Monday, May 30, to Sunday, June 5. This is the fourth of four weekly prayer guides as we pray fervently for the 147th General Assembly to be held online June 5-8, 2022. We are praying in advance for the commissioners, the moderator, the clerks, the General Assembly office, and all of those who have a … Continue reading Pray for GA 2022 – Week 4
Pray For GA 2022 – Week 3
Monday, May 23 - Sunday, May 29 This is the third of four weekly prayer guides as we pray fervently for the 147th General Assembly to be held online June 5-8, 2022. We are praying in advance for the commissioners, the moderator, the clerks, the General Assembly office, and all of those who have a … Continue reading Pray For GA 2022 – Week 3
Pray for GA 2022 – Week 2
Monday, May 16, to Sunday, May 22 Let us begin with timeless, ancient prayer: Jesus, my feet are dirty. Come even as a slave to me, pour water into your bowl, come and wash my feet. In asking such a thing I know I am overbold, but I dread what was threatened when you said … Continue reading Pray for GA 2022 – Week 2
Pray For GA 2022 – Week 1
Monday, May 9 - Sunday, May 15. As friends, members, adherents, elders, and ministers in The Presbyterian Church in Canada, we are fervently praying for the 147th General Assembly, to be held online June 5-8, 2022. We are praying in advance for the commissioners, the moderator, the clerks, the General Assembly office, and all of … Continue reading Pray For GA 2022 – Week 1
Stand Our Ground
Good news! The church is growing! The latest annual statistics from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary indicate that there are fewer atheists around the world today (147 million) than in 1970 (165 million) and the report expects the number to continue to decline into 2050. Almost 2.56 billion … Continue reading Stand Our Ground
Prayer and Care
In recent weeks, many Canadian provinces have ended their mask mandates. For the first time in almost two years, we see each other’s faces in grocery stores and perhaps also in church. And yet for the most part there is no feeling of liberation or great cry of joy. To be sure, we like it. … Continue reading Prayer and Care
Renewal News – Spring 2022
Download the entire issue in PDF format, or read and comment on the individual articles: Renewal Day and AGM 2022 – Remaining True to God's Will – Stillness Amidst Agitation – Faithful Presence in the PCC – Study Buddies in God's Word – On the Renewal Café Menu – A Prayer Testimony – Board Profile … Read more
Stillness Amidst Agitation
And the beat goes on. I arrived in Simcoe just as the 2008 recession was digging its tenacles into every fibre of society. We more or less recovered, at least economically; but it seems there have been constant and serious seismic shivers shaking life ever since. The past many months have only intensified the severity … Continue reading Stillness Amidst Agitation
Remaining as a faithful presence in the PCC
On January 29, 2022, a total of 60 people gathered via Zoom for “Called Together — a Time of Encouragement” for evangelical/orthodox/traditional believers within The Presbyterian Church in Canada who remain called to the places where we currently worship and serve — but may feel isolated and discouraged. But we are not alone. Speaker Rev. … Continue reading Remaining as a faithful presence in the PCC
Study Buddies in God’s Word
Dedicated group uses The Story to study Scripture via Zoom Your New Year’s resolution is to read through your Bible from Genesis through Revelation. You start strong, recognizing familiar names, such as Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, and stories about apples and snakes, a flood topped off with a … Continue reading Study Buddies in God’s Word
A Prayer Testimony
This is a testimony of a couple who for many years, were homeless and travelling around Canada, destitute and struggling with addictions and hopelessness, surviving by living in parks, alleyways under tarps, tents, and receiving handouts in community centres and shelters. They lived “welfare cheque to welfare cheque” and often taking advantage of the compassion … Continue reading A Prayer Testimony
Prayer and Care in a Divided World
As we work towards the renewal and revival of the church in accordance with Biblical orthodoxy, The Renewal Fellowship is focusing on two priorities in 2022: prayer and pastoral care. To be effective in those two things, we need to understand our church and the world in which we exist. The following essay is intended … Continue reading Prayer and Care in a Divided World
No Middle Ground
A recent survey from Renewal Fellowship asked readers where their minds were at four months after the historic change in doctrine of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (PCC). It was hardly a scientific survey, but the responses mirrored what we’ve been hearing in conversations: In general, “We are staying in the PCC for now, while … Read more
Click on the links below to the individual articles, which contain links to additional material not found in the PDF version.
Or download the entire Winter 2022 issue of Renewal News in PDF format.
In the current issue of Renewal News:
- Prayer and Care – by Andy Cornell
- Chafed by Safe! – Ian Shaw
- Drawing guidance from nature – by Andy Cornell
- Living Hope – November 13, 2021
- Anglican Renewal – by Andy Cornell
- Board profile: Glynis Faith
- Good things to know about Renewal
Chafed by Safe
Mis-speaking seems to be almost as endemic in Western society as the COVID virus. Retractions, corrections, additional information and apologies [both abject and ambivalent] are common occurrences in the public sphere. One form of mis-speaking that rarely gets emended is incorrect use of the English language. One misuse in particular has drawn my attention, reflection … Continue reading Chafed by Safe
Drawing Guidance From Nature
Lessons from Squirrel Land. Picture a collection of old trees, filled with squirrels darting up and down the trunks and back and forth across the branches. They are frenetically active. Two squirrels are chasing one other with a walnut in its mouth. Theft? Covetousness? Fun and games? Squirrels just do what they are wired to … Continue reading Drawing Guidance From Nature
Living Hope: A Day of Encouragement and Renewal
Videos on this page:
Rev. Dr. Dale Woods: “Six Stages of Faith” - experiences of faith throughout life.
Kristy Short of Alpha Canada: "Engaging evangelism in a COVID World".
Rev. Dr. Christine O’Reilly: "Salt and Light" - church court strategies post-Remits.
Rev. Doug Cameron and Rev. Cathi Cameron: "Grieving to live" - engaging loss to regain vitality.
Rev. Dr. Esther Acolatse: "Recovering the joy - rekindling the hope".
Shane Davis and Jon Dykeman: "Youth/young adult ministry - how to engage and encourage."
Cory McKenna of The Cross Current: "How do we walk as followers of Christ in an increasingly secular world?" ... Read More
Anglican Renewal
Renewal groups can be found in many denominations. From time to time, we will take a look at others who adhere to the authority of scripture and resist bringing secular values into theology. “Gone by 2040?” The stark headline in the January 2020 Anglican Journal was an attention grabber, pointing to the grim conclusion of … Continue reading Anglican Renewal
Good things to know about Renewal
New director: Rev. Meridyth Robertson, of Trail, British Columbia, joined the board as of October 30, 2021. Her profile will appear in a future edition. Let’s get together: Renewal Fellowship’s next annual meeting will take place on April 30, 2022. Location/method (online or in person) TBA. Extraordinary support: Over the past 24 months, Renewal has … Continue reading Good things to know about Renewal
Remit Response Survey
Along with the quarterly e-mailout of the Renewal News and Prayer Calendar, sent the last week of September, we included a survey, asking respondents to share their responses to the adoption of remits ‘B’ and ‘C.’ We received 21 responses: Ministers - 12; Elders - 5; Members - 3; Adherents - 1. Responses arrived from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland and included … Read more