On April 18, McDaniel Phillips will help us see how discipleship connects the church and community, and discern how intentional discipleship can happen in our contexts.
And don’t forget about John Bowen on The Unfolding Gospel coming up quick on March 28, and May 30: Post-Enlightenment Evangelism with Merv Budd, Ontario Regional Director, Forge Canada.
Episode 6: Epilogue. Consider the concepts of remembering, re-membering and un-forgetting. What role is there for grief and for new imagination in these ideas? We will reflect on some learnings and some concerns about this series and ask together, what path of deeper wholeness are we being invited into as a result of having heard these stories?
Just joining us? Start at the beginning: Episode 1
Don’t miss this great learning opportunity! Evangelist, author and Wycliffe College’s Professor Emeritus of Evangelism John Bowen will be joining us to share a big-picture understanding of the gospel, to challenge us to consider how we might respond to the people around us who have concerns and questions.
CBWC has partnered with Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec (CBOQ) and Salvation Army to hear and share stories of everyday pastors and leaders engaging on mission in our complicated culture. In this series of Evangelism Masterclasses, you will hear disciples on the ground talk about joining God in many different aspects of having relational conversations with folk from wherever they are in a journey of curiosity about life, meaning, hope, love and joy. Here’s a preview of other upcoming classes:
April 18, 2023: Discipleship Culture
“How discipleship connects the church and community is essential. Identify how intentional discipleship can happen in your context.”
Presenter: McDaniel Philips, Discipleship Essentials Ministry Ambassador, TWR Canada
May 30, 2023: Post-Enlightenment Evangelism
“Evangelism has been thought of as a tool for converting, if we simply find the right way, we could get people to become Christians. Perhaps it is time to not simply rethink our evangelistic methods but rethink the whole enterprise and the assumptions on which it has been built.”
Presenter: Merv Budd, Ontario Regional Director, Forge Canada
Sign up for any or all of these classes here.
We hope you’ve been challenged and encouraged thus far by the stories Jodi Spargur is bringing to light in her podcast Re-membering: Indigenous Teachers of the Jesus Way. Join us now for Episode 5: Jesus just might live, along with all my sins, in Fisher Bay, MB.
Join us next week for the finale!
Start at the beginning: Episode 1
As we continue the story unfolding in Northern Manitoba find out what a bar-room brawler, a wealthy Oji-Cree cattle rancher and the son of a slave all have in common? Meet Henry Prince’s A-team of pastors in Northern Manitoba in Episode 4 of Re-membering: Indigenous Teachers of the Jesus Way.
Join us next week for Episode 5.
Start at the beginning: Episode 1
What to do when a church planter shows up on your door? We travel this week to MB, to meet Henry Prince, whose grandfather signed Treaty 1 and who would become chief in time as well. But what happens when the St. Peter reserve is disbanded? Join us for Episode 3: 500 Mile Parish, by train, barge and birch bark canoe
Join us next week to see what Rev. Prince has been up to.
Missed the beginning of the story? Get caught up on Episode 1 and Episode 2.
We hope you’ll join us for this great lineup of Masterclasses we’ve got coming, in partnership with CBOQ and Salvation Army.
Here’s a preview of upcoming classes:
February 28, 2023: Inspired to Multiply
“Encounter stories of new faith in Canada. A leader/evangelist with experience in Canadian communities will provoke discernment of how we can discern the opportunities around us.”
Presenter: Arash Azadi, Pastor
March 28, 2023: The Unfolding Gospel
“A ‘big picture’ understanding of the gospel is shared to challenge us to consider how we might respond to the people around us who have concerns and questions.”
Presenter: John Bowen, Professor Emeritus of Evangelism, Wycliffe College
April 18, 2023: Discipleship Culture
“How discipleship connects the church and community is essential. Identify how intentional discipleship can happen in your context.”
Presenter: McDaniel Philips, Discipleship Essentials Ministry Ambassador, TWR Canada
May 30, 2023: Post-Enlightenment Evangelism
“Evangelism has been thought of as a tool for converting, if we simply find the right way, we could get people to become Christians. Perhaps it is time to not simply rethink our evangelistic methods but rethink the whole enterprise and the assumptions on which it has been built.”
Presenter: Merv Budd, Ontario Regional Director, Forge Canada
Sign up for any or all of these classes here.
Last week in Episode 1 of Jodi Spargur’s new podcast sharing stories of bold action, creative strategies and wise Indigenous leadership, we discovered the wide array of labourers assembled in the Puget Sound for hops harvest and spiritual harvest. This week we will explore what threatens the work and what plans get hatched to respond.
www.redclover.ca/blog/podcast-ep2
Join us next week as we meet another dynamic leader, this time in Cree territory.
By Shannon Youell
Re-membering. Baptists love to remember the stories of our journey to be the distinct people of God joining God at work in his mission to the world he so loves. We also love to tell stories of where God is at work right now in our churches across Western Canada. Both stories of the past, and stories of the present, inspire and us and give us imagination on how we can join God in the work he has always been doing and is doing in where we live, work, play and pray. For this reason, we’re taking a break from our series on Healthy Leadership to bring you some stories that we think need telling.
For the next several weeks, we are so excited to share stories on this blog that we hope will help us re-member the stories that we don’t find often told. Rev. Jodi Spargur is launching a six-part podcast about early Indigenous Christian contact in Canada. In the podcast, we will explore tales of bold action, creative strategies and wise Indigenous leadership that interacted with what would become our Baptist denomination.
Here’s the first episode. Enjoy!
Join us next week to find out more about this person who is described as one who speaks in a way that “all hearts respond, sinners melt, and saints rejoice.”
It’s not common for us to post twice in a single week, but we have a few exciting resources to share with you!
First off, you may remember how excited I was at Banff Pastors’ Conference about Matt Canlis’ film Godspeed, and his more recent book, Backyard Pilgrim. I even rounded up all the slightly-used copies I could get my hands on from my own church friends and handed them out to folks at BPC. Well, as it turns out, our friends at Forge Canada are providing an opportunity to walk through the book during Lent, beginning with a webinar with Matt Canlis on January 23. Here’s what Forge has to say on the topic:
We invite you to join us in the journey of becoming Backyard Pilgrims this February as we enter into the Lenten season. Starting the week of February 19, we will be running two book study groups that will be walking through the book, Backyard Pilgrim, by Matt Canlis. The groups will be led by Deb Judas and Bob Baumann, who are both pastors and members of the Forge Canada team. Groups will meet once a week, over the course of 6 weeks to discuss what they are learning and how they are seeing God at work in their lives and in their neighbourhood.
Being part of one of these groups will give you an opportunity to go on this pilgrimage for yourself, while also seeing if this is something that you might want to take your church through at a later date. Each day there is a reflection (the Bible path) and a time to get out into your community (to walk the parish path). It will give you new lenses in which to see both the scripture passages as well as the people and places in your neighbourhood.
In preparation for the groups, you’re invited to join us for a webinar with Matt Canlis, January 23rd at 10:00am Pacific. During the webinar you’ll get the opportunity to hear a bit more about Matt’s journey and we’ll explain more about what the Backyard Pilgrim journey looks like in our cohorts.
Here’s the link to signup for the webinar, and here’s the form if you want to get involved in the reading groups.
And of course, I again want to draw your attention to the next series of Evangelism Masterclasses being offered in partnership with CBWC, CBOQ and Salvation Army.
February 28, 2023 : Inspired to Multiply
Our very own Pastor Arash Azadi from Emmanuel Iranian Church will be sharing at the Evangelism Masterclass in February. Join us to encounter stories of new faith in Canada. Arash is an evangelist with experience in Canadian communities who will help us envision how we can discern the opportunities around us.
March 28, 2023: The Unfolding Gospel
“A ‘big picture’ understanding of the gospel is shared to challenge us to consider how we might respond to the people around us who have concerns and questions.”
Presenter: John Bowen, Professor Emeritus of Evangelism, Wycliffe College
April 18, 2023: Discipleship Culture
“How discipleship connects the church and community is essential. Identify how intentional discipleship can happen in your context.”
Presenter: McDaniel Philips, Discipleship Essentials Ministry Ambassador, TWR Canada
May 30, 2023: Post-Enlightenment Evangelism
“Evangelism has been thought of as a tool for converting, if we simply find the right way, we could get people to become Christians. Perhaps it is time to not simply rethink our evangelistic methods but rethink the whole enterprise and the assumptions on which it has been built.”
Presenter: Merv Budd, Ontario Regional Director, Forge Canada
Sign up for any or all of these classes here.
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