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Rural Ministry Conference 2024
Oct
25
to Oct 27

Rural Ministry Conference 2024

  • LeaderSHIFT United Church of Canada (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Held In-Person in Fort Macleod AB at Trinity United Church

Rev. Bronwyn Corlett, Rural and New Ministries Coordinator, The United Church of Canada ~ Keynote Presenter

With workshops offering skills specifically designed for a rural context, including:

  • Becoming Affirming – with Affirming Connections

  • First Third Ministry – with Chris Mah Poy and Pamela Evans

  • Intercultural Ministry – with Western Intercultural Ministry Network

  • Community Partnerships – with Joel Den Haan

  • And More!

A LeaderSHIFT & Chinook Winds Regional Council Partnership

Registration via Chinook Winds Pacific Mountain Amilia/SmartRec platform.

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Anti-Racism Work & Action Leadershift Conference 2024
Apr
4
to Apr 6

Anti-Racism Work & Action Leadershift Conference 2024

  • Vancouver School of Theology (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A powerful offering in partnership with with LeaderSHIFT, the Pacific Mountain Region Council Justice Ministry Network, and Vancouver School of Theology.

Held at the Epiphany Chapel, on the Vancouver School of Theology UBC campus, empower yourself to engage key learnings, work, and action in a Christian community of other children and family ministry leaders who are working for an anti-racist church.

IN-PERSON ONLY

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The Online Evolving Faith Conference
Oct
16
9:00 a.m.09:00

The Online Evolving Faith Conference

The Evolving Faith Group Integration Experience for ministry personnel

be encouraged, inspired and renewed.

October 16, 2023
Online Only

After joining the Evolving Faith Online Community from Oct 13-14, 2023, you’ll join the LeaderSHIFT/ Ministry Personnel Support Team Integration Zoom on Monday Oct 16, 2023, from the comfort of your favourite chair.

Details & Registration are on the The Group Travel & Integration Experience - Evolving Faith Conference info page.

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The Group Travel Experience to Evolving Faith Conference
Oct
13
to Oct 16

The Group Travel Experience to Evolving Faith Conference

  • Minneapolis Convention Centre (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

A group experience for ministry personnel to be encouraged, inspired and renewed.

October 13-16, 2023
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

The Group Travel Experience to Evolving Faith Conference

Registration fee is paid for by LeaderSHIFT. Hotel subsidy and travel subsidy is offered!

The Evolving Faith Conference is featuring Sarah Bessey, Wil Gafney, Mihee Kim-Kort, Barbara Brown Taylor, Randy Woodley, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and our own Moderator, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne (and more!). Main Conference Website: Evolving Faith: Evolving Faith 2023.

Group Travel Experience Details & Registration are on the The Group Experience - Evolving Faith Conference info page.

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Rural Ministry Conference ~ 2023
Sep
29
to Oct 1

Rural Ministry Conference ~ 2023

  • High River AB Canada (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
 

RURAL HOSPITALITY, INSPIRING THEME SESSIONS, AND PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS

September 29-October 1, 2023
High River AB

Rural Ministry Conference 2023

A partnership with Chinook Winds Regional Council, held at High River United Church.

Where and how is the Holy Spirit breaking into our lives, like at that first Pentecost? And where and how is that same Spirit calling us to break out (of our buildings, our assumptions, our comfort, our ways of doing things) to be the church in our communities in a new way?

Workshop, Facilitator, and Conference Details & Registration:

Go to the Rural Ministry Conference info page.

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Resurrect 2023
May
4
to May 6

Resurrect 2023

  • AbbeyChurch / FirstMetropolitan United (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Restoration and Inspiration

  • A learning Party – fun, rest, inspiration, diverse worship.

  • Focusing on newer communities & movements on “the edge of the inside of the church”

  • Centering of BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ leaders and communities.

  • Intergenerational / children’s / youth component.

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Bold Witness, Relentless Grace Conference with Keynote, Sarah Bessey
Nov
4
to Nov 6

Bold Witness, Relentless Grace Conference with Keynote, Sarah Bessey

  • Symons Valley United Church (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Looking for a Satellite Conference Location? Hosts and Sites are listed here!

The Satellite Conference Experience

  • Hosted by communities of faith in church-spaces, by individuals in their living room, and all possibilities in between

  • LIVE-STREAMS Calgary conference hours (Mountain Time) to your in-person party

  • Fuels powerful reflection and connections with the conference theme

  • Captures the energy and inspiration radiating from the Symons Valley stage

  • Good fun, in the good company of other Seekers, Wanderers and Questioners!

Our Satellite Conferences live-stream the entire BWRG conference to multiple in-person gatherings outside of the Southern Alberta area. Imagine a book study, pub theology, or congregational pot luck — a Satellite Conference gathers folks to break bread, share time and story, and engage Christian practices together.

Bold Witness, Relentless Grace

A United Church Conference in Calgary AB

WITH SARAH BESSEY

NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY, GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLING AUTHOR, AND … FROM THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES

BoldWitness.ca

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2022 Festival of Biblical Telling "In the beginning the Word: The Wisdom and Witness of Biblical Telling"
Apr
22
to Apr 24

2022 Festival of Biblical Telling "In the beginning the Word: The Wisdom and Witness of Biblical Telling"

THIS APRIL 22-24, 2022, AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE GATHERING


And the Word was a way in.
A conversation.
A comfort, a wrestle, a proclamation,
a STORY.


Our 2022 Festival of Biblical Telling is an opportunity for people who love the Word to come together - to listen and tell, to hone their skills at sharing that Word aloud. By Heart.

Co-Sponsored by Network of Biblical Storytellers CANADA and LeaderShift

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This Changes Everything: The Peacebuilding Power of Scripture Telling
Apr
9
to Apr 11

This Changes Everything: The Peacebuilding Power of Scripture Telling

  • Google Calendar ICS

Festival of Biblical Storytelling

Celebrating and practising the transformative art and discipline of telling Christian scripture by heart.

This Changes Everything: The Peacebuilding Power of Scripture Telling
Join Dr Tom Boomershine, acclaimed speaker, author and founder of the Biblical Storytelling Movement, and other workshop leaders from across Canada for theme presentations, worship & praise, workshops for newcomers, workshops for experienced tellers, and the Epic Telling of Mark (this is sooooooooo cool). LeaderShift is thrilled to be sponsoring this event with the Network of Biblical Storytellers Canada.The cost is $50 per person (or $30 if you register before March 15). A group rate of $25/ person when coming with 5 or more is available across the registration window (no date restrictions).

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HOLY SHIFT! Size-mic Upgrade Conference
Oct
4
to Oct 6

HOLY SHIFT! Size-mic Upgrade Conference

  • Kamloops United Church (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For decades our churches and ministries have been bumping up against the messages ‘size matters’, ‘bigger is better’, ‘grow to survive’ while evaluating and discerning our successes and struggles… But what if those aren’t the messages God wants us – congregants, leaders, ministers, staff, youth, elders, friends – to pay attention to? When we turn to scripture and sacred story, God’s messaging isn’t about numbers or size – it’s that we are enough, just as we are. The Holy Shift Size-mic Upgrade Conference will live, work and play with this affirmation – aiming to shake the rhetoric up, discovering strengths and harnessing power as small and medium-sized communities of faith.

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