On Saturday, March 14 sixty-four people from across the Diocese of Ontario took part in a Vision Day held at Christ Church, Cataraqui in Kingston.  The event, which was co-sponsored by the Diocese of Ontario’s Evangelism Committee and Fresh Expressions Canada, was the largest of its kind in Canada to date.
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The Institute of Evangelism and Fresh Expressions Canada are now offering streaming audio and podcasts of keynote speakers from past events.  Note that audio from the 2009 Vital Church Planting Conference is not yet available.
 
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http://www.freshexpressions.ca/
The official web site for Fresh Expressions in Canada was launched at the Vital Church Planting Conference, on February 18th at St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto. Fresh Expressions Canada (FXca) seeks to encourage the development of fresh expressions of church alongside more traditional expressions, with the aim of seeing a more mission-shaped church take [...]

I’m delighted we’re having the Vision Day, and I encourage folks to come and listen and hear, because what Fresh Expressions does, is it reaches out to those who are unchurched and dechurched, and it reaches out to them where they are.

I am pleased to endorse “Fresh Expressions Canada”. It is an initiative in keeping with our Church’s vision of “growing in membership, faith and service in God’s world”.

It is a creative style of evangelism, drawing people into a relationship with Jesus Christ. It will speak to many who are looking for a fresh expression of our life together in Christ. It represents an imaginative approach to strengthening the witness of a local Christian community.

I encourage you to learn more about this initiative by exploring the newly formed website.

The following announcement appears in the January 2009 edition of the Anglican Messenger, (the newspaper of the dioceses of Athabasca and Edmonton) under the heading “Notes from the Bishop”, “The Rev. Thomas Brauer is appointed to Church Planting and Fresh Expressions, and Honorary Assistant at Holy Trinity,Edmonton, effective January 6, 2009.”
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Church Planter and Filmmaker Joe Manafo’s 43-minute documentary on new and evolving forms of church in Canada, One Size Fits All? has just been released on DVD and is available for sale at http://www.onesizefitsall.ca/.  Manafo visits fresh expressions of church across Canada, including Emerge and St. Benedict’s Table, Anglican fresh expressions of church in Montreal [...]

 mixed economy is the new annual journal from Fresh Expressions in England which takes a serious look at what it means to have new forms of church living alongside more conventional congregations.
Included in this first edition: news of the second phase of the Fresh Expressions initiative, the Archbishop of Canterbury asks, ‘is it really church?’; how [...]