John Burden College of Health Sciences (JBC) is a non-profit post-secondary institution that exists to train students in the healing and medical arts according to the principles and philosophy of the Seventh-day Adventist faith tradition.
JBC has a special focus on raising up a new generation of highly skilled missionary clinicians to serve the Seventh-day Adventist church as medical missionaries.
Mission
Continue the healing ministry of Jesus Christ by training clinicians to further the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada and around the world.
Vision
Our vision is to see the world reached with the Three Angels’ Messages through the Adventist health message.
ASPIRATION
To become a leader in equipping mission-minded Adventists who are dedicated to continuing the healing ministry of Jesus Christ and furthering the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The canadian adventist healthcare Crisis
Adventist health ministry in Canada faces four very significant and inter-related challenges:
Unlike the United States, Seventh-day Adventism in Canada lacks distinctly Adventist healthcare systems composed of clinics, hospitals, sanitariums (lifestyle centers) etc. Thus, many Canadian Adventist healthcare providers find themselves within secular workplaces where medical ministry is significantly impeded.
Many Adventist young people train in the United States but often do not return to Canada.
Adventist young people often receive their healthcare training at secular schools and thus graduate ill-equipped in the art and practice of medical evangelism.
Many Adventist clinicians need more training to effectively apply natural and lifestyle medicine, which are the primary modalities that Seventh-day Adventists are called to utilize.
The Paradise Group is working towards solving these issues.
The Paradise Group is currently building Adventist missionary health institutions in Canada such as clinics, lifestyle immersion programs, and permanent lifestyle centers, whose primary goal is to use natural and lifestyle medicine for the purpose of evangelism.
John Burden College was started by the Paradise Group as a Canadian educational institution to train up new generations of Adventist medical missionaries to staff the Canadian Adventist healthcare systems that are currently being built. JBC has a particularly special focus on training highly skilled missionary clinicians.
supporting global missions
The Adventist church in many parts of the world has a severe lack of highly skilled clinicians to serve sacrificially as missionaries. John Burden College aims to send out missionary clinicians to serve across the world both as clinicians within existing health institutions or to start new Adventist healthcare systems in countries where these are lacking.
John Burden College is part of the Paradise Network
a group of Adventist-run businesses and non-profits that aims to accelerate urban missions across Canada by creating an integrated missional food and health system in Canada.
An organic regenerative farm that is on a mission to produce the world’s most nutrient-dense food.
Lifestyle medicine clinic that aims to continue the healing ministry of Jesus using evidence-based lifestyle and natural therapeutics.
A future lifestyle medicine and horticulture therapy retreat centre in Hamilton, Canada.