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Episode #19 – Arch Wong – Flourishing Congregations – Canadian church research flourishes

Arch Wong helps direct the Flourishing Congregations Institute at Ambrose University (Flourishingcongregations.org). He relates how the Canadian research he is involved in will help small and large churches across Canada.

Episode #18 – Glenn Wooden – Small church leader and Old Testament Professor

Glenn Wooden teaches at Acadia Divinity School in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He also helps lead a small church and thinks deeply about the Bible’s emphasis on small.

Episode #17 – Wendy McCready – The Pastor’s Wife

Wendy McCready works with Flowers for the Pastor’s Wife – a helpful digital platform for encouraging the small church pastor’s wife.

Episode #16 – Ron Klassen – Create a small theology

Ron Klassen is the director of the Rural Church Missionary Association. His experience over decades has brought an understanding of small churches this is invaluable. Ron talks of approaches small churches need to take, and of the theology small church leaders need to develop

This is Us! Episode #15 – Margaret Clarke – Clergy Resilience

Clergy resilience is about the ability to bounce back from adversity. Margaret Clarke has just completed her Ph.D. focusing on a research study conducted this past year on clergy resilience. The themes for the study revolved around workload, expectations, and isolation. The primary idea in clergy resilience focused on balancing the dynamic tension of clergy …

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This is Us! Episode #14 – Robin Haensel – Networking Small Churches

“I grew up in a small town that had, I think, five elevators when I was a kid. In fact, I remember them building a big new elevator when I was probably five or six years old. I came to faith in Christ in my early 20s. And then I hit it off to Bible …

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This is Us! Episode #13 – Brian Thompson – Small Church in an Urban Centre

Brian Thompson pastors a small church in Burnaby, British Columbia. He serves a multicultural church with a strong sense of mission and vision.

This is Us! Episode #12 – Wes Mills – Denominational responses to small churches: ACOP

Wes Mills leads that Apostolic Churches Of Pentecost denomination in Canada. Many of the churches are under 250, with a large portion of those churches under 100. Wes shares from his own experience, gathering advice that is well worth noting.

This is Us! Episode #11 – Paul Kowtechy – Called to be a small church pastor

Paul Kowtechy worked for years as a retail manager. Then, in a direction only God could have imagined, he was called to be a small church pastor.

This is Us! Episode #10 – Daniel Graham

Daniel Graham is pastor of the Free Methodist Church in Peterborough, Ontario. He previously served in Prince Albert Saskatchewan and is part of the executive of the Free Methodist Church in Canada. His ministry in small churches spans three decades. He speaks to COVID, small church advantages and regional differences in ministry in small churches.