Has COVID-19 been a challenge or an opportunity? Our church has been challenged on many levels – but we have been reminded of our original call, to pursue the things God had sent us into our neighbourhood to do. Southside,… Read more →
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Missional Commons: a Canadian conversation
by Cam Roxburgh • • 0 Comments
Forge Canada and The Missional Network have initiated ‘Missional Commons’ online, to foster conversation across Canada. The first, next Tuesday (April 14), filled up immediately, so they added another one on the 16th. Cam Roxburgh of Forge Canada will host… Read more →
New expressions of church: Underground Network
by Cailey Morgan • • 0 Comments
Cailey Morgan has just completed a series based on unique church expressions: Dinner Church, Campus and Community, Blended Ecology and Underground Network. Following is her Underground Network article, which features an interview with a well known local leader. I interviewed… Read more →
Missions Fest: ‘Mission: Discipling’ includes loving your neighbourhood
by Barry Jung • • 1 Comment
Some are inclined to think that Missions Fest – which takes place all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday (January 17 – 19) – focuses only on overseas missions. That never was the case, but the local focus is stronger than… Read more →
Snapshots of faith in Burnaby
by Peter Biggs • • 2 Comments
Peter Biggs of The Light Magazine is researching one Metro Vancouver / Fraser Valley municipality each month, and producing a focus on each one. The March issue features Burnaby. The City of Burnaby is the third largest city in British Columbia (after Vancouver and… Read more →
Faithful Presence: Join Alan Hirsch and Forge leaders
by Alan Hirsch • • 0 Comments
“Forge Canada serves the church by evoking missional conversation, equipping churches to join God on mission and then helping to establish multiplying missional Christian communities in neighbourhoods across Canada.” So says Cam Roxburgh, national director of Forge Canada and team… Read more →
Faithful: Southside Community Church
by Cam Roxburgh • • 0 Comments
As national director for Forge Canada and a seasoned missional leader, Cam Roxburgh knows that “within every movement there is a tendency to want to look for models to copy,” but that “copycatting” is not the answer. Nonetheless, he acknowledges… Read more →
The Vancouver Consultation
by Jonathan Bird / Flyn Ritchie • • 1 Comment
“If you had to prove that God is alive in Vancouver, where would you take people to show them? What is God doing in our churches and communities – where do you see signs of hope and deep flourishing in… Read more →
Place-making: The latest fad or a foretaste of the kingdom of God?
by Cam Roxburgh • • 0 Comments
Belief in the importance of place has been growing over the past years. I have heard it referenced in an increasing number of conversations on both sides of the Atlantic. I have witnessed it at a book table at a recent conference.… Read more →