Upcoming events.
Moral Injury Certificate Program – Fall 2026
Develop a deeper understanding of moral injury, moral distress, and approaches to care through this 10-week online certificate program focused on peer support, collective learning, and strategies for moral repair and resilience.
Spirals of Love and Healing: Empathy, Re-stor(y)-ing, Re-connecting, Transforming
This course will explore the journey of personal healing as an interactive, inter-relational dance of trust and attunement. The therapeutic dance is a four-stage spiralling process: Letting-in (developing trust and safety), Letting-go (owning and visiting trauma and pain), Letting-out (releasing, rebirthing), and Letting-transform (re-integrating, re-connecting). In the process a sacred healing space of love opens up with its own unique rhythm and energy where love engages, heals and transforms.
Keeping Faith Under Dictators: Lessons from 20th Century Europe
It’s nothing new — church members giving their support to authoritarian leaders, nationalist movements, and attacks against minority groups. The same pattern we see today runs through the history of 20th-century Europe. Why were so many Christians drawn to nationalism, racism, and tyranny, and how did other Christians express their opposition? This course explores the dynamics of resistance and complicity in these historical episodes, looking at the responses of ministers, artists, and intellectuals. By investigating their search for certainty, solace, and wisdom, we will learn how Christians living in oppressive states can gain new understandings of the church, morality, and faith.
Faith@Home: Family, Formation, and Fun
This webinar explores the connection between the role of the family in faith formation and creative teaching and learning experiences that families can enjoy together.
(Re)Learning to Listen - Webinar
(Re)Learning to Listen will take us through the basics of Listening with intention. Join us as we explore together the benefits of supporting by listening, what it is and what it isn’t, and the key skills to effectively listening. Likely many of us do a lot of listening in our lives - whether to friends, family, colleagues, or community members. This training is intended to help us come back to basics and refresh our skills so that we can listen more intentionally and more effectively.
Catching The Spark Series
Catching the Spark is a four-week series that explores engaging, interactive ways of reading the Bible. Together, we'll slow down, ask good questions, pay attention to the details of the text, and discover how context, culture, and literary artistry can deepen our understanding of Scripture.
Sacrament Elder Course 2026
This program is designed for Ruling Elders in Presbyterian congregations without clergy who wish to be approved by Presbytery to administer the Sacraments.
The Character of Change | 2026 MacDonald Lectureship
Change has a character, and it shapes ours. It reveals what we value, what we trust, and the kind of people and communities we are becoming.
Drawing on perspectives from leadership, education, community, and Christian faith, the 2026 MacDonald Lectureship invites a public conversation about how we live and lead through change, and what that change is making of us.
This free gathering is open to church leaders, students, educators, professionals, congregants, and members of the wider community. Lunch is provided.
Dispute Resolution
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
Leading the Church Through Times of Conflict
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
A Theology of Particularity
A lecture and conversation about discerning the body, the unruliness of flesh, and the stories our bodies carry.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
What Does the Bible Say About…? Jesus’ Miracles
What Does the Bible Say About…? is a new series of short discussions on different topics of interest for today’s church. The first in the series is Jesus’ Miracles, which explores the remarkable activities of Jesus as reported in the four gospels, with attention to the cultural context and impact of Jesus’ actions. The webinar will allow for Q & A. A study sheet will be available following the webinar.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
Four Things Every Presbyterian Should Know about Residential Schools and Colonization
Learn about the effects of colonization and residential schools and the PCC’s ongoing work to support reconciliation and reparation.
Becoming Intercultural: A 9-Week Online Course
During the course, participants will develop their intercultural awareness and learn about unconscious bias and power dynamics as they work their way through the theology and biblical foundations needed to become intercultural. Participants will also engage with real-life practice scenarios and intercultural tools. This self-paced course includes 3 live group meetings and a facilitator to guide everyone.
NORTH AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ECUMENISTS 2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The North American Academy of Ecumenists 2026 Annual Conference (Sept. 25–27, Princeton, NJ)
Forming Churches that are Spiritually Alive in the Neighbourhood
A one-year program developed to educate, empower and equip church leaders and congregations.
Rooted in Hope: Hope and Resilience – Lived in Community
Join Ruth Harvey, Leader of the Iona Community, for an evening exploring hope, resilience, and how Christian community can help us live faithfully in a complex and divided world. Attend in person in Guelph or watch the livestream online.
Rooted In Hope with Ruth Harvey
Drawing on her experience of a life lived in Christian community, Ruth will help us gently to explore the fractures facing our world today. We will dig deep into Scripture and other sources of wisdom, including rich resources from the world of conflict transformation, to reveal hope beyond optimism. And we will look at models of intentional community to learn from one another about how to live well now for the good of all.
Jesus, Justice, and Your Neighbour
This online conference explores Jesus, justice, and neighbour-love through more than 15 hours of teaching, conversation, and panel discussion. Speakers will engage topics including war, immigration, incarceration, race, gender, poverty, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and restorative justice.
Understanding Conflict Foundations
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Church Mental Health Summit
A three-day online summit equipping pastors, care teams, and ministry leaders with practical tools for mental health, trauma care, spiritual formation, and sustainable ministry leadership.
What does the bible say about - Satan and the Devil?
What Does the Bible Say About. . .? is a new online series of short discussions on different topics of interest for today’s church. The second in the series is “Satan and the Devil” which explores the views of the person and work of Satan/the devil across the Hebrew Bible and through the New Testament writings. The webinar will allow for Q & A and a study sheet for each topic will be posted.
Intentional Intergenerational Preaching, Teaching and Worship Symposium
What does it look like when every generation belongs, participates, and grows together in the life of the church?
Move beyond simply putting different generations in the same room and explore the foundations, frameworks, and practical strategies that make intergenerational ministry meaningful and transformative.
Come ready to learn, collaborate, experiment, and leave with ideas you can put into practice in your own ministry.
Listening for the Sacred
This interactive training introduces peer supporters in ministry contexts, including clergy and lay leaders, to the practice of spiritually integrated listening. Participants will explore how spirituality may be expressed explicitly or implicitly in a person's story, and how listeners can recognize spiritual cues and gently invite deeper exploration without imposing their own beliefs or theological framework.
Conflict Coaching Skills
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Rooted In Hope with Ruth Harvey
Join the Iona Community and Ruth Harvey for a retreat exploring active, hope-filled Christian community. Through prayer, reflection, and shared learning, participants will engage how to live faithfully together in a fractured world.
Conference | Tackling Anti-Asian Racism
Topics will include the meaning and diversity of Asian identity, relationships between anti-racism and anti-Indigenous frameworks, theological responses to racism and practical approaches to community engagement. The conference aims to foster meaningful dialogue while equipping participants with resources for continued learning and action.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
What does the bible say about - Hell and Heaven
What Does the Bible Say About. . .? is a new online series of short discussions on different topics of interest for today’s church. The next in the series is “Hell and Heaven” which explores the views and language about the afterlife, reward and punishment in the biblical writings. The webinar will allow for Q & A and a study sheet for each topic will be posted.
Cultural Humility
Developing cultural humility isn’t a skill or a tool that you can find online. It’s a practice and a committed journey to know oneself, one’s unique history and to keep sustaining that curiosity and extend it beyond the self. This workshop will uncover and cover a curated pathway of resources that together are more than foundational building blocks to help you craft your journey of cultivating cultural humility.
To Faithfully Evolve
Explore what it means for the Church to faithfully evolve in today's world through a day of thoughtful presentations, conversation, and reflection with voices from Indigenous, Black, LGBTQ+, environmental, peacebuilding, and spiritual care communities.
Lester Randall Preaching Fellowship
The Lester Randall Preaching Fellowship returns to Toronto in 2026, bringing together preachers, theologians, ministry leaders, students, and worship leaders for one of Canada’s premier ecumenical preaching gatherings. This year’s theme, Preaching Jesus Christ, explores what it means to proclaim Christ faithfully in today’s complex and changing world. Through keynote lectures, workshops, worship, and mentoring opportunities, participants will reflect on preaching with theological depth, pastoral wisdom, and resurrection hope. Featured speakers include Craig Barnes, John Bell, and Teresa L. Fry Brown. Early-bird registration is open until July 3, 2026.
Facilitation Skills
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Companions on the Way: Ancient Wisdom for the Road Ahead
A one-day retreat for pastors, ministry leaders, and followers of Jesus to step away, connect with fellow travellers, and explore ancient wisdom for faithful life and ministry today. Hosted by The Good Table at Crieff Hills Retreat Centre, the day brings together teaching, contemplative practice, conversation, and reflection around hope, change, reconciliation, and the sustaining love of God. Ministry Forum is pleased to sponsor this gathering.
Negotiation and Difficult Conversations
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
From Ideas to Impact: Bringing your Ministry Vision to Life
Every ministry begins with an idea. Join Jennifer Astop, Senior Program Coordinator of Congregational and Community. Ministries, to hear inspiring stories of congregations and ministries that have turned creative ideas into meaningful ministry in their communities with the help of PCC grants.
Giving and Receiving Feedback for Church Leaders
Giving and receiving feedback is difficult. This session wrestles with the conundrum of feedback, exploring the benefits and risks of these tough conversations alongside concrete strategies for managing such conversations well, especially in contexts when dynamics of power influence how feedback is given and received. In addition, this session addresses how to transform “people problems” into easier-to-solve “situation problems.”
Theology & Identity: Exploring the Relationship Between Gender, Identity & Faith
Explore the relationship between gender, identity, and faith in this three-session online course from Canterbury College. Led by The Rev’d Chris Brouillard-Coyle, participants will consider how identity shapes theology and engage with different perspectives and stories about God, humanity, and our understanding of ourselves.
Worship: A Two-Day Retreat-Based Course
An immersive two-day retreat designed to equip worship leaders, pastors, musicians, and ministry volunteers for faithful and creative worship ministry.
Set in the beautiful surroundings of Loon Lake Lodge in Maple Ridge, BC, this retreat combines theological reflection with hands-on learning. Together, we will explore the biblical and historical foundations of Christian worship and discover how worship shapes our relationship with God, our communities, and the world.
The Art of Reflective Ministry
Explore the role of critical thinking, self-awareness, and self-reflection in grounded, Christ-focused ministry. This six-session online course with Rev. Dr. Jennifer Boyes-Garbin invites participants to reflect more deeply on our relationships with the Earth, one another, ourselves, and God.
“Broken Hallelujah”: Faith, Deconstruction, and Spirituality through Music
What happens to faith when trust is broken, certainty gives way to doubt, or the Church no longer feels like home? Drawing on stories gathered for Blessed Are the Undone, this course explores experiences of faith, deconstruction, and spiritual longing through the music and poetry that give voice to what can be difficult to articulate. Alongside stories of those who have felt dismissed or silenced within Christian communities, participants will engage contemporary musicians and poets whose work wrestles honestly with beauty and brokenness, doubt and belonging, loss and hope. From Leonard Cohen’s “broken Hallelujah” to the work of contemporary songwriters and poets, the course invites us to listen for the sacred beyond familiar religious forms, and to consider how art can open new possibilities for faith, meaning, and transformation.
What does the bible say about - The Return of Jesus
What Does the Bible Say About. . .? is a new online series of short discussions on different topics of interest for today’s church. The next in the series is “The Return of Jesus” which engages the New Testament passages that reference the return of the risen Christ and explores the variety of viewpoints on this topic. The webinar will allow for Q & A and a study sheet for each topic will be posted.
“We Are Free to Change the World”: Hannah Arendt on Resistance, Hope, and the Power of the Possible
In our era of post-truth politics, scapegoating persecution of minorities, and re-emerging fascism, Hannah Arendt’s investigations of 20th century totalitarianism and the possibility of resisting its evitable rise have gained fresh urgency. This course introduces Arendt’s thought to new readers through Lyndsey Stonebridge’s acclaimed intellectual biography, We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience (2024). Faced with what can feel like impenetrable darkness, Arendt insists that we remain free to resist evil’s suffocating allure and choose instead to love our broken, suffering world. Among other topics, we’ll explore her singular insights on love, natality, and the act of thinking itself, and ask what lessons they hold for Christians who want to embrace human plurality and act together with others to offer shalom to a world crying out for healing.
Preaching Mark: The Curious Case of Good News
This webinar will provide background on the Markan community, theological themes and general discussion about the first written gospel. There will be time for a Q&A, and a study sheet on key ideas will be posted.
Spiritually Equipping Children and Youth During Difficult Times
Around the world, communities are facing major social and systemic change. Signs of societal and environmental collapse are evident. Our attempts to live “independently,” create the experience of separation that leads to suffering, division and destruction, all of which runs counter to the sacred teachings present in all the World Religions, Earth-centered expressions and the teachings of Jesus. Nourishing children spiritually and equipping them with the skills they need to not just survive but thrive within this chaotic and stressful environment can ground, prepare, and inspire the next generation. We do this by providing spiritual practices, self-awareness exercises, and organizing tools so that youth and their communities may rise up resiliently, modeling a healthy, and whole way forward for all.
Group Facilitation
Inspired by and drawing on the seminal work of adrienne marie brown, this workshop will empower and equip you to be a strong leader with a whole bunch of people you don’t know and steer them confidently through a complicated - complex topic.
Transformative Mediation
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
What does the bible say about - The End Times
What Does the Bible Say About. . .? is a new online series of short discussions on different topics of interest for today’s church. The next in the series is “The End Times”, which compares the New Testament visions of the last days before the in-breaking of God. The webinar will allow for Q & A, and a study sheet for each topic will be posted.
Polarization in Congregations
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
The Balancing Act: Offering Empathetic Support Without Losing Ourselves
In our roles as helpers, we often see others’ suffering up close. Because we care so much, these experiences can take a toll on our wellbeing, and on how much we’re able to show up for others when they need us. So how do we stay present, compassionate, and useful to our communities in the long term?
Giving and Receiving Feedback
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Congregation and Religion Research Gathering
The CIECR hosts a Research Gathering at Wycliffe College in December each year. Meaningful discussions of new research and findings on congregations and religious trends in Canada (and beyond).
Boundaries for Peer Supporters and Ministry Leaders
Peer support listeners have the opportunity to make a meaningful difference through listening, caring, and offering support to others. To do this well, they also need healthy boundaries that protect both themselves and those they support. This engaging, interactive 90-minute workshop explores how to care deeply without carrying another person's burdens. Through real-life scenarios, discussion, and practical skill-building, participants will learn how to set compassionate boundaries, communicate them with confidence, and support others in a way that is both effective and sustainable. Participants will leave with practical tools they can use immediately to strengthen their peer support relationships while preventing burnout, compassion fatigue, and role confusion.
Mental Health and Conflict
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
APCE 2027 – Can These Bones Live?: Rediscovering What Matters
APCE 2027 invites Christian educators and ministry leaders to reimagine their work in a time of fatigue, fragmentation, and change. Rooted in Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones, this gathering explores how God’s Spirit renews, reconnects, and restores what truly matters in ministry today.
Understanding Conflict Foundations
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Transforming Group Dynamics
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Strong Roots: Contemplative Prayer & Practice
Explore six contemplative prayer practices that can deepen your relationship with God and strengthen your engagement with the world. Drawing on ancient, modern, and global voices, this three-session course considers how contemplation can nurture justice-focused, self-reflective Christian faith and practice.
Conflict Coaching Skills
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Nurturing Communities of Belonging
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
How Canadian Church Plants Engage in the Motus Dei (Movement of God)
Motus Dei is a missiological perspective that embraces what has been learned from the global church about movements.
Collective 2026
Collective is a spirit-filled gathering for youth, young adults, and their leaders—a space to grow in faith, build community, and reflect on shared experiences. Throughout the event, there will be times for everyone to be together, as well each group has dedicated programming designed to inspire, challenge, and equip them. Every day is filled with worship, recreation, discipleship groups, interactive workshops, and of course, delicious meals.
Pirate Island Ecclesiology: The Church as Formational Community
Many churches today struggle to connect spiritual formation with the actual life of the church and its mission in the world. What might it look like to recover the church as a school of life that forms us in the way of Jesus? Or, to shift the metaphor, how might we understand the church as a “pirate island”: a distinct community with its own rhythms and practices that forms disciples and sends them into the world to spread the holy mischief of God’s kingdom?
Guder Pastoral Retreat
The purpose of the Retreat is to equip and encourage pastors in their first fifteen years of ministry through an intensive learning environment at St. Andrew’s Hall on the beautiful UBC campus exploring a theme of missional leadership in the church today. Program costs, meals and a travel bursary are generously provided to participants selected each year.
Temper your Temperament: Understanding Managing Interpersonal Conflict
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Understanding Conflict Foundations
Part of Conrad Grebel University College's Certificate in Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership, these workshops equip church leaders with practical skills for navigating conflict, fostering healthy relationships, strengthening leadership, and helping congregations focus on mission rather than division. Participants may take individual workshops or work toward a certificate designed specifically for ministry contexts.
Strong Roots: Contemplative Prayer & Practice
A six-week hybrid course exploring contemplative prayer practices. Experience spiritual disciplines that deepen your relationship with God and support a sustainable, rooted faith.
InterGenerate Online Gatherings
Join intergenerational ministry leaders from around the world for a one-hour online gathering featuring practical resources, meaningful conversation, and opportunities to connect with others passionate about ministry across generations.
We Need To Listen - General Assembly Debrief
Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:
- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies
…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.
Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.
Soccer Sunday at Knox College Chapel
This tradition dates back to 1919, when Rev. John Linton led a “Soccer Sunday - working towards the goal” service that filled the church and captured public attention. Knox College itself also holds a unique place in Canadian soccer history, with its 1878 team recognized as the first Canadian Soccer Champions.
AI and Theology (Summer 2026 Course)
A summer course exploring the intersection of AI and theology. Reflect on how emerging technologies are shaping faith, ministry, and our understanding of what it means to be human.
MCC: Strawberry Thanksgiving and Communion
A special community event featuring Adrian Jacobs of the Turtle Clan, Cayuga Nation, sharing on the Spiritual Covenant—a reflection on land, relationship and reconciliation. Includes a thanksgiving with strawberries—the first fruit of the season and a sacred gift in Haudenosaunee culture, as well as sharing communion and a delicious lunch together.
NAIITS 23rd Annual Symposium
A three-day symposium exploring what it means to be a good ancestor, bringing together Indigenous and Christian perspectives on legacy, community, and responsibility for future generations.
The Art of Reflective Ministry
A six-week online course exploring theological reflection in everyday ministry. Learn practical tools to engage Scripture, experience, and culture with greater depth and intentionality.
Preaching Paul: Avoiding the Pitfalls
Much like sauerkraut, people either love Paul or they hate him. At the very least, he is an acquired taste. Some of the problems with Paul are not of his own making and some others are tied to a lack of contextual understanding of his letters. However, as practitioners in The Presbyterian Church in Canada or within any corner of Christianity, Paul is impossible to avoid. As one who has acquired an affinity for Paul, Dr. Lee Johnson will make suggestions for a better understanding of Paul and some ways to avoid giving him undeserved contempt.
Eden's Orchard: Turning Church Land into a Living Ministry and Mission, Building Community and Feeding the Hungry
Many churches today face a challenging combination of food insecurity in their communities, declining church attendance, and underused land on their properties. Eden’s Orchard, the missional expression of Eden’s Refuge, offers a compelling solution: transforming unused church grounds into thriving, low-maintenance orchards that feed the hungry and open new doors for local ministry. In this inspiring and practical webinar, JD Van Allen, certified permaculture designer and founder of Eden’s Refuge, will share how churches can plan, install, and maintain a community orchard with limited ongoing resources and volunteer hours. Drawing on real-world examples, including an orchard planted in the parking lot of C*Road Church, JD will show how a well-designed system becomes a sustainable ministry opportunity for decades to come.
Reimagining Church, Land and Community
A 2-day conference for church leaders, developers, architects and civic leaders to spark imagination and dialogue around church properties.
Henri Nouwen Society: 2026 Conference
The Henri Nouwen 30th Anniversary Conference (May 14–16, 2026, Toronto) gathers scholars and seekers to explore how Nouwen’s spirituality offers a prophetic and healing response to today’s global and personal challenges.
Courageous Faith in a Time of Fear
Courageous Faith in a Time of Fear is a two-day public conference exploring what it means to lead, speak, and act faithfully amid political polarization and deep divisions within churches.
Presented by Knox College's Ministry Forum and the Institute for Christian Studies' Free to Be Faithful initiative, the conference is open to clergy and lay leaders alike and includes a dedicated pastoral leadership track.
Through roundtables, workshops, and a closing panel, participants will explore sustaining big-tent communities, organizing for faithful action, and building the capacity of faith communities to move from fear to hope.
Annual Spirituality and Aging Seminar
A one-day seminar exploring the spiritual and existential dimensions of MAiD and end-of-life care, helping leaders engage questions of mortality, meaning, and compassionate accompaniment.
When Bullying happens in Church
A well-led meeting creates positive energy and builds momentum for the work of the church. This session invites participants to reflect on the facilitator’s role, provides tools for leading meetings well, and offers strategies for inviting differences and managing tension while minimizing unhealthy conflict. This workshop provides skills, strategies and a spirituality for nurturing healthy church cultures in the context of congregational and committee meetings.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
We Need To Listen
Join us for "We Need To Listen" where participants will find:
- support and encouragement
- accountability and celebration
- ideas and strategies
…and most of all, a community of people passionate about sharing the Good News of Jesus with the world but sometimes feel alone doing it.
Ministry Forum is delighted to host an online space that will strive to be safe as modelled and facilitated by its hosts where ministry leaders will gather with almost no agenda and where everything is on the table and tangents are welcomed.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
2026 Kintail Speaker Series
How do we as disciples of Jesus study, learn, teach, and preach on healing narratives in conversation with a disability perspective? How does society’s perception of disability, now and during Christ’s ministry, shape our reading of scripture? What might disability studies offer the church in shaping a Christ community, one that is shaped and reshaped by our diverse bodies? How might we imagine ministry and discipleship? Our day together will start these conversations, learning in community, and approaching such questions with curiosity and care. We will examine how the sin of ableism seeps into our communities and process together it's impacts and our responses.
Equipped 2026 – In-Person Leadership Training Across Canada
Equipped is a new one-day, in-person training series from CCCC designed to help Christian charity leaders and pastors grow in leadership, strengthen governance, and navigate legal and HR responsibilities with confidence. Hosted in cities across Canada, these practical, connection-rich events provide real-world tools you can immediately apply in your ministry.
The Future of Innovation: From Research to Shared Discernment
A 90-minute online gathering inviting Canadian ministry leaders into a shared process of discernment, exploring emerging trends and imagining faithful next steps for innovation in their contexts.
Shrinking Futures - Growing Hope
Across Canada, many churches face declining attendance, aging congregations, and uncertain futures. This workshop invites congregations to move from survival anxiety toward faithful discernment and renewed mission.
What should churches do when their future no longer looks sustainable?
Scripture and Theology Colloquium: Just what is "Scripture and Theology"?
After 18 years, Wycliffe College takes stock, and asks its own faculty and some guests what they have learned on the nature of Scripture, theology, and how they relate. How does that relationship make a difference to how faculty write (publish) and teach in their respective fields (from Hebrew poetry to church planting)? Some faculty will consider biblical theology, others - the "theological interpretation of Scripture," and the "open" hermeneutics of the Bible and of theology.
Leading in Uncertain Times
This six-session online course supports ministry leaders who are navigating uncertainty, polarization, and rapid change. Participants are invited to strengthen their inner life, develop trauma-informed leadership practices, and cultivate hope-filled, sustainable leadership for today’s church and communities.