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Springing into Action: Stories of Innovation and Experimentation in the Canadian context


Springing into Action: Stories of Innovation and Experimentation in the Canadian context

Thursdays: June 6, 13, & 20th
1:30 - 3pm ET online

Spring has fully bloomed across Canada, awakening us to a symphony of blooming wildflowers, vibrant green trees, and new life in the warming sun. We love to celebrate these new beginnings and fresh hope as they manifest within the life of the church. Join us for a three-week series from pastors and ministry leaders who are planting seeds and seeing new life emerge here on Canadian soil. Allow these inspiring stories to ignite and encourage your creative missional endeavours within your local context.

Learning Centre sessions are recorded and made available afterwards for those who sign up but cannot attend in person

 

Week 1 (June 6)

This week in the Learning Centre, we are joined by Michael Garner, an Anglican priest and chaplain at the University of Ottawa. 

During this session, we will learn from Michael about how his church in Ottawa addressed significant challenges facing their neighbourhood. Their story will encourage and inspire, reminding us that the local church can break inertia and find solutions around an issue when we approach God prayerfully and with open hands.

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Michael Garner

Michael Garner is an Anglican Priest and the Incumbent of St. Albans Church. Michael is also a chaplain at the University of Ottawa. He lives with his wife (Rochelle) and kids (Isaac and Elise) in Ottawa.

Week 2 (June 13)

This week in the Learning Centre we are joined by Alicia Wilson and Siobhan Koch, co-creators of IMBY - In My Backyard. An innovative Christian non profit focused on addressing the affordable housing crisis and loneliness epidemic. 

During this session we will learn how IMBY came to life, how they created their first build, and their dreams for what comes next. IMBY is truly worth celebrating - a made in Canada, good news story of what can happen when Jesus followers pray, dream and collaborate to meet the needs of their neighbours 

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Alicia Wilson

Alicia Wilson lives in community with her sister, brother-in-law and nephew in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the founder of Restoration Project, a non-profit that teaches woodworking to adults with developmental disabilities. She is also the co-founder of a new housing movement called In My Backyard (IMBY for short). Alicia studied at McMaster Divinity College, where she finished her MTS

Week 3 (June 20)

During this session, we will learn from Jared about how his new church plant in Saskatoon addresses the challenges of deconstruction in Canada. We will spend time wrestling with some early reports from this fledgling congregation at the crossroads of faith and the arts. 

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Jared Siebert

Jared Siebert serves in many capacities in the Canadian Church. He founded an organization of missionary church leaders called the New Leaf Network and is one of Canada’s leading inter-denominational church planter trainers. But church planting isn’t the only kind of experience he has garnered. In his ministry roles Jared has had the opportunity to work with churches of all kinds from all over Canada. He has acted as a consultant in churches large and small, urban and rural, and new and long established. He has written a discipleship curriculum, a handbook on church planter training, and a Church Health workbook called the LifePlan. As a sought after speaker and consultant Jared is uniquely able to draw insight and inspiration from a variety of sources and bring that to the table as he helps churches move toward unity and the mission of God.

 

Register

There are two options to access the New Leaf Learning Centre: a monthly subscription or a one-session pass (below). For the monthly subscription, please visit here.

 

The suggested amount is $30 ($10/week); simply choose your amount in the drop-down menu and “sign up now”.

We would like for you to join us, so if you can’t afford the registration at this time, please reach out to us and we will make sure you are able to participate: admin@newleafnetwork.ca

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Bridging Us: A Learning Party
Later Event: September 12
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