May 2019

Nous l’église

Il y a un aspect de la santé de l’église dont nous ne parlons pas assez. Lorsque nous parlons de la santé de l’église nous pensons systèmes, disciple / rayonnement, vision / mission, stratégies de revitalisation et ainsi de suite. Tout cela est bien, mais il semble qu’il manque quelque […]

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CliffsNotes – May 28, 2019

Who evaluates the Board? Part 3 The Board of Administration of the FMCiC is exploring what it looks like to become a healthy board. We are discussing the “culture” of the BOA and of the FMCiC and creating an organizational structure that would help us move toward what we believe

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Interns Wanted!

Next Church, in Kingston, ON, sent Todd Stelmach as a Community Development Missionary to Rustle Church.  The neighborhood surrounding Rustle Church is the eleventh poorest neighborhood in Canada. Kingston is a fairly affluent city, but they concentrated all their government housing and most of their social services and shelters in

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We the Church

There is a component to church health that we don’t talk about enough.  When we talk about church health we think systems, discipleship/ outreach, vision/ mission, revitalization strategies and so on.  This is all good but something seems to be missing. Or maybe it’s just assumed, but if we assume

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CliffsNotes – May 21, 2019

Who evaluates the Board? Part 2 Great question, but we began answering it last week. The board in a healthy church is elected to prayerfully ask 3 important questions: Do we have the right vision? Do we have the right people on the bus? Are we financially healthy (“The goal

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CliffsNotes – May 14, 2019

Who evaluates the Board? Great question! I mean, the board in a healthy church is elected to prayerfully ask 3 important questions: Do we have the right vision? Do we have the right people on the bus? Are we financially healthy (“The goal is not a balanced budget, but a

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CliffsNotes – May 7, 2019

Pastors, an offer you should consider… Part 2 Last week I had Paul Millar, our pastor from the happening church in Westport, tell you about his experience with Church Renewal out of Steinbach MB. I also mentioned in my notes last week that I had the opportunity to visit with

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Rien ne vaut une bonne histoire

Récemment, j’ai eu l’occasion de participer à un service de baptême. J’adore ces types de services. Ils sont probablement mes préférés. L’une des meilleures parties est d’entendre les récits de ce que Dieu a fait dans la vie des gens. Ce que j’ai entendu ce jour-là était émouvant, inspirant et

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