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.

• Registration & Information at FirstThirdMinistry.ca

IN-PERSON ONLY

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.

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.

Purchase Tickets Here: Eventbrite - Bold Witness, Relentless Grace

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

• Event Logistics, Details and Registration are here: Festival of Biblical Telling 2022

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

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).