During my day in Kenya, I spent two weeks with the pastor in the village of Kabuku. It happened to be at the time when the Diocese of Mount Kenya South was celebrating the one hundred-year anniversary of the arrival of the first Anglican missionaries in the area. The first station in Kikuyuland was founded [...]

It is not unusual for a Kenyan diocese to have a diocesan officer responsible for mission, evangelism and church planting. One such Director of Mission speaks of his vision and his personal experience.
The outreach program of this diocese aims at strengthening Christians into a hopeful, living relationship with God through Jesus. We preach and heal [...]

When I was in my parish, I would sometimes look at the geography and say, “If I went and started a congregation in that locality, a number of Anglicans who live there and who want to come to church can actually be served better from there.” Most people are not readily mobile and cannot afford [...]

Prior to my trip to Kenya, I was told, “Africa will always be a part of you.” Only now do I realize how true this is.  
I was part of a team of three sent to minister in the rural diocese of Bungoma. Our team conducted four seminars over a period of two weeks, teaching [...]

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The movie Pay it Forward introduced the world to the idea that a good deed should be “paid forward” and not “paid back.” This video, from the Primate’s Evangelism Commission, uses the same [...]

This Article is from the Spring 2007 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

One thing a mission can provide is a new vision of ministry and how it can be carried on. An inner city mission in Edmonton sparked innovations that continue today.

A team of students from Wycliffe College spent an extended weekend [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

You are an unchurched person. You believe in God, but you have little time for organised religion. If pressed, you would say you are a spiritual person, but church? Well, thanks, but no thanks.
What will get you inside the church? [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

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I am very impressed by what I read of the development of the congregation at Christ Church, Cataraqui. As I read the interview with Ed Dallow, I believe there are several lessons to be [...]