Eastern Canada

MISSION-SHAPED CONGREGATIONS

Resonate regional staff are equipping church leaders in the Eastern Canada region to multiply congregations that are bearing faithful witness to Christ’s reign and actively making disciples who live in the way of Jesus.

MISSIONAL LEADERS

Resonate regional staff work to grow the number of leaders who participate in God's mission.

As part of our work with missional leaders, the Eastern Canada team supports and resources CRC campus ministries within our region through grants, encouragement, and ministry reviews.

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Learn more about CRC Campus Ministry here

HOLISTIC MISSION NETWORKS

Resonate regional staff are working to increase the number of connections among God's people. Together, congregations and leaders can work for spiritual and social transformation.

In This Region

The Eastern Canada team represents Resonate Global Mission in actively partnering with churches and classes and other partners to catalyse and strengthen new churches, campus ministries and missional communities in the Eastern Canada region.

Regional Leader

Kevin DeRaaf

Staff

Xiomara Martinez-Shierman
John Bouwers
Gillian Bruce
Marian Lenskink
Jack Tacoma

Classes in our Region

Hamilton
Toronto
Huron
Chatham
Eastern Canada
Quinte
Niagara

Missionaries

Greg Sinclair

Opportunities

Toronto-Arab-Outreach

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February 21, 2019
There’s More to the Gospel
“I have always heard, my whole life, that God loves me unconditionally and that if I follow his directions then that is good and everything will turn out OK,” said Josh, a fourth-year student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.

But Josh doubted whether he measured up to God’s ways. Raised in church, he earnestly sought God and desired to share God’s love with others—but questions plagued Josh’s mind.

“I was wondering about my actual effect on others. Am I actually loving those around me? Am I doing as Jesus would do? How do I know?”
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January 23, 2019
Urban Gardens in Montréal Point People to God
Laurianne Debanné dug her hands into warm soil.

Buildings formed a concrete fortress around her; cars rushed by on the oil-stained street; people hurried past with their eyes on their cell phones.

More than one million people call Montréal, Québec, home—but few are Christians. People live within a few steps of one another, but walls separate them. People are hungry for community.
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September 18, 2018
Church Family Helps Provide Comfort in Life and Death
Olivia* was 14 when her mother passed away after never fully recovering from a car accident. That was just the start of her grief—but God met her at Destination CRC, a Resonate church plant in St. Thomas, Ontario.

Grief and Doubt
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June 6, 2018
Financial Shalom Project Hosts Bivocational Pastor Conference
Melvin Jackson sells real estate in Los Angeles, Calififornia, and also works on approving loans for people looking to buy a home.

Meanwhile, in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Allen Kleine Deters works in a cigar shop and is also a blues musician.
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March 21, 2018
Why I Am Bivocational (BIVO)
Allen Kleine Deters is CRC Pastor of The Bridge, a new missional community plant that Resonate Global Mission partners with in Niagara Falls, ON. He originally wrote this reflection on the Network.
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