About Our Church

Welcome to Downsview!

Located in North York, Ontario, Downsview Baptist is located right on Downsview Ave, nestled between the 401 and Wilson Ave. Pastor Peter Charlebois has a passion for the Gospel message and brings a challenging expositional message each Sunday. Regardless of your age, family size or Bible knowledge, Downsview is a place where all nations and all generations come together to lift high the name of Jesus Christ. 

Our Vision

 i. Public worship by assembling together for the ministry of the Word of God and the observance of the ordinances laid down in the Word.
ii. Proclamation of the Word of God for the purpose of making God’s plan of salvation to the lost and the edifying of the believers in Christ.
iii. Propagation of the Word of God, throughout the world as commanded in the Word of God to the extent, as God shall provide and lead.

Elders

Those who Shepherd & Lead our Church

"Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood." Acts 20:28

Peter Charlebois, Pastor

"But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God."
Acts 20:24

Grant Hallett

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek."
Romans 1:16

Andrey Korchagin

"But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ."
Philippians 3:7-8

Chesster Hernandez

"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose."
Romans 8:28

Deacons

Those who serve & care for our Church

"And let them also be tested first; then let them serve as deacons if they prove themselves blameless." 1 Timothy 3:10

Ronilo Sargento

"And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
Colossians 3:17

Martin Taylor

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."
Ephesians 2:8-9

Statement of Faith

The Bible

We believe the Bible to be the complete Word of God; that the sixty-six books, as originally written, comprising the old and new testaments were verbally inspired by the Holy Spirit of God and were entirely free from error; that the Bible is the final authority in all matters of faith and practice and the true basis of Christian union.

We believe in one God, Creator of all, holy, sovereign, eternal, existing in three equal persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity of Jesus Christ, in His eternal existence with the Father in preincarnate glory, in His virgin birth, sinless life, substitutionary death, bodily resurrection, triumphant ascension, editorial ministry, and personal return.

We believe in the absolute and essential deity and personality of the Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment: who regenerates, sanctifies, illuminates and comforts those who believe in Jesus Christ.

We believe that Satan exists as an evil personality, the originator of sin, the arch enemy of God and man.

We believe that man was divinely created in the image of God; that he sinned, becoming guilty before God, resulting in total depravity, thereby incurring physical and spiritual death.

We believe that salvation is by the sovereign electing grace of God; that by the appointment of the Father, Christ voluntarily suffered a vicarious, atoning, and propitiatory death; that justification is by faith alone in the all-sufficient sacrifice and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and that those whom God has effectually called shall be divinely preserved and finally perfected into the image of the Lord.

We believe in the personal, bodily and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ; in the resurrection of the just and the unjust; in the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and in the judgment and conscious, eternal punishment of the wicked.

We believe that a local church is a company of immersed believers, called out from the world, separated into the Lord Jesus, voluntarily associated for the ministry of the Word, the mutual edification of its members, the propagation of the faith and the observance of the ordinances. We believe it is a sovereign, independent body, exercising its own divinely awarded gifts, precepts and privileges under the Lordship of Christ, the Great Head of the Church. We believe that its officers are Pastors and Deacons.

We believe there are two ordinances for the church regularly observed in the New Testament:

Baptism which is the immersion of the believer in water, whereby he obeys Christ’s command and sets forth his identification with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.

The Lord’s Supper which is the memorial wherein the believer partakes of the two elements, bread and wine, which symbolize the Lord’s body and shed blood, proclaiming His death until He comes.