples with the challenge of leading her children through a moral maze
REMOVE YOUR MASKS: Helpful advice on how to let other people see who you really are.
JULY/AUGUST 2006 LINK & VISITOR: REAL BEAUTY
THE TROUBLE WITH COMPLIMENTS: What do we women owe each other?
IS 12 THE NEW 15? How can we help preteen girls resist the cultural pressure to grow up too fast?
WHAT'S YOUR PASSION? Quilting? Gardening? Aerobics? Make it your ministry
THREE BEAUTY SECRETS from the Bible
UNEXPECTED GIFTS from your garden
MAY/JUNE 2006: WELCOME TO OUR FAMILY
THE ADVENTURE OF INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION: One mother's amazing perseverance and determination; four families who opened their hearts
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE DA VINCI CODE: True or false?
STICK WITH IT: Teach your child to persevere
HOW TO CARE for a caregiver
MARCH/APRIL 2006 LINK & VISITOR: GOD ON THE JOB
SHINING EXAMPLES of Christian women who are sharing their faith at their workplaces
LYNN SMITH pays tribute to mentors
MARK BUCHANAN tells how to tame your inner taskmasters by taking a Sabbath rest
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS in the workplace
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006: PRAYER
MEET Stormie Omartian, Susan Finlay, and Joan Ward -- outstanding Christian women who are leading others to pray for healing and for Canada's elected leaders
EXPLORE the mystery of unanswered prayer
DISCOVER new ways to pray
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005: THE WONDERS OF GOD'S LOVE
MEET Baptist women who helped clean up after Hurricane Katrina
DISCOVER the wonderful gift of camels
WORSHIP with the persecuted Church
PLUS: Scripture readings for Advent
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2005 : THE WONDER OF BAPTIST SISTERHOOD
WOMAN'S WORLD: Is it changing for better or worse?
HIGHLIGHTS of the Baptist World Congress and Women's Leadership Conference in Birmingham, England
MEET DOROTHY SELEBANO, the dynamic new South African president of the world's Baptist women
FIND OUT how one woman is SAVING THE LIVES of mothers and babies in Papua New Guinea
TEACH YOUR CHILD to make wise choices
JULY/AUGUST 2005: THE WONDER OF CREATION
LEARN how to start a community garden for children, and how to introduce your children to the fascinating world of birds.
SHARE Elaine Storkey's discovery of what the Bible teaches about gardening.
VISIT the eco-friendly farm at Tucker House.
GO ON a canoe trip with some Ottawa-area women.
JUST FOR FUN, try our gardeners' quiz.
SAY HELLO to new BWOQ president Marg Derrah and goodbye to retiring executive director Nancy Webb.
FIND OUT how Baptists are fighting poverty.
MAY/JUNE 2005: A PATCHWORK OF WONDERFUL STORIES
A Baptist woman who fled trokosi slavery in Ghana faces deportation from Canada (Read this award-winning story)
Upstairs/downstairs at The Scott Mission: Audrey Apps and the delightful daycare
How to keep your family safe on line
Joyce Man went to a chat room for advice about a stray cat, and led another stray to Jesus
Christian novelist Francine Rivers found healing after her secret abortion
MARCH/APRIL 2005: RISE UP!
MARY AND ALEX PIATOCHA: Unstoppable missionaries to Ukraine
ELAINE POUNTNEY: Radical discipleship in Moldova
MAXINE HANCOCK: The solace of Easter
SHEILA GREGOIRE: Her baby's brief life (This story won the Canadian Church Press First Prize for first-person experience.)
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2005: WOMEN WORTH WATCHING
JESSIE KEYES, a 91-year-old Bible study leader
LORNA DUECK, broadcaster and journalist
CATHERINE SWING, TVO promoter
ROXANNE MAGGIACOMO, a writer on Global's Train 48.
PLUS: Sheila Wray Gregoire's advice on how to maximize your minutes, and lots of other useful tips on how to get back into good physical and spiritual shape
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2004: TAKING CHRIST TO THE STREETS
AN UP-CLOSE, PERSONAL VIEW of young women who are sharing God's love with people who live on the streets of Toronto
ELAINE STORKEY'S PROVOCATIVE INSIGHTS on why Christians do such a poor job of taking God's Word to the streets.
PLUS: An assortment of Christmas goodies
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004: REJECTION OR REDEMPTION?
VISIT a mission field that is seldom mentioned in our homes or churches—the world of women involved in prostitution.
MEET Lauran Bethell, the Baptist missionary spearheading ministries to prostitutes, and other Christians reaching out to women on the streets of Toronto, Amsterdam, and other parts of the world.
BE CHALLENGED to join the movement against a modern-day form of slavery—the trafficking of women and girls for sexual purposes.
SEE how some Christian men took the initiative to repent of sins against women.
(This courageous issue won the 2005 Canadian Church Press A.C. Forrest Award honourable mention for excellence in religious journalism.)
JULY/AUGUST 2004: TRAVEL TO CHINA!
GARY NELSON reflects on the present and future of China's fast-growing but aging church.
MEET some of the women leaders in China's registered churches.
Then COME BACK to Canada, where you'll meet more amazing Chinese women: an evangelist, a game inventor, and a low achiever who was a big disappointment to her parents.
READ about the education of Dr. Audrey Morikawa.
FIND OUT why Marg Buchanan decided to stop trying to be nice.
MAY/JUNE 2004: LOOKING AT LOVE!
JILL BRISCOE talks with God about missing those we love
SUSAN MURPHY ponders God's love for us
SARAH PATTERSON battles the beauty beast
PAGES OF HELPFUL ADVICE for mothers, women with unbelieving spouses, wives who nag, and friends of people with Alzheimer's.
MARCH/APRIL 2004: IT'S TIME TO GROW!
MAXINE HANCOCK reflects on growing in the dark
SARAH PATTERSON wonders how women grow spiritually when our bodies let us down
HEATHER LEKX operates an organic farm for her community
KAY ROWE is remembered as a missionary who could tackle just about anything
NANCY WEBB looks at the past year and future challenges of Baptist Women
PLUS: A quiz to measure your spiritual growth
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2004:
Iraq: The other side of the story: Christine Ford found fertile land, handicapped children, and spiritual openness
Turkey: Fast and festival after the blast: A Canadian Christian in Istanbul searches his soul after bombs hit the city
Building trust with Somalis in Toronto and Kenya: How Canadian Baptists like volunteer teacher Joan Zimmerman are reaching out to the Somali people
Four ways to strengthen your marriage so it will withstand the hard times
Six secrets of looking younger: No cosmetics, diets, or surgery—just some exercises that will change you from the inside out
Overcome your fear of public speaking
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