Answering the Seeking Heart
The history of the Canadian Bible Society is anchored in the call to help all people hear God speak
More than a century ago,
English immigrants, Gaelic-speaking highlanders, Moravian missionaries, travelling salesmen, relentless volunteers and outward-looking churches fuelled the establishment of what became the Canadian Bible Society.
Today through the Canadian Bible Society (CBS), God’s voice is being made clear to people in thousands of communities across the country and in multiple languages.
We serve young and old, those in prisons and in the military, people in Indigenous communities and the most recent immigrants.
We direct people to God’s Word, from those struggling to make ends meet or find a place in society, to those in the highest reaches of power.
Our impact is intensely personal and felt around the world through projects we support and our membership in United Bible Societies.
Donor Powered Service
Everything we do or have ever done is made possible by donors – individuals, families, churches, ministry partners, foundations – people who want others to hear God speak in the language closest to their hearts.
Explore Stories from the Field
Where faith is under siege
CBS partners with the Bible Societies of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan to address the spiritual needs of refugees, supplying volunteers with Scriptures and Bible-based Trauma Healing training.
Embracing doubts
Julia was gifted with a Bible through the through Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO), a university student movement dedicated to evangelization.
“The burden in my heart and soul has gone”
CBS partners with the Bible Societies of Syria, Austria, Lebanon and Jordan to address the spiritual needs of refugees, supplying volunteers with Scriptures and Bible-based Trauma Healing training.
“If you give me 500 Bibles, I can give you 500 souls back”
Zhou, a local preacher in China, drives home the urgency of getting Bibles to people while the door is open.
Committed to Truth, Committed to Reconciliation
On September 30, 2021, as we observe the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, CBS remembers and honours all the Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and never returned home. We also remember all the children and their families who survived the residential school system.
Trauma Healing
When people hear God speak, wounded hearts are healed, and disrupted lives are restored
Generations under siege
A tragic number of young people feel crushed by powerful social and economic forces, leaving them hopeless and in despair. What, they ask, is the basis for hope? And who will help?
Volunteers step up for mental health support of members of Canadian Forces
The efforts and commitments of volunteers are vital to the ministry of helping people hear God speak through Scripture.
Gunfire in the Dark
“I feel like someone is speaking from deep inside my heart when I read the Bible in my language."
Impact for Generations
Madam Niu’s father preached the gospel in China for over fifty years, from age 18, until the Cultural Revolution in 1966 saw him publicly punished, humiliated, and tortured.