Stadia: New Church Strategies has made their first venture into Canada. Stadia West under the direction of David Limiero has partnered with LifeHouse Christian Church as a funding, strategizing, and prayer partner for the work of planting a network of house churches in Vancouver, BC. You can read about Stadia West church plants in this excerpt from the January 2010 Stadia West News:

A Very Good Year

Thanks to some good work by Stuart Fraser, six more Disciples of Christ congregations have been added to the map of our Restoration Movement churches in Canada. Continue reading

Since we have entered the Advent season and since I am an ardent follower of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, who apparently enjoy giving away things to others who didn’t earn them, I would like to offer all of you this parting gift—seven axioms of leadership that I have found to be true at least some of the time. Continue reading

Let’s begin by naming the elephant in the room—a few months ago we started to formulate a theology of preaching and then left you hanging out to dry all summer.  So while you were lounging on the beach, wakeboarding, viewing the splendours of God’s creation or relaxing on the back deck with a glass of iced tea nursing that nagging feeling that all this was incomplete because there was just… Continue reading

LifeHouse Christian Church is a new church plant in Vancouver, BC focussing on the False Creek area of downtown Vancouver. This is part of it’s story. Continue reading

On July 13-15, 2009 Church Planting Canada presented a Church Planter Summit for church planters in Alberta and British Columbia. A summit (sometimes called a boot-camp) is training for those who are in the process of planting a church or are about to plant a church. Ideally it fits in soon after a planter has been assessed and has a vision. Continue reading

We live in age of extremes. Some of us studious types want to develop a theology for everything: a theology of ministry, a theology of work, a theology of worship, a theology of mowing the lawn. The more practical ones among us, claiming Larry the Cable Guy as their patron saint, just want to “git ‘er done!” There is wisdom on both sides. There are pitfalls to each as well. Continue reading

In the church planting circles in which I travel there is some controversy regarding assessment of planters. People question the value of assessments and question the best way to assess planters. Some of the failure stories are spectacular enough to be told over and over again and take on more emphasis than the church planter success stories. Continue reading

It’s true! Huge thanks to Keith Shields for all the work he did putting the map together. It’s awesome, and was a good bit of work!

Click here to check out the map.

We are still looking to finish the map with the Church of Christ (a cappella) locations across the country. If you want to help out or know someone who has already mapped them in google, please let us know. Continue reading

There is something very ‘Canadian’ about being bilingual.  We live in a country that has made an intentional decision to be known as bilingual even though New Brunswick is the only province truly to live in this reality.  Dreams and reality are seldom twins but that does not nullify the need for dreams.
We need to be bilingual in a different way when we preach. Continue reading