Michelle Van Loon turns our attention to the gap in discipleship for middle-aged and retired women. Click here to read “Middle-Aged Women Face a Crisis of Discipleship.”
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Dan and I spent all of our time in the capital city Colombo, so I didn’t get to see much of Sri Lanka. I did however meet pastors from all over at the Annual Meeting. They greeted us warmly and I feel like I’m leaving with many new friends. There
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“In the Bible we read about “beautiful feet” (Romans 10:15). Mine are not beautiful, I assure you, in their human form. However, they are made more beautiful when they move—when they go on mission—and are missional feet.” Read all of Ed Stetzer’s “Beautiful, Missional Feet.”
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I’m feeling very French today! This weekend Karlene and I met with most of our pastors and their spouses from Quebec (I was really proud of Karlene for dusting off her one year of high school French for the weekend: she met with all the pastors’ wives, and then taught
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What exactly does a military chaplain do? Well, I can’t speak for all of them but at General Conference, I did have the chance to sit down with Andrew Klinger and learn a little about what he does. Andrew is an ordained Free Methodist pastor and military chaplain with the
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In “Grandma Didn’t Go To Church: 9 Ways First-Generation Christians Are Making Me A Better Pastor“, Karl Vaters explores how to pastor people when they’re not just the only believers in their family, they’re the first Christian in generations.
This past Sunday Karlene and I enjoyed the opportunity to be with our Pine Orchard Camp family. The camp chose to invite an anointed young adult worship team to lead the family camp. What a God-moment when I realized that I was using the Bible passage immediately following the passage
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Holt Free Methodist Church began back in 1909 when a farming family in Mount Albert, ON donated some of their land to build the church. In the 1970s the old church was torn down and a new one was built. There were concerns about taking on debt but the new
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“I get it. Culture is changing rapidly and radically. The methods we have used successfully for decades have become ineffective, even counter-productive. Heaven? Spiritual laws? Bible verses? These no longer spark spiritual interest. Evangelism training isn’t what it used to be, but in many cases is uncertain of what it
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A few years back Terry and Cindy (our pastoral family in Newmarket, ON) contacted me to extend an invitation to use a cottage designated for pastors. “It’ll cost you $100 for the week Cliff,” he said, “and that’s only to pay for the cleaner to prepare the cottage for the
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