This morning’s two sessions with Francis Chan were the last of the Exponential pre-conference.  Chan is the high-profile lead pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California.  Just two days ago, however, he announced his resignation, and this topic dominated his powerful message.
Chan shared his upcoming transition as a response to Jesus’ call to deny [...]

The second speaker at Monday’s RightNow pre-conference was Matt Chandler.  Before this conference, I knew little about Matt except his recent cancer diagnosis.  Matt pastors The Village Church in Texas.
He began with a warning that much of what passes for Christianity today is actually a Moralistic Deism.  He says this has occurred because the gospel [...]

Today I am attending a pre-conference, before the main Exponential conference begins tomorrow.  This particular pre-conference is organized by RightNow, a network that aims to help people become “Traders” by trading the life of a consumer for the life of mission, not later, or necessarily somewhere geographically distant, but “right now”.
The first speaker was Mark [...]

Stay tuned!  This week, Ryan Sim will be attending the Exponential Conference, the world’s largest gathering of church planters, and liveblogging here.

tabled.ca is a site from Sarnia’ s Joe Manafo that will house creative communion ideas. to kick things off, Joe has posted a handful of experiences that were created for theStory, but as time progresses his hope is that it will become a resource that inspires creativity and a renewed appreciation for the eucharist. in [...]

On Monday nights in Toronto’s Bloor West Village, the Yellow Griffin Pub’s upstairs room hosts “God at the Pub”.  A ministry of Runnymede Community Church for seven years, “God at the Pub” is the result of the church leadership’s fervent prayer and missional impulse to lower the “barriers to entry” posed by their traditional church [...]

Church on Tap, a pub ministry from the Parish of St. James & St. Brendan in Port Colborne and led by Rob Hurkmans, was featured in October’s podcast on the Fresh Expressions UK web site here:
http://www.freshexpressions.org.uk/podcast/oct09
Church on Tap was also profiled on video by Sue and Andy Kalbfleisch, linked to on our Fresh Expressions Canada [...]

Latest PostsThe Biggest Issue Planters FacePosted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 in Church Planting, Good Idea! Articles, UncategorizedYou might be surprised to learn what this church planter — in the early days of planting a church in downtown Toronto — feels is the biggest obstacle he faces

What’s the biggest issue that a church planter faces? [...]