When I was in my parish, I would sometimes look at the geography and say, “If I went and started a congregation in that locality, a number of Anglicans who live there and who want to come to church can actually be served better from there.” Most people are not readily mobile and cannot afford [...]

Prior to my trip to Kenya, I was told, “Africa will always be a part of you.” Only now do I realize how true this is.  
I was part of a team of three sent to minister in the rural diocese of Bungoma. Our team conducted four seminars over a period of two weeks, teaching [...]

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The movie Pay it Forward introduced the world to the idea that a good deed should be “paid forward” and not “paid back.” This video, from the Primate’s Evangelism Commission, uses the same [...]

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One thing a mission can provide is a new vision of ministry and how it can be carried on. An inner city mission in Edmonton sparked innovations that continue today.

A team of students from Wycliffe College spent an extended weekend [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

You are an unchurched person. You believe in God, but you have little time for organised religion. If pressed, you would say you are a spiritual person, but church? Well, thanks, but no thanks.
What will get you inside the church? [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

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I am very impressed by what I read of the development of the congregation at Christ Church, Cataraqui. As I read the interview with Ed Dallow, I believe there are several lessons to be [...]

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Our student son said to us recently, “By the way, I was talking to some street kids in Toronto the other day, and I gave them our phone number in case they needed it. I hope that’s OK?” So far [...]

This Article is from the Spring 1999 edition of good idea!, also available here in a fully formatted PDF file.

Numbers are not everything, but when they change dramatically, it is worth asking what is going on. In the past three and a half years, Christ Church, Cataraqui, has grown from 100 family units on the parish list and an [...]