Episode #21 – Tim Nielsen – Small Churches can be intercultural!
Small Churches can be intercultural! In Winnipeg, the City Church reaches out to many different cultural groups. How they function together is a sign of unity and determination
Episode #20 – Tim Beadle – Small Churches: Description, Discipling, Doing
Small churches are a highlight of Tim Beadle’s vocation. He has served in, coached others and become enamored with small churches.
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.