Summer 2019

Our summer has been a busy one!  Here are some Support-Raising, Ministry, & Family Highlights since our last update:

We have officially reached just over 20% of our fundraising goal! :)  We're not at 50% at this point like we had hoped but we've also been coming to terms with the complexity of support raising WHILE in ministry, and trying to do most of it remotely (versus on the road & in-person). However Jesus is faithful and we haven't run out of runway quite yet on our financial situation. It's worked out for me to pick up about 10 hours a week of customer service work to supplement our income (which is great!) which has reduced my volunteer hours at the church for the time being.

We're trying to hold off on stepping onto the church payroll until we're funded for at least 3 days a week, a goal we think is achievable before the end of the year.

On an exciting note, I'm in the final stages of self-publishing a book on Amazon about the modern church planting movement in Quebec:

Its publication should help expand our reach in terms of ministry partners. We'll be initiating a fresh round of support raising efforts in tandem with its release next month. It will be available in both ebook for Kindle and in print.

Interested in joining our support team? Tap here!

In additional to preaching and pastoral care work, some of the more "administrative" projects I've been working on over this summer to support our pastors, staff, and leaders:

- New membership for church leaders

- Amendments to our church bylaws

- Planning our annual Church Leadership Retreat

- Restructuring of our leadership equipping meetings & coaching schedule

- Orientation / Training for our City Group Leaders

- New downtown City Group leader training

- Codification of our Provincial, Regional, and Local Vision, Mission, Strategies, & Objectives

- Migration of our historical policy documents to the new shared staff Google Drive

- Online filing system for all church documents

- Updating our church database 

- Updating our various websites

- Training church staff on new digital filing system

- Taking on some new payroll & HR work

- Crafting the 2020 budget

- Preparations for the annual meetings of the board, members, and directors

You get the idea. Running a church of this size is a lot of work, especially as we deal with rapid growth, finding and training new leaders, new staff, new members, etc. We have wonderful challenges and opportunities!

Catch my latest sermon by tapping here.  (EN in the above logo stands for 'English', as we also have French sermon podcast.)

Earlier we enjoyed some family time with Severine's mom at a Lakehouse:

And we're currently camping this week with friends & family, enjoying some final sunshine and rest before the intensity of the Fall:

That's it for now, watch for our next update and the launch of the book!

Thank you again for your prayers & support,

Brian & Severine