These are notes from a workshop by Nick Brotherwood & Ryan Sim at VCP 2012.

Missional Listening Workshop Slides (PDF)
Missional Listening Exercise Questions (PDF) to be answered based on a demographic segment from this handbook.

“”We need to messy-up the way we do church in order to reach young families,” say Sue Kalbfleisch and Nancy Rowe.” In a recent telephone interview with Christian Week, Fresh Expressions Canada Vision Day Coordinator Sue Kalbfleisch spoke about the meesy Church outbreak . “There are Messy Churches springing up in every province,” she adds. [...]

Bob Jackson
Church of England consultant, Ven. Bob Jackson, proposes an answer to his own question in a recent paper.
“Once upon a time we thought we knew what church was and how to measure it. Church happened when we gathered in a consecrated building for a public act of worship with a priest on a Sunday. [...]

photo Jill Homer
 
FXCA update january 2012
Happy New Year everyone!
The Fresh Expressions Canada (FXCA) Team, is a team of committed volunteers, who in addition to each following their chosen careers, also lend their significant gifts to our shared goal, “to encourage the development of fresh expressions of church alongside more traditional expressions, with the aim of [...]

“Northern Lights,” by Christer Mattson in Turku, Finland.

 
december 2012  update
Hello there!
December already. I am sitting down to write the last Fresh Expressions Canada update for 2011. There is a very light dusting of snow outside. Amazing! Where did those eleven months go? Some of you  will be reading this update for the first time especially [...]

[ February 25, 2012; 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM. ]

The first Fresh Expressions Vision Day in Saskatchewan!

The Regina Vision Day on  Saturday February  25th 2012, 9.30am-3.30pm, will take place at-

All Saints Anglican Church
142 Massey Road
Regina SK, S4S 4M9

For more details and to register click here.

[ February 2, 2012 2:00 PM to February 4, 2012 5:00 PM. ] Everything seems set for another high quality VCP conference in early February. The speaker (Dave Male from Cambridge UK) has booked his ticket, focussed and practical workshops are falling into place, and registration is up and running on the website. There is even an early bird rate of 10% off the full price if you register by the end of this month. Full details are on the VCP website here.

Instead of the usual Tuesday through Thursday time slot, the conference this year runs from Thursday through Saturday (February 2-4), to make it more possible for lay people to attend. Workshops on the Saturday will concentrate strongly on equipping teams for mission. There is also a special rate of . . .

 
                                                              
fxca november 2011 update
Hello there!
Becoming a more Jesus-centred and mission-shaped church (or person) is not something which typically happens particularly quickly or easily. It is going to take time, and therefore we need to be in this for the long haul. Of course this goes against the grain of our instant, just in time, [...]