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Rev. Darren Herbold:
Hi, Alliance Canada. I wanted to send out a last minute update to provide an opportunity for us to give personally to the Global Advance Fund. This is a moment where we can collectively and personally participate in his plan and make a lasting impact around the world. I know many of you have already been incredibly generous, and I want to say thank you.
I truly mean it. Your support and generosity have been instrumental in advancing God's mission. Your generosity, no matter the size, embodies this spirit of joyful giving, impacting lives, communities, and the rich tradition we are all a part of. Looking forward, I'm filled with great anticipation about what God has in store for the Alliance as we faithfully submit to Christ calling an example.
This can signify the start of a new chapter, and it's a time to discern God's calling for us as we stand on the threshold of a new season. Let's prayerfully seek his guidance, being open to his leading in our lives in the collective purpose of his church. May this season of giving be filled with purpose, unity, and a shared commitment to God's work.
You're support at this crucial moment will undoubtedly leave a lasting legacy for those in need as we seek to make Jesus known in Canada and around the world. As a quick reminder, let me reshare a highlight video of the new ways the Alliance Canada is partnering with Jesus across the country. I trust this will encourage you and others that you might share it with.
But have a happy New Year, everyone. We'll see you in January.
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New Ventures Video
Esdras Felix / Pastor in Quebec:
We’re really seeing that our society is closed to the Gospel. So we really need leaders with lots of courage.
Darin Martin / Dundas New Venture:
My heart for people who were sort of disenfranchized with the church is this where some of this started from and they are just not interested in going to church in the traditional sense.
Jasmine Hum / New Ventures Implementer:
I think that Quebec is a really unique place when it comes to the church, and leadership will mean thinking outside the box and being inventive and creative and being willing to take risks and step out in new ways from maybe what the church has done before.
Dave Enns / New Ventures Director:
All across Canada, the church is facing new challenges and people are stepping up to meet those challenges. New Ventures is here to help the local church embrace Canada as a mission field and respond with compassion, hope and curiosity.
Esdras Felix / Pastor in Quebec:
My name is Esdras Felix. I’m from Haitian heritage, and I was born here in Quebec.
Dave Enns / New Ventures Director:
We start with people – identify new leaders or leaders who God is drawing in a new direction.
Jacob Ma / Pastor at Montreal Zion:
My name is Jacob Ma. I am a pastor at Montreal Zion
Anka Johow / New Ventures Leader
So about two years ago I started working with Pastor Joseph Turin in the new venture Ambrose House.
Brant Levert / Church @the Table
Susan and I were serving in Thailand in 2017 and we're returning back to Canada to have our first child and in our quiet times of praying, we were asking the Lord, ‘Do we go back to Thailand? Do we go back to a previous city that we were living in?’ And we felt the Lord say ‘RENFREW.’
Dave Enns / New Ventures Director:
Then we pursue clarity coming alongside to guide, to ask questions, and to discern together where God is at work and how He's calling us to join him in that work. We take time to listen, to pray and to explore before jumping in.
Darin Martin / Dundas New Venture:
As we as a group started to think about what that can look like to start something here.
We were encouraged by the New Ventures to just pray about it. So, we formed a little group of six of us that spent six or eight months just praying and listening, and at the end of that time we felt very sure that that he was very actively involved in the nest and was inviting us into that.
Dave Enns / New Ventures Director:
And finally we partner relentlessly. No New Ventures takes us on alone.
We all need partners, partner churches, organization, financial partners.
Wai Fong Chow / Maple Ridge Good News
The first thing in my mind to, you know, to work with a local church.
Dr. Tom Blackaby / Maple Ridge Alliance
I've been praying for some time about our church actually having more inroads into our community, and there's no way we could have reached our Cantonese neighbours on our own. We just had no possibility of that happening.
Dave Enns / New Ventures Director:
Some people think that New movements in the church in Canada should look a certain way or they should follow a certain model. But this hasn't been our experience. New ventures is not a model, and all through the process, the apprenticeships concerning communities and New Ventures and even the churches that are often launched can look very different.
It may be in a different language in a different community group, in a different age group, but I think it is a time where God has just given us great creativity.
God is moving in Canada and New Ventures is here to help equip and resource those who are interested in seeing his kingdom advance in a powerful way.