Canadian Small Church Ministry Centre
Resourcing Small Churches
Neil Bassingthwaite works with Missions for the Evangelical Free Church in Canada. He has pastored small churches in Saskatchewan and Alberta and is well aware of the need for outreach – while remembering that discipleship is the foundation of mission.
Small churches are a highlight of Tim Beadle’s vocation. He has served in, coached others and become enamored with small churches.
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.
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Bill Taylor is the Executive Director of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada. He is Canadian born and bred, has served small churches and understands the diversity of the country. “I just download my knowledge into somebody, and now they’re a disciple? And somehow Jesus did it? I don’t think that’s what he had in …
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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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?’.”