Last year while I was running an errand, I drove by a church on 20th Street and noticed that it was surrounded by chain link fence in all directions. The outside of the church was a mess and I assumed that they were renovating as the outside of the building needed repair. Weeks later I [...]
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The Church in an Age of Scarcity
A couple of weeks ago Jason Evans started to post about the recession and the church which started me thinking as I was reading Howard Kunstler’s excellent book, The Long Emergency (Wikipedia summary – Full text available on at Google Books) for about the third time. If you haven’t read it, you need to. I [...]
The Dusty Cover Used Bookstore
Jamie Arpin-Ricci and YWAM Winnipeg are launching The Dusty Cover Used Bookstore. The Dusty Cover is a non-profit used bookstore started in October 2007 in Winnipeg’s historic West End neighbourhood and is dedicated to serving and investing into our community. In addition to being a good source of used books at great prices, our comfortable [...]
Ecclessial Mercenaries
Soon after the Church of the Exiles website went live, I started to get some e-mails in asking me who was funding our little church plant. I think everyone assumed that either Resonate or the Free Methodist Church in Canada (through the Life Cycle Project) was funding it. They were shocked to find out that [...]
Resonate Greenhouse :: Peterborough
A Resonate Greenhouse has been started in Peterborough as well. If you are a church planter or thinking about planting in the wonderful city of Peterborough (home of the Peterborough Petes, Third Space, probably the most effective YFC chapter in the world and one impressive used book district), check out the weblog, and subscribe to the [...]
Pocket Sized Films
I have mentioned this before but Resonate‘s Dave Blondel (who is also a church planter at Third Space) is an excellent film maker. Him and others are producing and directing films over at Pocket Sized Films. As they say, “We make films for the average working man.” Technorati Tags : film, pocket+sized+films, Dave+Blondel
Third Space (s)
I made my last post from a church planting network meeting in the basement of Free Methodist mecca in Mississauga (Flickr photos are here). After the meeting we spent some time in Jared’s office where Dave Blondel spent some time reading the Free Methodist directory looking at pictures of other pastors with beards. His goal [...]
