50 Ways to Engage Local Schools
The Lewis Center for Church Leadership has prepared this list of 50 Ways you can engage your local school effectively. Great ideas for churches looking to reach out to their local schools!
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The Lewis Center for Church Leadership has prepared this list of 50 Ways you can engage your local school effectively. Great ideas for churches looking to reach out to their local schools!
This free 50 Ways resource provides strategies to identify and support new leaders, continue to develop existing leaders, and build and maintain effective ministry teams.
Vital churches provide ways for people of all ages to grow in faith through learning. These 50 Ways can help your congregation build a strong program of Christian education for adults.
Did you know that Safe Church Ministry started out as the Office of Abuse Prevention? Think of the heartache avoided by preventing abuse before it happens. Surely churches belong at the front lines.
“What do Muslims think when they hear the word ‘Messiah'?” We will look at a number of Islamic sources to answer that question.
Last fall the Canadian Aboriginal Ministry Committee (CAMC) invited pastors and churches in Canada to consider together what it means that the land we call Canada has been inhabited for far more than 150 years.
College for Students with Disabilities
What would you do if you saw a child in your church nursery with suspicious looking bruises? Do you know who is a “mandated reporter,” and what it means to fill out a DHS-3200? These are all important things churches must know.
Classis plays a key role in CRC church planting. Here are ten ways you can contribute to a church planting movement.
This article is a very useful tool to analyze current approaches to contextualization, especially those in the context of outreach to Muslims.
This article has suggestions and resources to help your congregation considers having emotional support animals in your church.
What we say or fail to say about mental health concerns in worship settings can be profoundly formative for how Christian communities respond to these challenges.
This article from Indigenous Christian leaders Ray Aldred, Adrian Jacobs, and Terry LeBlanc considers what societal repentance for the evils of residential schools and healing from our colonial history could look like in Canada.
This thought-provoking article by National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald is a call for contextualization of the gospel in North America and offers seven touchstones for this gospel contextualization.
This Lent, we challenge you to engage thoughtfully and prayerfully in advocacy for your neighbors, particularly neighbors who are living in poverty because of various unjust systems.
Silence is no longer an option. In this watershed #MeToo moment, the Church must be ready to respond to sexual abuse. How will it happen in your classis?
CRC Canadian Ministries Director Rev. Dr. Darren Roorda has signed an interfaith statement regarding the new controversial requirements of the Canada Summer Jobs Program grant. Will your church be applying for Canada Summer Job grants this year?
Now is the moment to raise our voices, both in prayer and advocacy, for a Canada where Indigenous children finally have equal opportunities to flourish.
Faith is mysterious. No matter what we do in church or at home, we can’t make faith happen. But, like a farmer, there’s much we can do to till the “soil” that faith grows in.
We scoured every church website across the CRCNA. Here are our 10 favorite websites.
Happy New Year! By now you are almost halfway through the educational year (stop reading and give yourself a hug!). But since there's still work to do, here's a list to help you get your New Year off to a smooth start.
Looking back at Safe Church Ministry in 2017 and looking forward to another year on mission together with Jesus in 2018.
Should it matter to us that the people who seem to have the most to say about certain issues Christians rightly care about do not themselves have any formal biblical-theological training?
A recent article in Christianity Today highlights a few of the reasons why it can be difficult for those who have survived abuse to be in church.
An article I read about churches hiring people with disabilities contained helpful information but their approach emphasized that hiring anyone with a disability is fraught with "landmines." Ouch!