Thanks for stopping by the Multiply Network! This month's content includes a new episode in our 'Things We're Learning' video series - A conversation with Dr. Stephanie Borsato, co-vocational church planter and doctor in Nova Scotia. We also share an excerpt from a recent meeting of our Reimagine Cohort, where PAOC General Superintendent, Rev. Dave Wells, shares his thoughts on reimagining at a fellowship or denominational level. In this month's Multiply Network podcast, we collaborate with the Sidewalk Skyline podcast, to join a conversation with podcast host Kevin Rogers and his guest, Steve Pike.
To hear more conversations like these, we invite you to join the community on our private Multiply Network Facebook group. (Go to Facebook and search 'PAOC Multiply Network'.) We'd love to hear what you are learning and dreaming about, and to share in the multiplication journey together.
Because every Canadian deserves an access point to the Gospel - and we're all in this together!
Paul Fraser
Multiply Network Co-ordinator
Interviews
"Things We're Learning" Series - with Dr. Stephanie Borsato
In the latest instalment of the "Things We're Learning" series, we catch up Dr. Stephanie Borsato from Clare, Nova Scotia. Dr. Borsato works three days a week as a frontline worker in the local hospital and is planting Église du Phare church with her husband Mario the rest of the week. Stephanie has a unique perspective from a co-vocational planting lens as she is engaging with the community every day. Check it out!
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Episode #51 - Urban Mission & Planting - with Steve Pike (In Collaboration with Sidewalk Skyline Podcast)
Steve Pike has been at the forefront of church planting for thirty years. He served as founding director of Church Multiplication Network (CMN) for the Assemblies of God (USA) denomination. Seeing a need for more church plants in cities, he founded Urban Islands Project, which exists to “increase the presence of the Church in the Urban O.” We’ll ask Steve to tell us about the Urban O. He’s also released a book entitled ‘Next Wave: Discovering the 21st Century Church’.
Grateful to have a few friends hosting together in this episode: Brian Egert is the director of PAOC's Mission Canada, which focuses on reaching the gaps in Canada with the Gospel; Kevin Rogers leads the Urban Ministry Guiding Group for Mission Canada, pastors a church in Windsor, which is focused on those in the community with the greatest needs, and is the primary host of the Sidewalk Skyline Podcast.
To listen or download, click on one of the links below and select Episode 51.
Stories and Videos
Dave Wells and the Reimagine Cohort
Recently, our Multiply Network Reimagine Cohort was joined by PAOC General Superintendent Dave Wells. In this excerpt of the recording, Dave talks about what it could look like to reimagine a fellowship or denomination. He emphasizes realignment to the main things, contextualization and willingness to adapt to our changing culture. Check it out!
Watch Here"Things We're Learning" series - with Ejay Tupe
In this next instalment of the "Things We're Learning" video series, we chat with Ejay Tupe, a Mission Canada worker who lives and works in the downtown core of Toronto. In this interview, we chat about three areas he is seeing fruitfulness in ministry, and he encourages us to engage these three things as well!
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Articles and Blogs
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Read MoreWhen Culture Tilts Away from your Church
Thinking differently can be difficult. Our ruts testify to our staggering preferences for the familiar. Even if they slow us down to a creeping clamber, they’re ‘our ruts,’ and we prefer what we know. But at some point, in our crawl, some of us look up and around and ask, “Is this familiar path that I’m traveling taking me where I need to go?” Certainly, nobody should be asking this question more earnestly and more honestly than those who lead God’s people.
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