Dr. Malcolm Beckett

Director of Atlantic Baptist Mission

Transition Team (oversight of Atlantic Baptist Mission Board, Board of Ministerial Standards, Lay Pastor Training Program)

506-635-1922 ext. 106

Malcolm was born on May 27, 1954 in Saint John, New Brunswick and grew up in the small rural community of Oak Point, New Brunswick where he attended the Oak Point United Baptist Church. He came to a personal knowledge of the Lord in October 1970 and was baptized in June of 1971.

Malcolm graduated from Saint John High School in 1972 and attended Atlantic Baptist College in Moncton for the next two years. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Thomas University in Fredericton (1976) he entered the Master of Divinity program at Acadia Divinity College, Wolfville, graduating in 1979. In 1986 he began pursuit of a Doctor of Ministry degree at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, achieving that goal in 1993. The focus of studies for his D.Min. was in the area of church renewal and church growth.

While studying at St. Thomas University Malcolm and his wife attended the Douglas United Baptist Church, Douglas, NB, where Malcolm assisted Rev. Elwood Bannister with youth ministry. Upon moving to Wolfville, he served as Assistant Pastor and then full-time Associate Pastor to Dr. John Bartol in the Windsor United Baptist Church. In 1980 he was ordained into the Christian ministry in that church. From 1981 to 1988 he served as Pastor to the Barss Corner and Parkdale Maplewood United Baptist Churches in Lunenburg County, NS. While there he was called into denominational ministry (1988) and served as the Director of Evangelism for the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. Since March of 2000 he also served as Interim Part-Time Director of Home Missions and Church Planting for the Convention and in 2001 became the Director of Atlantic Baptist Mission in the newly named Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches.

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