Forum on Church Planting by Mission Agencies in Canada

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Forum on Church Planting by Mission Agencies in
Canada

• Models Possibilities

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Model OnePlanting to One Denomination

• Member Missions (all with church planting focus
  and non-Pentecostal theology)
• Interact Ministries of Canada
• Interact Ministries
• Indian Life Ministries
• Northern Canada Evangelical Mission
• NAIM Ministries
• Impact North Ministries
• Northern Youth Ministries
• SEND of Alaska
• UIM International
• UIM International CDA
• Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (the
  receiving denomination)

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Model TwoDenominational Neutrality

• Canadian Sunday School Mission
• Ministry to Children e.g. VBS, Sunday School,
  sport camps
• Ministry to Families leading to a worshiping
  community
• New congregation chooses affiliation
• 80 churches birthed

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Model ThreeIndividual Partnerships

• Navigators partner with Mennonite Brethren to
  begin church in Winnipeg
• Navigator Ray Klassen plants, MBs contribute to
  his support account
• (Ray now heads MBs Missions and Church
  Extension department in Manitoba)
• Campus Crusade partners with Southern Baptists in
  Montreal to plant down-town, post-modern,
  bi-lingual youth church.

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Other Possibilities

• AIA Sport Camps offered in context of a
  denominational church planters strategy.
• Missionary returning (for health, deputation or
  education reasons) partners to plant among people
  group with which they are now familiar.
• Mission candidate partners with a denomination to
  plant in Canadian people group to which they will
  be sent.

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Other Possibilities

• Mission agencies could regularly join
  denominational catalyzers in Church Planting
  Canada regional meetings.
• EFC Kingdom Connections partnership development
  training May 15-17, 2001 (Winnipeg)