Missionfest Manitoba 2014

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Missionfest

Are you looking forward to Missionfest as much as I am? We are one week away from this awesome event. The magazine with all the information you need is here.

As we are one of the sponsoring churches of this event,  I wanted to point out a couple of things about this weekend.

1) Glendyne Gerrard is one of the speakers. She used to work in our district office and her husband, Doug, was our District Superintendent for many years.

2) Another CMA connection is Marie Ens. She is coming from Cambodia and will be bringing her choir and dance group from Place of Rescue orphanage.

3) There is a great event on the U of M campus with some of the Missionfest speakers who will be educating us about human trafficking. See the Facebook event here.

4) And, finally . . . this event cannot happen without volunteers and volunteers are still needed. Would you consider serving the church of Winnipeg in this way? There will be a sign-up sheet at church on Sunday. Children’s workers needed for Friday evening, Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon. Greeters and hosts needed for all events.

A New Day – The Resilience & Restructuring of Religion in Canada

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(from the Preface of A New Day)

It’s a new day for religion in Canada.

What most of us thought was happening isn’t happening. Religion is not going away.

Many observers have focused their attention on the decline of a few of the previously prominent groups, and assumed their plight is the plight of religion as a whole.

They’ve been wrong. The ongoing market for things religious has meant that other players have been given the opportunity to increase their market shares. Some have been stepping forward.

What’s more, with accelerated immigration, the global vitality of religion is having and will continue to have a dramatic impact on the state of religion in Canada.

The immediate big winners? Roman Catholics, evangelicals, and Muslims.

This is the FREE book I mentioned in my sermon today. Please download this pdf and look at the research for yourself.

http://projectcanadabooks.com/images/A_NEW_DAY_Sept_12_2012.pdf