Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

The 4th Annual Online Centering Prayer Summit on January 25-26 offers a sacred space to move beyond personal peace to embrace a shared, universal connection with the Divine and all of creation. Guided by renowned contemplative teachers, including keynote speaker Cynthia Bourgeault, you’ll explore how contemplative prayer not only deepens our relationship with God but also weaves us closer to one another, illuminating our shared journey.

What You'll Experience at the Summit:

Guided Meditations: Cultivate inner stillness and deepen your contemplative presence.

Engaging Talks: Explore the nuances of Centering Prayer and non-dual awareness.

Interactive Q&A Sessions: Address your personal questions & challenges directly with our speakers.

Sacred Silence: Experience moments of silence woven throughout the schedule, creating space for deep listening and presence.

Join James Finley and Kirsten Oates, hosts of the Turning to the Mystics podcast, on a 4-day interior pilgrimage mirroring the journey laid out in the 19th-century Russian mystical text, The Way of a Pilgrim.  

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

The gospels base their stories of Jesus’ nativity on Jewish ideas: Matthew’s Jesus is a new Moses; Luke’s Mary is a new Hannah; John’s “In the beginning was the Word” draws on Jewish theology; the “virgin birth” tradition begins with the Greek translation of Isaiah. How did the Christian Church adapt its Jewish roots, and how can Christians avoid the antisemitic teachings that occur when those roots are forgotten? 

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Tuesday October 15
The United Nations and the Future of People of African Descent with Michael McEachrane

Tuesday October 22
Bold Discipleship: Reflections from the United Church in Saskatchewan with SunDo Hyun, Bernon Lee, Becca Whitlaw

Tuesday October 29
Race Talks from GenZs with Spring water Hester-Meawassige, Emo Yango

Tuesday November 5
Fighting Anti-Palestinian Racism in Canada with a panel of key leaders

Tuesday November 12
Continuing Our Stories: Indigenous Identities in the Christian Church with Leaders from the Anglican Church of Canada and The United Church of Canada

Tuesday November 19
The Texts of Advent: Finding Good News and Avoiding Antisemitism with Amy-Jill Levine

Tuesday November 26
What Will We Sing When We Need to Sing a New Song? with Then Let Us Sing! Committee

FROM LAMENT TO HOPE

Your church has the unique opportunity to be a place of purpose, belonging, and hope for your community.

Blessed Are the Undone: Leading in the Era of Quiet Deconstruction is a two-day event taking place October 4-5, 2024, in Waterloo, ON, Saskatoon, SK, and online. This conference will explore the growing phenomenon of quiet deconstruction within the Canadian church, offering pastors, ministry leaders, academics, artists, and those navigating personal faith questions an opportunity to engage with real-life stories of deconstruction.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Jesus groups in the first and second centuries engaged in extensive experimentation with the boundaries of communal identity. The diversity of these experiments led to conflict, both within groups and between groups and outsiders. We can find evidence of these conflicts preserved within the writings of these early groups, most often in the context of discussions of the status and role of women. Gender was an important tool both in identity experimentation and formation for these groups, and therefore in setting boundaries as well. While later Christianity became fiercely patriarchal, we can still recover the voices of those who challenged conventions of gender in their negotiations of their Jesus group identities. The Acts of Paul and Thecla offers one significant opportunity to hear these voices, and this course will use this little known story to frame our discussions of how communities of the Anointed discovered and developed who they were.

Be inspired by Martha Tatarnic, music graduate, author, and Anglican priest, as she urges us to see these fraught times as an opportunity to examine what we do and why, with real cause for hope. Interact with our top faculty as we continue SICM's unique 50+ year tradition of offering skills development, ministry resources, and spiritual nurture, now in a new, more compact and inexpensive format. Renew and build personal connections with church musicians from across Canada.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Learn from renowned experts and practitioners in the fields of spiritual formation, intergenerational ministry, and ministry to children, youth and families. Gain valuable perspectives, practical tips, and innovative approaches while debunking common myths about young people to make spiritual education engaging and impactful.

The Festival of Homiletics is like summer camp for preachers

During the Festival, you’ll hear from outstanding preachers from diverse backgrounds, traditions, and ministry settings. You’ll participate in passionate worship, dive deep with preaching master classes, and fellowship with preaching colleagues from around the world.

This year, in-person attendance is capped at 1,200 to maintain rigorous safety protocols—but even if you can’t join us in person, you can still participate!

Choose from a free or premium version of the online Festival—or better yet, come to Minneapolis for a celebration of preaching you won’t forget.

What lessons can the European experience teach Canadians about church planting and Christian mission in our changing society? Dr. Stefan Paas will share about his experience as a missiologist and church planter in Amsterdam.

Livestream available

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Unleash new momentum in your ministry. This April, join the experience that delivers ministry leaders a breath of fresh air and an uncommon energy — bound to generate powerful momentum in your ministry. Gather with future-focused children’s and youth ministry leaders for an inspirational and wildly practical three-day event. Unlock insights and connections to maximize your impact and sustain your own health in the year ahead.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

It’s tough being a Christian leader in today’s noisy and polarized world. While social media and the news flood those around you with messages of desperation, political division, and scorn toward “the other side,” you are called to guide your congregation through these turbulent waters. So how can you lead them into mutual understanding and clarity? How can we instill and maintain attitudes of hope and empathy powerful enough to mend the rifts in our communities?

Learn how to apply Backstory Preaching’s foundational sermon prep framework to craft an Easter sermon you believe in and can’t wait to preach— and finish well ahead of Holy Week, the busiest church season of the year.

In this process-- rooted in prayer and practical tools-- you will discover a framework you can rely on week after week to prepare sermons more efficiently and with more joy.

As the church navigates the complexities of post-Christendom Canada, we know that people are seeing the trends in Canada that point to hopeful futures. We invite you to join this first symposium in the new series Conversations in the Canadian Church as we explore these hopeful themes.

This event aims to explore innovative ideas, cutting-edge research, and actionable strategies for the church.

Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:

- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies

…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.

THIS MONTH: Special Guest Co-Host, The Rev. Dr. Brian Fraser - Continuing the conversation around the question: Is a church without a pastor a viable church?

Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.

Through this conference we will see that there are new and innovative ways to be the church as we come TOGETHER to resource, support and learn from one another. We have the chance and responsibility invest into students, to share the message of Jesus, to be a listening ear, to love faithfully, to seek justice, to live out the word of God.

We have 40+ practical workshops, Keynote Speakers (Ebonie Davis, Ho-Ming Tsui, Jason Persuad & Panel of innovative student leaders, special guest appearances including OJ the DJ, award winning worship band (Sanctus Church Worship) with time set apart to respond to the Holy Spirit, to network with others ministry leaders and get access the latest resources for ministry.

Join Dr. John Dominic Crossan and Dr. Tripp Fuller Luther for a Lenten Online Class starting in February! Learn at your own pace, and tune in for incredible live Q&A's with:

Brian Zahnd, founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church

Brian D. McLaren, author, speaker, activist, and public theologian.

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University in North Carolina

Dr. Diana Butler Bass, award-winning author, speaker, preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality.

The Art of Transitional Ministry Part 1 introduces students to intentional transitional ministry leadership. Once called Interim Ministry, The Art of Transitional Ministry Part 1 introduces students to the Arc of Transitional Ministry-- featuring deeper conversations about entering systems, assessing needs, considering history and current context, considering the role of conflict and healthy departing. We start in a place believing all ministry is transitional and that understanding congregational systems theory undergirds the work we do. Our goal is to provide pastors with tools for leading in the midst of transition while providing a supportive and safe learning community for exploration and questioning.

Drawing on his popular Yale course, theologian Miroslav Volf will join us to reflect on what makes for a flourishing life in our times. Together we’ll discuss his insights from the bestselling book Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most.