Videos on this page:
Rev. Dr. Dale Woods: “Six Stages of Faith” – experiences of faith throughout life.
Kristy Short of Alpha Canada: “Engaging evangelism in a COVID World”.
Rev. Dr. Christine O’Reilly: “Salt and Light” – church court strategies post-Remits.
Rev. Doug Cameron and Rev. Cathi Cameron: “Grieving to live” – engaging loss to regain vitality.
Rev. Dr. Esther Acolatse: “Recovering the joy – rekindling the hope”.
Shane Davis and Jon Dykeman: “Youth/young adult ministry – how to engage and encourage.”
Cory McKenna of The Cross Current: “How do we walk as followers of Christ in an increasingly secular world?”
On November 13, 2021, approximately 100 people participated in our day of encouragement and renewal. This in itself was encouraging! It was a day of worship, prayer, teaching, and discussion organized in partnership with Vaughan Community Church (VCC), an Eastern Han-Ca congregation.
Introduction by Rev. Andy Cornell – begins 38 seconds in
Worship led by Ken Michell – begins 9:42 minutes in
Greetings from Rev. Dr. Dan Scott, Moderator of the PCC – begins 34:24 minutes in
Keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. Dale Woods, Presbyter of Vision and Mission for the Presbytery of Westminster and former principal of Presbyterian College Montreal. His presentation, “Six Stages of Faith,” was an exploration of personal levels or experiences of faith throughout life, augmented by video clips, music, and small-group discussion. The following video begins with Dr. Woods’ address, 42:37 minutes in.
Six breakout workshops – The six videos are presented on their own following the Main Session Video below.
We were similarly blessed with six gifted workshop leaders.
Kristy Short of Alpha Canada: “Engaging evangelism in a COVID World, which has been turned upside down.”
Rev. Dr. Christine O’Reilly: “Salt and Light – church court strategies post-Remits “B” and “C” – pragmatic ways to uphold the Scriptures and the Book of Forms.”
Rev. Doug Cameron and Rev. Cathi Cameron: “Grieving to live – many of us need to engage the loss in order to regain vitality to minister.”
Rev. Dr. Esther Acolatse, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Intercultural Studies, Knox College, Toronto, Ontario: “Recovering the joy – many of us are feeling beaten down, so how do we rekindle the hope?”
Youth pastors Shane Davis from Lakeshore St. Andrew’s, Windsor, Ontario, and Jon Dykeman from St. Andrew’s, Moncton, New Brunswick – “Youth/young adult ministry – how to engage and encourage.”
Cory McKenna of The Cross Current: “Whither our culture – how do we walk as followers of Christ in an increasingly secular world?”
Joo Hyun Chung, of Vaughan Community Church, and Rev. Jin-sook Khang, Associate Pastor at VCC, were busy behind the scenes.
Rev. John Park, a member of the RF board, was our tech host
Here’s some participant feedback:
“The conference was excellent. I enjoyed it all and was blessed.”
“The presentations were excellent, needed and on target.”
“Opening worship a good start to the day. Dale: really inspired by this and look forward to reviewing his slides. Was assigned to Christine O’Reilly’s workshop and found her insights very helpful.”
“Thanks so much to you, the organizing team, and Vaughan Community Church for a wonderful day of encouragement yesterday. It was good to gather together with other PCC folk on the more traditional side of the denomination, to know that we are not alone in the struggle within our denomination.”
“The enthusiasm of Kristy Short was contagious!
“Whither our Culture workshop was a very good presentation in that it helped open our eyes to the challenges of sharing the gospel in our culture today.”
“It was wonderful. The entire event was excellent in every way. I feel encouraged and strengthened. Thank you!”
“This was a great day. Yes do this again.”
“All portions of the opening worship were inspiring. It was good to have the moderator deliver remarks and the laying of hands and prayer for him were most appropriate.”
“Really liked the leader for the worship – excellent song choices – really felt drawn into meaningful worship – thank you so much! Should we do something like this again? Definitely – the coast to coast attendance is very good.”