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“He kept on trying to tell me I was a Mennonite,” Pastor Trey Ferguson recalls with a grin. “And I was, like, I can assure you that is not true.”
It was 2020. Lockdown had pushed people online. Then a wave of tweets responding to the police murder of George Floyd drew Ferguson onto a Twitter stream called #weirdchristiantwitter.
There he encountered a Menn...
Having planted a church, established a new site, led a church transition and an intentional church revitalization, I know planting churches brings life to those who mother them, and church revitalization brings life to those who respond to a call to embody the Gospel in new wineskins.
There is no one right way to start a new church and no one right way to revive a s...
On most Sunday afternoons, rambunctious kids interrupt the prayers of our little house church. The adults pause to make room, fetch a snack or help calm a dispute. Then we return to prayer, carrying to God a sibling’s health, a refugee at risk waiting on an application process, the choking smoke from wildfires in the north.
That’s what good news sounds like in my wo...
I had just left Sherbrooke—where I had had dreams of belonging to the local biker group—and had arrived in Montreal, my hometown, when I became a believer. Two years later, in February 1993, God confirmed I was an evangelist.
I got to work.
I spoke about God to anyone who would (or would not) listen. I took my Bible everywhere, attended lunchtime prayer me...
It’s been an old-fashioned (read: snowy) winter in our part of Canada, but we’re heading into my favourite part of the year, which begins with maple sap dripping and days lengthening followed by the welcome surprise of emerging snowdrops and crocuses. My eyes always crave green at this time of year, and I’m delighted to find it—and sometimes I plant seeds indoors just for the...