This year’s Vital Church Planting conference held in Toronto in early February about missional listening and making disciples was an exciting event. Registration had to be cut off a week beforehand because capacity had been reached at 173, of whom about 60% had not attended before. This event appears to be still gaining momentum after six annual conferences in Toronto and two in Edmonton.
Two articles appearing in the online Anglican Journal tell of some of the highlights:
By Diana Swift
Staff writer
At the 2012 Vital Church Planting conference in Toronto, the U.K.’s Rev. David Male imagined the future by suggesting that all those committed to expanding the mission-shaped church should “keep in the slipstream of God.” read more
By Diana Swift Staff writer
If you would be fishers of men, then first you must be dredgers of data—demographic data. That was the message sent by the Rev. Ryan Sim in a workshop on the importance of missional listening at The Missional Roadmap, the recent Vital Church Planting conference in Toronto. Read more
Judith Purdell-Lewis joined the Institute as a part-time Administrative Assistant to the Director in September 2008. She lives in Hamilton and attends the Church of St. John the Evangelist. Click here to read all articles by Judith Purdell-Lewis
