We are extremely excited to celebrate ‘Undivided Love’ at two in-person book launches with Author, Janet Gear!

Click to save the PDF Book Launch Flyer.

If you are in Vancouver on Tuesday September 13, or Victoria on Thursday September 15, you are warmly invited to Janet Gear’s book launch & author reading!

Navigating Landscapes of Living Faith

a by-line, a spiritual practice, an Invitation

Join Janet Gear to celebrate the release of her refreshing and empowering book, ‘Undivided Love Navigating Landscapes of Living Faith’.

Hear passages read by Janet, engage in discussion, and (re)discover gifts from the Theological Banquet video series - an accessible, inspiring resource that helps us to foster language, identity, and understanding within our multi-dimensional, United Church communities!

 

Your Hosts

Broad View United Church in the Cadboro Bay neighbourhood of Greater Victoria and St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver are each hosting a book launch for ‘Undivided Love’! Join them!

Whether attending on Tuesday September 13 at St. Andrew’s-Wesley or Thursday September 15 at Broad View United, you can expect a comfortable, informal setting with wheel chair access, a reading from by Janet Gear, light refreshments and engaging conversation!

We love these words from Janet’s publisher, Friesen Press:

Undivided Love is a book about faith: how it is expressed and what it communicates. Janet Gear offers readers a sympathetic way to interpret the belief-inspired actions of those around them without assuming homogeneous understandings of God, the church, and our place in the world. Recognizing the pastoral and strategic challenges provoked by conflicting understandings of what the church is for, Gear guides leaders in the artistry of handling shadows and strengths coexisting across five streams of lived faith: evangelical, ecclesial, missional, ecumenical, and spiritual.

Ultimately, Undivided Love empowers congregations to navigate the terrain of theological diversity shared by their community of faith, to nurture its various longings and receive its unique gifts, and to ultimately address the deeper question: What are we called to do?

 

Supporting United Church Author, Janet Gear

If you’re not able to attend one of the in-person book launches and want a copy of ‘Undivided Love’, you can get your hands on Janet’s book at one of the links below:

Signed copies of Janet Gear’s Undivided Love are available now - from LeaderSHIFT!

Get your hands on Janet Gear's book 'Undivided Love' - now available! Plus we're extremely excited to be celebrating this book's launch with two in-person evenings with Janet Gear!

Come to one of our book launch parties - this September 13 in Vancouver and September 15 in Victoria. All are welcome.

“Undivided Love is a book about faith: how it is expressed and what it communicates. Janet Gear offers readers a sympathetic way to interpret the belief-inspired actions of those around them without assuming homogenous understandings of God, the church, and our place in the world. … Ultimately, Undivided Love empowers congregations to navigate the terrain of theological diversity.. nurture various longings … receive its unique gifts, and to ultimately address the deeper question: What are we called to do?”

Friesen Press 2022

Signed Copies are Available from LeaderSHIFT!

Affirm and articulate the lived faith of those in your community; Deepen an appreciation of theological difference within a community of faith; Build capacity for theological interpretation of community life - with the Theological Banquet.

Wondering about the Theological Banquet?

‘Undivided Love’ accompanies the Theological Banquet resources that Janet has developed for United Church congregations. The Theological Banquet is an engaging workshop series that LeaderSHIFT is extremely proud to have been supporting for over 10 years.

The materials offered in the Theological Banquet provides a language and a lens for us to talk about the various ways our faith is lived out in our churches, lives, and the world. Bring the Theological Banquet to your community of faith here.

Special pre-launch open house at Feast & Fallow Cafe - this coming Friday, Aug 19!

Enjoy this late Tuesday afternoon invitation to Feast & Fallow Cafe's special pre-launch open house!

VIP Day for Pacific Mountain Region - members, clergy, staff and community
Special pre-launch open house
Friday August 19, 2022
8am 'till 2:30pm
305 West 41st Ave, Vancouver BC

A new community within LeaderSHIFT's Church Planting network, Feast & Fallow Cafe is a social enterprise that's connecting people to their food and to each other. Co-located with Oakridge United Church, Feast & Fallow Cafe bakes bread, serves coffee, educates, and honours food security as a Christian value - and they want us all to come celebrate with their opening!

"Feast and Fallow is a Christian social enterprise. At the core of the historical Christian witness, is the celebration of the earth, human connection and community, and the sharing of food (communion is one such example). In recognition of this core Christian value and practice, some congregations are now choosing to focus on the role that food plays as both a humanizing and isolation reducing mechanism in our society. However, the issues around food are larger and transcend the social sphere. Take for instance how our food systems are exploited and extended in unsustainable ways. Many Christians, therefore, also share in the conviction that the Christian Church should raise its voice in advocacy for regenerative, sustainable, organic, holistic, and just food systems." - FeastAndFallow.ca/our-vision