3rd Roundtable on Collaborating for City Transformation

FROM GOOD INTENTIONS TO EFFECTIVE OUTCOMES

a Canadian example of effective congregational partnerships

Co-sponsored by

Basel Hakka Lutheran Church,City Gate Leadership Forum,Faith Fellowship Baptist Church,First Baptist Church (Vancouver),Grandview Calvary Baptist Church,Missions Fest,Urban Coalition,Vancouver Eastside Vineyard Church,West Coast Christian Fellowship

Friday,April 23^rd 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Tenth Avenue Church,11 West 10^th Ave,Vancouver

Presentation

Dave Witt,Team Leader,True City

Andrew Zantingh,Pastor,First Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton

Q &A and Discussion

moderated by Jonathan Bird,City Gate Leadership Forum

At our last Roundtable we focused on how to foster collaboration within the Christian community as a whole. This time we’re looking specifically at how congregations can partner deeply and well.

True City (www.truecity.ca) is a growing group of churches in the Hamilton area which began working together in 2004 for the good of their City. They are churches committed to

• authentic involvement in their own neighbourhoods and in the City as a whole

• real cooperation with other churches on specific projects which express their shared calling to be a blessing to Hamilton.

Discover

• What led these churches to covenant together “for the shalom of the city”

• What enables missional unity in the midst of denominational diversity

• How focus teams drawn from different churches are creating resources and opportunities for specific areas of ministry,from church planting to the arts to refugees

• How True City churches are beginning to engage the nonprofit,business,and government sectors in Hamilton

• How congregations have been blessed as they bless their neighbours and each other

Jonathan Bird,Executive Director,City Gate Leadership Forum

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FROM GOOD INTENTIONS TO EFFECTIVE OUTCOMES