So many churches are leveraging this season to build bridges with their communities. This Saturday Faith (Brad Eisan - dinosaur on the right) and Hope (Joanne Ozon - hotdog on the left) partnered together for a trunk or treat with 56 community children participating. Assistant Pastor Tracey Eisan (Faith) made balloon animals for the kids [...]
It’s Monday Again
Another excellent CE-150 Workshop was convened this past Tuesday in the District Boardroom by Evan Oxner (Amherst). All Lead Pastors of churches with 50-150 in attendance were invited to participate and more than half showed up or tuned in by Zoom to address topics of contextual effectiveness. This mixed-medium allowed for those from St. John's to [...]
It’s Monday Again
Lead Pastor Joanne Ozon (Hope) preached from a wheelchair yesterday morning. Her left leg is still paralyzed from the nerve damage resulting from a spinal infection. Her husband Mike (she affectionately calls "The Pastor's Wife") shared, "She continues to go for physio and we are claiming a healing in her body. She preached a powerful [...]
It’s Monday Again
It was exciting to visit yesterday at New Hope's (Scott Prime) Kingston Campus. This new Kingdom expression is almost 5 months old and has many Sundays near the 80 mark in attendance. With a strong worship team, excellent children's ministry, and a rotation of live preachers with the Kentville Campus, this has been very well received [...]
Monday Again
(Full gallery of Family Camp 2018 can be seen on the Beulah Camp website) Yet another fantastic Beulah Family Camp (BFC) concluded yesterday afternoon and entered the annals of our district heritage. Record registrations this year for Jr. VBS, VBS, and the Youth Track, are celebrated evidence that the spiritual benefit of camp ministry for […]
Monday Again
Super Saturday launched Beulah Family Camp 2018 with great weather, delicious food, a packed day of family activities, music concerts, and wrapped up with a truly spectacular fireworks show at the Beulah beach. Friday night’s Prayer Covering was a powerful time of intercession. I was privileged to share in a prayer triplet with someone who […]
Monday Again
Caton’s Island launched its summer of ministry this past weekend with a brand-new July Family Camp at the conclusion of training week for 55 full-time staff (not including CIT’s – counselor-in-training which occurred earlier in June). The August long weekend Family Camp has been sold out months in advance for the past two years, prompting […]
Monday Again
The Wesleyan Church celebrates 50 years of ministry on June 26, 2018. Yup, that’s tomorrow. More will be said about this at District Conference but this Wesleyan Life article gives the full story including a 3.5 minute video narrated by General Superintendent Wayne Schmidt. In honour of this historic union, you can experience the actual merger […]
Monday Again
Raising leaders matters. Our District Board of Ministerial Development (DBMD) offers an annual THRIVE Workshop for Licensed Ministers and those recently Ordained. On Monday and Tuesday of this past week, Dr. Dan Poff (Indiana Wesleyan University) provided point leadership for 23 participants and coaches on the theme of dealing with conflict management in the local church. […]
Monday Again
The service at Journey (Matt Maxwell) yesterday morning was followed by their Local Church Conference – ‘tis the season. Hats off to Matt and the LBA in proposing a variation of the Carver Model of Governance (as approved by the DBA) which was passed without dissenting vote for the forward leadership of this great church. […]