Janet AtwoodBorn in the West-Midlands of England, Janet Atwood trained as a radiographer at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. In 1960, she immigrated to Canada to work at a hospital in CornerBrook Newfoundland, where she met her husband Glen and accepted Crist as Saviour. Her journey of Faith has led her to leadership roles in congregational and Baptist denominational life across Canada. Her work with the Baptist Union of Western Canada and the Canadian Baptist Federation include organizing Missionfest Manitoba, which attracted over 600 delegates from across Western Canada, and serving as Moderator of the Manitoba Association of Baptist Churches. She was also the founding director of the Ex-Offenders Ministry in Winnipeg. She chaired the Public Affairs Committee of Canadian Baptist Ministries and represented its Task Force on Reproductive Technologies to Canada's Royal Commission on the topic. As a contributing editor to Canadian Baptist magazine, Janet has written on a range of social and religious themes. She traveled to war-torn Nicaragua as a Witness for Peace and represented Canadian Baptists at an international peace conference in Sweden. As well as having led spiritual retreats and workshops for large groups, she is also a Sunday-school teacher and small-group Bible study leader. Janet is a life-long organist and pianist. She served as board member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers Association and president of the Nova Scotia Registered Music Teachers Association. She lives in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where she continues to teach piano and music theory and serve as President of the Yarmouth Music Society. She attends Hebron Baptist Church where she is a member of the Women's Ministry Team. Read More Read Less
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