Partner With Us
Help us bring the Bible to life for people across Canada.
Find out more about how you can partner with us.
Partner Application
Partnerships allow the Canadian Bible Society (CBS) to help people engage with the Word of God. Please fill out the application for your ministry, organization, or church to be considered as a potential partner in our work in Canada.
Please note that all submissions will be reviewed and followed up by a CBS representative as soon as possible.
Find a Team Near Me
Are you keen to connect with the CBS in your area? Find our representatives in your region and contact them directly.
About Partnerships with CBS
- We emphasize partnerships in our priority areas. We are interested in continuing conversations that align with our priorities: Indigenous Peoples, Aging population, Next Generation, New Immigrants, Urban Ministry and Chaplaincy.
- This is a formal but flexible process. The partnering organization signs a short-term (sometimes renewable or extendable) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
- CBS has several Bible resources that can be made available to our partners (for example, Word of Welcome Bibles, Camp Bibles, Special Edition Partnership NTs, Gospels). We may also consider the need and capacity for creating new resources to best respond to the needs of a potential partner and their beneficiaries.
- Partners are encouraged to report back every three months with feedback/stories about the impact of the Scriptures.
Stories from the Field
Healing Through Language Reclamation
Over 1.6 million people in Canada are from Indigenous groups, 63% of whom self-identify as Christians. Mourning the loss of their language and wanting to preserve it for their children, a team of women, some over the age of 80, began translating the Old Testament into Inupiaq. They are now supported by CBS translation specialists but at the outset they had no external guidance. In the backdrop of the beautiful Alaskan landscape, listen to them share their story of Inupiaq Scripture translation.
Steadfast through the storm
Worldwide Bible distribution topped 32.6 million in 2021, showing the extraordinary commitment of Bible Societies to provide the hope of God’s Word amid a global pandemic.
2022 Impact Report | Loud and Clear in Long-Term Care Homes
In 2020, CBS launched a pilot program to support individuals in long-term care homes, in the form of audio Scriptures and music delivered through specialized easy-to-use audio devices and selected large-print Scriptural resources.
2022 Impact Report | Unwrapping the Gift of God’s Word
CBS offers new resources to help people engage with God's Word.
2022 Impact Report | Rescuing and Empowering Girls
CBS partners challenge some of the darkest evils in the world, reaching out to rescue and empower teenage girls from spiritual and physical bondage.
2022 Impact Report | Breaking Down Physical Barriers
In 2021, thousands for whom God might have seemed silent, were helped through your gifts. Although COVID slowed progress, day by day more people who are visually or hearing-impaired gain access to the tools they need to encounter God’s Word.
2022 Impact Report | Punjabi Project Creates Early Impact
For CBS, publishing in the languages of the heart of Indigenous communities and the diaspora church is a high priority. One’s own language is the way God speaks most clearly and powerfully.
2022 Impact Report | 90 Translation Projects in 2021
Despite a second year of COVID disruption, in 2021, Bible Societies across the world completed Scripture translations in 90 languages used by 794 million people—just over 10% of the world’s population.
2022 Impact Report | Reclaiming Language, Renewing Hearts
Mourning the loss of their language and wanting to preserve it for their children, a team of women, some over the age of 80, began translating the Bible. They are now supported by CBS specialists but at the outset they had no guidance.
2022 Impact Report | Bible-Based Trauma Healing Gains Momentum
The Bible-based curriculum for groups includes basic mental health concepts. The group sessions and personal work help participants to identify their pain, share their suffering, bring their pain to the cross of Christ for healing, and, for cases where the trauma was caused by the actions of another person, learn to forgive their oppressors.