Upcoming events.
10-week Basic Course in Pastoral Care
This 10-week Basic Course in Pastoral Care offers practical training for those seeking to deepen their ability to care for others with wisdom, compassion, and presence. Offered both in person in Ottawa and online via Zoom, the Spring 2026 course runs from March 9 to May 11 and spaces are limited.
Trauma-Informed Leadership
Trauma-Informed Leadership is a six-session online course designed to equip faith leaders and ministry practitioners to better understand trauma, recognize its impact, and cultivate healthier ministry environments. Whether you are serving in a congregation, nonprofit, or community setting, this course provides practical tools to strengthen both personal resilience and organizational health.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Healthy Boundaries in Congregational Life
Ministry involves coming alongside those with whom we minister, through both the joys and challenges of life, inviting us into deep and profound interactions with those we serve. In this context, it can be challenging to define and set boundaries; yet, to do so is critical for healthy relationships. This interactive session is intended for all leaders who wish to establish healthy boundaries in the context of ministry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CASC/ACSS National Conference 2026
The CASC/ACSS National Conference 2026 invites spiritual care and psychospiritual therapy practitioners to reflect on how innovation, technology, and social change are reshaping spiritual health. Gathering in Ottawa, this national conference will explore emerging practices, research, and partnerships that support care, resilience, and meaning in a rapidly changing world.
(Re)imagining the Children’s Message
Free one-hour online workshop led by Erin Reed Cooper on how to think differently about the possibilities and purposes of the Children’s Message in worship. Sponsored by the Hub for (Re)imagining Ministry at Wesley Theological Seminary.
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.
Spirituality Retreat - Walking in Shalom
This two-day retreat at Camp Kintail explores the biblical vision of shalom — wholeness, justice, and harmony for all creation. Through reflection, conversation, and time in nature, participants will consider how to live in ways that nurture restoration and peace in our world.
Polarization in Congregations
It seems that polarized conversations are all around us, including in our congregations. This session considers the dynamics of polarities and the risks of either-or thinking, while proposing a concrete tools for transforming deeply entrenched differences, and embracing the power and possibility of both-and thinking.
Best Practices for Pastoral Transitions
Lewis Center Director Jonathan Page gives insight into actions leaders in transition can take before, during, and immediately following an upcoming move. Whether you're a leader getting ready for a new opportunity or a community preparing to welcome a new leader, this webinar will help you plan for what is ahead.
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.
Eco-Justice in the Congregation: Creating Ministries for People and Planet
Join us as Rev. Konnie Vissers shares about the emerging ministry Rooted: Centre for Theology and Eco-Justice. What started as dissertation research into eco-anxiety and spiritual care for children, has emerged into an organization that seeks to build resilience for people and planet through theologically rooted and eco-justice focused environmental education. Konnie will share some of her research findings around eco-anxiety in young people, and how congregations can use gardening as a spiritual practice to bolster resilience in children who experience eco-anxiety. Specifically, Konnie will demonstrate how Rooted teaches young people how to grow their own food sustainably and ethically, and shares the food with participants, local families, and the food bank, to promote food security and eco-justice.
What We Wish Were There: Biblical Scholarship’s Reliance on Stereotypes of Judaism
This PCC Webinar examines how misinformed New Testament interpretation has contributed to anti-Judaism within Christian history. Drawing on biblical scholarship, the session invites churches into deeper accountability and more faithful engagement with Judaism.
The Varied Landscape of Women’s Church Experiences
This interactive webinar with Lindsay Callaway explores new research on women’s experiences in Canadian evangelical churches, highlighting generational, cultural, and theological dynamics shaping participation today. Join the conversation to better understand how women engage church life and what it means for your ministry context.
The Art of Transitional Ministry Part 1
This course introduces students to intentional transitional ministry leadership featuring conversations about entering systems, assessing needs, considering history, the role of conflict, and healthy departing. Course begins with a live Zoom session on February 5, 2026.
Beyond Resilience and Clergy Burnout
Ministry can be both deeply rewarding and exhausting. This workshop invites clergy and their primary support teams into a gentle space of reflection, rest, and renewal. Together, we will explore spiritual practices and support structures that nurture resilience and sustain the call to serve with joy.
Spirituality and Ageing Encore Webinar Series
The Encore Webinar Series grew out of the International Conference on Ageing and Spirituality (ICAS), which has more than 20 years of history bringing together a global community of researchers and practitioners. Following ICAS Canada 2023, Encore was created to continue learning, sharing, and connection through accessible online gatherings.
Forum on Climate, Conflict and Gender
Join KAIROS on March 11 for an online forum exploring the intersection of climate disruption, conflict, and gender inequality. Hear from global partners and learn about the launch of the Women Peacebuilders project supporting climate justice and sustainable peace.
Leading Congregational Meetings
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.
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.
Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health
This live, online continuing education conference explores how spirituality and religion intersect with mental health care, bringing together leading experts from psychiatry, psychology, chaplaincy, neuroscience, and public health. Participants will gain practical, evidence-based tools to integrate spiritual and religious dimensions into compassionate, culturally competent clinical practice.
Theology That Shapes the Soul
Many Christian leaders have a well-formed theology of what they believe about God, but far less clarity about a theology of spiritual formation: how those beliefs shape the way we live and lead.
This six-week experience, led by Ruth Haley Barton, invites leaders to engage a biblical, theological, and spiritual framework for Christian formation—not merely as abstract ideas, but as truth to be embodied within communities.
Not Too Little to Lead: The Value of Children as Leaders in our Worship
We all love having children present in the church, but what does it look like when our children are full and active participants in the leadership of our worship services? In this webinar, Brand McDonald will share the successes and challenges her church has faced in their intentional approach to ensuring children feel empowered to be active participants in the leadership of worship services.
To See Or Not To See? A Theology of The Future
What does it mean for Christians to think faithfully about the future? This lecture explores a theology of the future that looks beyond eschatology to the real human choices, responsibilities, and possibilities that shape our common life. It considers the growing value of foresight –the disciplined practice of anticipating emerging realities– and how Christians might understand imagining the future as an expression of prophetic wisdom rather than prediction or presumption. Drawing on Scripture, theology, and practice, the lecture examines how we understand the relationship between past and future, why Christians often hesitate to look ahead, and how we can avoid both fatalism and naïve optimism. It offers a thoughtful exploration of how God’s people can discern, imagine, and lean into preferred futures with courage and hope.
Nurturing Communities of Belonging
Conrad Grebel University College’s Nurturing Communities of Belonging is an interactive online workshop for leaders in faith, community, and professional settings, equipping participants with tools to address prejudice, power, and privilege while fostering diversity and inclusion. Facilitator: Cayla Charles.
Self-Compassion for Work Stress and Burnout, with Kristin Neff
“Kristin Neff's Self-Compassion concept was one of the pillars that held me up as I navigated COVID-19” - says Director John
This live online workshop explores how self-compassion can reduce work stress and prevent burnout in both paid and unpaid caregiving roles. Drawing on research and practical exercises, participants will learn tools to respond to exhaustion and moral injury with greater care, balance, and resilience.
Today's Teens Conference 2026
This is for youth workers, community workers, student leaders, teacher, parents, camp staff and those who minister to teens!
Featuring Shaila Visser, Sid Koop, Heather Flies, Mike Gordon, Virginia Ward, Tim Teakle, Jason Persaud, Lisa Pak and 40+ Breakout speakers along with OJ the DJ and special worship guests.
Ember
The Ember Gathering (Oakland, CA) is a new three-day retreat centering inclusive, justice-oriented spirituality through speakers, worship, workshops, and community-driven design. Hosted by Nu Foundation with Oak Life Church.
The Ministry of Private Practice
This event offers a practical and reflective overview for those considering private practice or work within group practice settings.
A Spiritual Care Exploration of Internal Family Systems
This online workshop introduces spiritual care practitioners to the foundations of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and its emerging engagement with spirituality and non-physical experiences. Participants will explore how IFS can offer respectful, ethical, and skillful ways to engage spiritual experiences within spiritual care and psychospiritual practice.
Panel discussion will focus on risks of AI—and how faith communities respond
Hosted by the World Council of Churches, this online panel discussion will feature scientists, ethicists, and theologians, who will focus on various facets of the risks of AI, including the AI arms race.
Intergenerate Conference
This global online gathering brings together practitioners, scholars, and ministry leaders to explore intergenerational faith through listening, relationship, and shared practice. With voices from around the world, the conference focuses on building durable, hopeful connections across age, culture, and context.
Facilitating the Consensus Process
This workshop considers several key elements critical for effectively facilitating a consensus process, including a clear purpose for the meeting, focused discussion questions, an agenda that moves items naturally from introduction to discussion to decision, maintaining momentum and building consensus, alongside effective strategies for engaging participant comments.
Ministry from the Inside Out: Spiritual Disciplines for Ministry Leaders
How are we, as leaders, attending to our interior journeys of faith? How are we attending to our own needs for healing and transformation? How do we mindfully support the congregations and organizations we are serving? This session considers several spiritual disciplines to support healthy leadership practices.