What role does mental wellbeing play in helping your church flourish? This four-week online series will equip you with practical tools, compassionate insights, and proven strategies for nurturing mental and relational wellbeing in your faith community. Facilitator: Tom Jantzi, Director of Clergy Care, Shalem Mental Health Network; Anne Martin, Director of Restorative Practices
What role does mental wellbeing play in helping your church flourish? This four-week online series will equip you with practical tools, compassionate insights, and proven strategies for nurturing mental and relational wellbeing in your faith community. Facilitator: Tom Jantzi, Director of Clergy Care, Shalem Mental Health Network; Anne Martin, Director of Restorative Practices
What role does mental wellbeing play in helping your church flourish? This four-week online series will equip you with practical tools, compassionate insights, and proven strategies for nurturing mental and relational wellbeing in your faith community. Facilitator: Tom Jantzi, Director of Clergy Care, Shalem Mental Health Network; Anne Martin, Director of Restorative Practices
What role does mental wellbeing play in helping your church flourish? This four-week online series will equip you with practical tools, compassionate insights, and proven strategies for nurturing mental and relational wellbeing in your faith community. Facilitator: Tom Jantzi, Director of Clergy Care, Shalem Mental Health Network; Anne Martin, Director of Restorative Practices
Navigating the spiritual landscape of children, teens, and young adults can be both rewarding and challenging. Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the spiritual characteristics of children, teens, and young adults. This session is designed for children, youth and young adult ministry leaders, teachers, coordinators and pastors seeking to deepen their understanding of children,... Read more »
This virtual event is designed not only to inform, but to connect us in a deeper, more grace-filled way. It is an opportunity to hear timely updates, explore our shared biblical call to welcome the stranger, and—perhaps most importantly—talk with one another in a spirit of respectful curiosity and faith. Through facilitated small group discussions,... Read more »
For this month’s conversation, we will begin by looking at the meditation published on the front page of the April Christian Courier: Resurrection in Ruins by Brian Walsh. Then we’ll consider fresh observations and responses to CC’s survey about the future of the CRC in Canada. Are there hopeful signs in the midst of the... Read more »
What can we learn about ourselves from the survey that the Christian Courier put out last month? An amazing number of people responded and there is a lot to talk about! Survey-inspired articles expand on how respondents feel about the future of the CRC in Canada and whether respondents support a distinct Canadian CRC. A... Read more »
Facilitator: Steve Berkenpas, Lead pastor, Living Hope CRC To learn more: about the church’s calling to justice & mercy: Diaconal Ministries, World Renew about dementia care: Positive Approach to Care BOOKS Dementia: Living in the Memories of God by John Swinton John Swinton specializes in practical theology and has many years experience as a caregiver.... Read more »
Facilitator: Caroline Short, First Vancouver CRC, Synodical Task Force Member, Medically Assisted Suicide Given the availability, public endorsement, and potential expansion of MAiD in Canada, what does Christian living and dying look like? This webinar will consider the situations MAiD seeks to resolve and the Christian view of the value of life, responses to suffering... Read more »
Why are CRC pastors who have loved their congregations and the CRC identity now leaving? What exactly is happening? Could your pastor be considering this? How does this change a denomination? Our conversation will start with two articles from the February issue of Christian Courier: “Re-sign or Resign” by Mike Borgert and a piece by Meghan Kort presenting the experiences and... Read more »
Facilitator: Rachel Vroege, Diaconal Ministries Canada West & Amanda Lockitch, Disability without Poverty Resources referenced in the webinar: about the church’s calling to justice & mercy: Diaconal Ministries, World Renew about disability without poverty: Disability Without Poverty Disability without Poverty Podcast Episode 7 with Sandra Pronteau: https://www.disabilitywithoutpoverty.ca/en/podcast/episode/episode-7-sandra-pronteau Write a letter to your MP through our #GuaranteeTheBenefit... Read more »