Template:Use British English Template:Infobox hospital CBM-Serango Christian Hospital located in Serango,[1] Gajapati District, Odisha, India was the outcome of missions of Canadian Baptist Mission who set foot in 1876[1] with arrival of The Reverend William F. Armstrong[1] and subsequently established a mission station on the hills in Serango. It is a participating hospital of Council of Christian Hospitals,[2] an autonomous body founded to take forward medical missions of Canadian Baptist Ministries.
Memberships
CBM Serango Christian Hospital is a member of,
- Council of Christian Hospitals,[2] Pithapuram, Andhra Pradesh,
- Christian Medical Association of India, New Delhi[3] Hospital also networks with Christian Medical College, Vellore[4]
Clergy Retreats
Serango being a serene location, Canadian Baptist Ministries, founder of the Hospital, holds periodical Clergy retreats[1] for its Priests hailing from Utkal Baptist Churches Association,[1][5] Soura Baptist Christian Mandali Sammilani,[1][6] Kui Baptist Association[1][7] and Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars. Old Testament Scholar and past India Church Relations Coordinator[8] of Canadian Baptist Ministries, The Rev. G. Babu Rao,[1] CBCNC together with The Rev. Ron Harris,[1] CBM used to lead Clergy retreats for nearly two decades during the period 1995[9]-2012.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Kenneth Knight, Shirley Knight, The Seed Holds the Tree: A Story of India and the Kingdom of God, 2009. [1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedETASI - ↑ The Christian Medical Association of India, Member Institutes in Andhra Pradesh. Internet, accessed 5 October 2008. Archived copy.
- ↑ Christian Medical College, Vellore, Networking
- ↑ Utkal Baptist Mandali Sammiloni
- ↑ Soura Baptist Association. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ↑ Kui Baptist Association
- ↑ G. Babu Rao, Wisdom tradition and Indian Parallels with special reference to Telugu literature in Reflections on Theology Today, ACTC, Secunderabad, 1990.[2]
- ↑ Directory of Churches, Alphabetic by City, Church, Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec, 1995, p.D-15.[3]
Further reading
- The Medical Ministry of the Canadian Baptist Mission (Convention of Baptist Churches of Northern Circars) 1890–1950. A thesis submitted to the History Department of the Ramapatnam Baptist Theological College in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity of the Senate of Serampore College (University), Serampore({Template:Date).
- Telugu Trophies: The Jubilee story cf some of the principal Telugu converts in the Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission in India from 1874 to 1924.
- An Insight into the History of the Canadian Baptist Mission in Andhra Pradesh (1874–1924). Unpublished M.Phil. (History) Thesis, Madras Christian College, Madras({Template:Year).
- 'Canadian Baptists at work in India'{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(2008). ISBN 978-1-4086-7832-9
- Forty years among the Telugus : a history of the mission of the Baptists of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, to the Telegus, South India 1867–1907({Template:Year).