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“I’m a leader, therefore I need to learn how to be a better one.” A young pastor taking on a senior pastor role, Jason Dyck turned to L2L and found…

Young adults are “hungry for investment and shaping,” says Leaders Collective director Robyn Serez. “It’s a beautiful season of life to welcome people into some holy discipline and mission mindset.”…

After interacting with provincial conference ministers, professors from MB Biblical Seminary and Columbia Bible College and leaders from CCMBC ministries like L2L and the C2C Network over June 14–16, 2016, Pastors Credentialing Orientation graduates received communion and prayers of blessing and commissioning.

Oxygen for ministry A collegial spirit permeated Gathering 2016, the biennial convention of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches in Toronto July 6–9, 2016, where the 136 delegates earnestly…

“To create independence, not codependence – as we’re trying to do at Hannah House – coaching is a tool that helps young mothers self-evaluate, with someone to hold them accountable,”…

In 1996, Christian A. Schwarz (Natural Church Development) identified eight quality control characteristics of growing churches (e.g., empowering leadership, gift-oriented ministry, passionate spirituality).

Results of the 2015 CCMBC pastoral survey It seems like only yesterday when the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches initiated a nationwide pastoral trends survey (see MB Herald Vol.…

In response to The Future of our Pastors As a ministry of CCMBC, L2L is committed to walking with existing and potential pastors through times of discernment, tenure and transition…

Change can begin the moment we ask a question. Jesus was a master in the use of questions. In the Gospels, he often asks people, “What do you want?” It…

Pete’s story By the time I turned 45, I felt like I was driving with cruise-control. My marriage was stable, my church appreciated my leadership as associate pastor. I wasn’t…

The Board of Faith and Life’s “Making our weddings Christian” pamphlet goes into every premarital counselling packet at College Drive Community Church, Lethbridge, Alta. “It challenges a couple to see their wedding as God-centred,” says pastor Brent Miller.

Ron Toews “Coach training has given me a practical road map for conversations with others to help them discern where God is at work in, through and around them.” This…

“We’ve lost our Christian bookstores, and it was getting hard to view good Bible study resources,” says Fran Browne, SunWest Christian Fellowship, Calgary, executive assistant. Right Now Media, the “Netflix for the church,” filled the gap for SunWest.

CCMBC pastoral trends survey 2015 In November 2006, Stephen Harper was less than a year into his first term as prime minister, Gaddafi was still Libya’s long-standing revolutionary leader, and…