by Aileen Van Ginkel | Nov 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
It encourages me greatly to know that I’m engaged in God’s mission for the world. I join in God’s mission, but it’s not my own or my church’s or my organization’s to start with. I’m assured that, wherever I participate in God’s mission, God will lead and guide. What...
by Karen Wilk | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lately, I have been learning a lot about what it means to be a healthy or abundant community and the importance of community for personal and communal well-being. How do you imagine an abundant, vibrant, healthy or competent – as some experts call it – community? I...
by Merv Budd | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
The latest EFC survey numbers are in and they aren’t pretty. Canada is increasingly trending towards secularism. This is probably not a surprise to many. I remember reading a blog by John Stackhouse in reference to the 2011 Statistics Canada census data. He made the...
by Cam Roxburgh | Nov 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Many of us likely remember the Disney movie of the past generation called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The premise was that through some scientific process, the kids or parents were reduced to a tiny replica of themselves. The movie then worked towards restoring things...
by Cam Roxburgh | Jul 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
It was close to two years ago that an experienced pastor friend of mine took me aside for a brief moment and suggested he had some advice for me and for Forge Canada. “Cam, your experience at Southside Community Church in the early days caught the attention of both...
by Merv Budd | Jan 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
January is the month in which Christians celebrate the Epiphany.[1] The commemoration of the wise men coming to worship the child Jesus. Epiphany means “appearing” and it is a celebration of the first appearing of God in flesh into human history. Ever since the...
