Redwood Park Church foyer with a large poster featuring the Sleeping Giant, a local landmark, with words superimposed on top: “Church for the City.”
11.17.25

A Church for the City

How is God breaking your heart for the things that break His?” Knowing that God could speak to us collectively through our broken hearts, we gather...
To the hard and dark places
11.03.25

Three New Strategies for Engaging in Jesus' Mission

We have three new strategies for engaging Jesus’ mission in International: Church Development, Relief & Development, and Marketplace. We will go, a...
Historical view of a station of the Hudson's Bay Company. Wood engraving, published in 1899.
10.27.25

Is Modern Missions Colonialism All Over Again?

Colonialism imposes its culture, values and religion on others. Biblical mission only extends an invitation. Reaching the nations with the gospel o...
A field of flowers in Saskatchewan, Canada.
10.20.25

Staying Curious on the Yellowhead Highway

I recently witnessed disciple-making happening throughout churches in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, all within reach of the Yellowhead Highway. The be...
Baptisms in Lake Ontario with Whitby Chinese New Venture and Toronto Evergreen New Venture. Supported by the Canadian Chinese Alliance Churches Association (CCACA)
10.13.25

From Death to Life

The New Venture expression of church may look completely different than what we’ve ever known of church. And yet, God is still at work multiplying ...
President Herbold Presenting the Growth Drivers on stage at Assembly 2024
10.06.25

Vision 2034

Doubling our reach by 2034 requires faithfulness and an unwavering commitment to prayer and unity as we trust the Lord's creativity and imagination...
A bar chart showing high expectations and a much lower reality
09.29.25

The 'We-Factor'

Jesus did not minister to them through a program, but a life-on-life, highly relational commission. The church is supposed to be the family of God,...
Interlocking houses stacked on top of each other.
09.22.25

The Slow Work of Faithful Presence

God speaks in the pauses. He invites us in the pauses. And the culmination of these little pauses leads to openness and deeper awareness of the Spi...
The Irwins are on the right, in the front row. Dr. Jaffray is in the middle of the front row. Date unknown. Courtesy Bonnie Burnett.)
09.15.25

God's Grace Through Generations

One hundred years ago, the Alliance Family sent missionaries like the Irwins into countries with no witness for Christ, and from the beginning He w...
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