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.
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 #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.
Signs Of Life – Seven reasons I’m for this book.
McAlpine, Bill, Joel Tiessen, Keith Walker, Arch Chee Keen Wong. Signs of Life – Catholic, Mainline, and Conservative Protestant Congregations in Canada. Tyndale Academic Press / Canadian Bible Society. 2021. I’ve often read books starting in the last chapters and then reading from the front. Although any good fiction writer decries my desecration of the …
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This is Us – Episode #2 – Dave Witt
17 years ago Dave Witt began to facilitate a movement of churches in Hamilton, Ontario. The True City Hamilton thrust has impacted the city – helping to bring an intention peace for the good of the city.
“Sadly, people aren’t used to churches being able to work together across denominational lines. So when they hear there is a network of churches that are pursuing the best for the city, across denominational lines, that gets attention. People wonder, ‘why would they do that?’.”