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FREE Workshop Audio Now Available!
Thank you for your patience. The FREE audio from all the Congress workshops are now available. Click here for details....
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Wrapping It Up
After nearly 2 years of planning, the 2011 national Church Planting Canada Congress- re:Call- is over. And what an amazing week. We would like to thank our speakers- Skye Jethani, Gary Nelson, David Fitch & Christine Pohl- for the wisdom, honesty and encouragement they provided. A huge thank you also...
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Can Anything Good Come Out Of Winnipeg? – Rachel Twigg Boyce
I live in Winnipeg but I didn’t grow up here. When I first began to tell people I was moving to Winnipeg they would say, “Winnipeg? Why would anyone want to move there? “ Maybe you think the same way. But let me let you in on a little secret....
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Workshop Leader Releases New Book
Previous Post – Belated St. Francis Day Blessings Jamie Arpin-Ricci, pastor of Little Flowers Community & workshop leader at the upcoming re:Call Congress, has just released his new book “The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis & the Cost of Community” (Likewise Books,an imprint of InterVarsity Press). Here are a...
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Why Plant Churches At All? – Russ Toews
Why should we plant churches? When the topic of church planting comes up, I often hear three objections. There are plenty of churches already. Surely we don’t need another church! There are plenty of struggling churches around. Let’s work at strengthening and renewing them before we try to plant more...
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Starbucks on Church Planting? – Scott Eastveld
Our mission: to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighbourhood at a time. (Starbucks Mission Statement) I am a church planter. I also manage a Starbucks. Full time at the store…part-time with the church. There was a time when I thought that these...
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Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
“We, like the early church, find ourselves in a fragmented and multicultural society that yearns for relationships, identity and meaning.” (From “Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition” by Christine Pohl, p. 33) Many Christians would agree with Christine Pohl’s assessment as stated in her must-read book. However, where...
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Registration Now Online
We are excited to announce that online Registration is now active! Online Registration is now available here. Individual Rate (Early Bird – up until August 31st) CDN$199.00 Individual Rate (Effective Sept 1st) CDN$249.00 Student Rate (This subsidized rate is available to students who are taking a minimum of three courses...
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Borderland Churches – Review
The following is Darryl Dash’s latest column at Christian Week reviewing one our speakers excellent books: Gary Nelson has a word for our new context: borderlands. Borderlands are the place where “Christian faith, other faiths and unfaith intersect.” According to Nelson, it’s where the Canadian church finds itself. It’s a...
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Why “Consumers to Missionaries”?
The theme of the 2011 Church Planting Congress, re:Call, is call followers of Jesus to be committed to being missionaries of His gospel, not casual consumers of religious goods and services. This is a risk for every church and every believers. Whether you are part of a traditional church or...
