If you were unable to attend our National Leadership Day and Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, or would like to re-watch a session, we invite you to watch the various livestreamed sessions that are now available here.
2025 National Leadership Day
& Annual General Meeting
MORNING PLENARY SESSION ONE: We The Called: By Name
View this recorded session of our first morning plenary on March 25, 2025.
Join Craig Burton, our General Secretary Treasurer for opening remarks, our host church leading in a time of praise and worship, followed by our General Superintendent, Dave Wells. Dave will highlight two of our seven strategic focuses, “Every Church a House of Prayer” and “Everyone Reaching One”. He will be joined via video with special guest, Brian Alarid of World Prays. Dave and Brian will then dialogue via Zoom. We are excited to release Brian’s recent book in time for this event, “By Name: How to Pray for People and Lead Them to Jesus” as our 2025 gift book to PAOC credential holders. We are believing the Lord to help us in seeing people come into a personal and life transforming relationship with Jesus Christ, even as we pray for those we know … by name. Join in the prayer time in the final segment of this session as we identify and pray for five people each using the B.L.E.S.S. Prayer Card provided to us by Brian Alarid which you can download here.
MORNING PLENARY SESSION TWO: We The Called: By Name
Join us in a brief time of worship, followed by our General Superintendent sharing about our various strategic focuses as a Fellowship. You will then hear from Paul Fraser on Church Multiplication, followed by Jessica Collins and Kevin Janzen from our Strategic Vision Committee on the theme of Next Gen Discipleship. View a video entitled, “Transforming Communities” where you will hear four inspiring stories of how communities are being reached in unique ways nationally and globally with the love of Jesus. Then join two of our Mission Canada coordinators as they interview workers going into the gaps in our nation to reach our Canadian university campuses and Indigenous communities. Watch a video from our Mission Global family and ERDO to hear the latest of what is happening globally. And, lastly, join us for 20 minutes of directed prayer around our strategic focuses led by various PAOC leaders from across the country.
PAOC 2025 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This session includes the business conducted by the PAOC, including executive officer reports and financial reports, as well as voting. Be inspired as various leaders share of the good things God is doing in our nation and around the world.
On behalf of your PAOC executive officers, I welcome you to join us in-person or via live stream for the PAOC’s 2025 NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GATHERING and ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM). This is a biennial event of our PAOC International Office. Leaders gather for vision casting around mission and ministry, constitutional requirements are cared for, and necessary voting is facilitated. We look back on our General Conference held in May 2024 with such fond memories and were thankful for the tremendous turnout of those who joined us in Niagara Falls, ON and online. We anticipate seeing as many of you as are able to join us at PORTICO Community Church, in Mississauga, Ontario, for this upcoming one-day event on March 25.
Our theme is WE THE CALLED: BY NAME. In our morning plenary sessions, we will worship our Lord and have times of intentional prayer together. We will be inspired in our ministry callings by national and global leaders. And, we will be connecting with special guest, Brian Alarid, author of BY NAME: How to Pray for People and Lead Them to Jesus. Brian has been a tremendous inspiration to me personally and is blessing us with our 2025 gift book that credential holders will be receiving in the mail between now and the time of our March gathering. We will be blessed to have Brian speak into our lives and challenge us in a unique way to believe for the lives of those who need to experience a new-found relationship with Jesus Christ.
Please review the details below and make your plans accordingly. This one-day event will be part of a larger week of meetings for our national groups and committees. We ask you to please be in prayer for those in leadership in our Fellowship as we seek to hear the Lord’s voice. There is much kingdom work the Lord has for us to do.
We look forward to seeing you—whether onsite in Mississauga or as one of our online participants. Thank you for living out your calling and being such an integral part of our PAOC family as we work together to see mission and ministry thrive in 2025.
- Dave Wells, General Superintendent
SCHEDULE: TUESDAY MARCH 25 2025
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | REGISTRATION (coffee provided) |
| 9:00 - 10:25 am | PLENARY SESSION: “WE THE CALLED: BY NAME” (held in main auditorium and via live stream / French translation provided on Zoom) |
| 10:25 - 10:45 am | COFFEE BREAK (held in the gym) |
| 10:45 -12:00 pm | PLENARY TWO: “WE THE CALLED: BY NAME” |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | LUNCH & FELLOWSHIP TIME (held in the gym - included for those who register in advance on the Whova app) |
| 1:30 - 3:00 pm | PAOC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (in main auditorium and on live stream) |
| VOTING Conducted through the Simply Voting platform. Voting delegates will be required to register for the AGM in order to participate in online voting. If attending in person, be sure to have a device with you which you can vote from (i.e., laptop, phone, iPad). Wi-Fi will be available. | |
| REPORTING Office of the General Superintendent: Dave Wells with representatives from: Mission Canada Brian Egert, Multiply Network Paul Fraser & Next Gen (Strategic Vision Committee) Fellowship Services: Craig Burton Including Finance Paul Robertson Mission Global: Murray Cornelius Together with Jeff Kelly and introduction to Darcy McAlister | |
| 3:00 pm | WRAP-UP AND DEPARTURE |