This is Us! Episode #9 – David Sawler

David Sawler pastors and directs youth centres in Cape Breton – Glace Bay. His heart is for the community. He sees the poverty, addictions and trauma during this period of COVID. How can the church become community centred and at the centre of the community?

This is Us! Episode #8 – Kevin Driver

Dr. Kevin Driver pastors a small church in the resort town on Banff, Alberta, Canada. He deals with seasonal workers, transient influx during high tourist seasons, and a intercultural mix of congregants.

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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 #3 – Karl Vaters

Karl Vaters is a small church pastor in California. He has written various books including “The Grasshopper Myth” and “Small Church Essentials”.

“My whole family comes from Canada. I was born in Newfoundland. My parents were pioneering a church in Grand Bank, Newfoundland (very small town). And then they moved to Toronto. And so I grew up in Toronto.”

“Americans typically know a lot about what’s happening inside their borders. And at times, we can be arrogant enough to go – “Who cares?” What happens out there is not America, right? But Canadians are much more European that way where they understand that the world extends beyond your borders.”

“Covid has given us some challenges that we’ve never faced before. But when I look back at it, . . . it has accelerated the pace of change, but it has not brought change.”