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Six Reasons to Come to the Church Planting Conference

The arched eyebrow of an 8 year old girl who has just recently mastered the art can be a bone chilling sight. The eyebrow went along with the “Planting churches Mummy ?” that greeted me as I had tidied up some advertising cards for the Vital Church Planting Conference that I had left on [...]

Skateboards meet spirituality

Perth, ON
story by Laura Mueller, copyright Perth Courier
Where signs warding off skateboarders once hung, a new movement to blend skating culture with Christianity is taking root.
Tonight, Christian rock music will blare from the speakers as kids take advantage of the only place in town they can skateboard indoors. When their boards hit the ramps, they [...]

Stucco Jesus: a Review of Henry Poole is Here

One of my favorite songs of recent memory is Tom Waits’ Chocolate Jesus because it so well captures and subverts our Western culture’s obsession with do-it-yourself “spirituality” (a nefarious term which, by the way, now only functions as a short form for “anything goes”).  With his distinctive voice, once described as sounding “like it was [...]

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• Mission Shaped Intro comes to Toronto!
• New Video Profile of Church on Tap
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• Vision Day – April 10, 2010 – Waterloo ON
• Vision Day – April 17, 2010 – Orangeville ON
• Messy Fiestas come to the Diocese of Niagara!
• Vital Church Planting Conference West – May 18-20, Edmonton, AB

• FXCA january update by Nick Brotherwood
• Six Reasons to Come to the Church Planting Conference by Jenny Andison
• Skateboards meet spirituality by Nick Brotherwood
• Fresh Expressions training begins to take root in Canada by John Bowen
• FXCA december update by Nick Brotherwood

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If the hospitality of Jesus is appropriated into the very heartbeat of our congregations, the natural outpouring of this will then flow outside of ourselves into our lives in the world. It becomes natural and normal for us to be Kingdom hosts, inviting others to come and see, to come and share in the way of Jesus and the Kingdom. We are able to extend this hospitality to others because we are confident about what it is that we are inviting them into.