FEATURED PLANTERS & STORIES
Shahid & Maroofa Kamal
Shahid & Maroofa Kamal are featured in this year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions. Video & written resources help tell their story as they plant South Asian Community Church in Metro Vancouver, BC.
Planter Story:
No Retirement
Planter Story: No Retirement is an interview with Francisco Aular from Iglesia Bautista Emanuel Calgary in Calgary, AB.
Missionary Profiles
Our Missionary Profiles page allows you to search for church planters and missionaries in any of our provinces and/or Send Cities.
FOR THE PLANTER
5 Questions to consider before you plant a church
By Garth Leno (Windsor, ON)
I have watched church plants and church planting families fold too soon. We need to pay better attention on the front end before we plant.
Here are five questions to consider before you plant your church.
The Church Planter’s Manual for Engaging Your Neighbour
By Matt Hess (Pickering, ON)
They found a lot of polite ways to say “no” to us over the years. Kids’ birthday parties, backyard BBQs and other social interactions with our neighbours were always such a great time. But no matter how close our friendship developed over the years, our friends never quite made it to one of our church services—and it wasn’t due to lack of invitation.
Sound familiar? Discover more!
FOR THE CHURCH
Five Ways to Generate Vision and Passion for Church Planting
By Garth Leno (Windsor, ON)
Garth and his wife are church planters in Windsor, Ontario — directly across the river from Detroit — and their church is part of Send Network.
Garth shares five maxims he has gleaned along the way in his church planting journey.
Three Circles Evangelism Kit
The 3 Circles Evangelism Kit is designed to assist pastors in leading a multi-week evangelism emphasis for their church. The kit includes a trainer guide and a trainee guide for small group discussion, a pack of Living on Mission gospel tracts, a flash drive loaded with an overview for the pastor, sermon resources, videos, and more.
Video Podcast: Church Planting in the Most Diverse City in the World podcast is a dialogue between Dhati Lewis and Kesavan Balasingham about the historical ethnic tensions in Canada and how Fellowship Rouge Park (Scarborough, ON) has continued to make disciples in a multi-ethnic city and church.
Series: Undivided: More Than A Hashtag invites church leaders and their congregations into the living room for candid, gracious, biblical conversations about race.