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Conference provides redemptive response to troubling need
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Mike Haley, director of gender issues for Focus on the Family’s Public Policy division, shared his dynamic testimony about leaving a homosexual lifestyle during Focus on the Family’s recent Love Won Out conference in Winnipeg. (Photo’s Courtesy Glenn M. Hudson)
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WINNIPEG, MB—Love Won Out conferences represent a bold foray by Focus on the Family into a debate that has come to occupy much of centre stage within western culture. It’s the debate about normalizing homosexual lifestyles and whether change is possible for persons who want to leave lives as gays or lesbians.
The Love Won Out conference at Calvary Temple in Winnipeg May 14, sponsored by Focus on the Family Canada, drew an attendance of about 400, and argued that homosexuality is both preventable and treatable. Across the street from the church as many as a hundred protesters loudly and often angrily decried the conference and argued otherwise, using bullhorns and epithets.
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“We established that we needed to be a purpose driven church rather than a program driven church.”
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Membership covenant draws questions
STONEY CREEK, ON—A local Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) church has learned that being purpose driven can drive members away.
Stoney Creek Alliance Church senior pastor Rick Wells was hired almost two years ago, and says he recognized even before came on staff that “an entire restructuring of the church needed to take place.”
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“...a highly interactive exchange of ideas and insights for transforming children into spiritual champions.”
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Children’s forum spurs plans for national discussion
TORONTO, ON—Significant strides were made toward advancing the cause of children’s ministries in Canada, as a result of a two-day event held in Toronto last month.
The 4-14 Forum, sponsored by Awana Clubs Canada, was held May 17 and 18 at the Days Inn and Conference Centre.
Intended to be “a highly interactive exchange of ideas and insights for transforming children into spiritual champions,” the 4-14 Forum took its name from a theoretical window of opportunity that exists “between the ages of four and 14 to reach children when they are most open to the gospel,” according to conference documents.
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Mohawk Bible translation slated for completion by 2010
Joel Coppieters
MONTREAL, QC—The Canadian Bible Society’s (CBS) Montreal District announced at its annual general meeting that it had earmarked $50,000 in next year’s budget to speed up the completion of the Bible in the Mohawk language.
“Many of the New Testament books had been translated at the end of the last century,” explains Mavis Etienne who leads this translation project for the CBS, “But then things had come to a standstill for a long time.
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Clitheroe joins Prison Fellowship Canada
TORONTO, ON—Eleanor Clitheroe, former CEO and president of Ontario’s Hydro One and past chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, is the new executive director for Prison Fellowship Canada (PFC).
Jack Kiervin, PFC board chairman, announced Clitheroe’s appointment in a recent letter to ministry supporters, saying the move came on the heels of “a thorough search over the past few months.”
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Revolutionary changes aid world Christian growth
Frank Stirk
VANCOUVER, BC—Canada is not immune to the historic developments that are taking the Christian gospel to every corner of the globe, says UK-based missiologist, theologian and author Martin Robinson.
“We’re living in amazing times,” he told a two-day seminar last month in Vancouver. “We no longer have to be apologetic because of this revolution that’s going in world Christianity—and which is coming to a storefront near you. It’s a great opportunity.” get the full story>
