Posts Tagged ‘community’

Preview Night #3 – by Alycia Logan

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Last night was the third of our five Preview Nights leading up to our Church launch, and once again, it was great night as we gathered together to focus on how good God is! As the team led us in communion I could not help but be overwhelmed by the incomparable love that God has for us. How can we not share that with the world!!?? It is simply too good to keep to ourselves.

Damian spoke about resting in God in relation to our capacity. We can do so much more when we rest in God – sometimes it’s not even about more in quantity, but more in quality. I believe that as we rest in God we can watch Vantage Church take shape and see God’s amazing work at hand in the lives of people in our community. When we enter in and choose to lift Him up we become a shining light in the darkness.  Last night as we sang “The same power that conquered the grave lives in me” those words of declaration stirred up a passion to see the Church become that light. Every week God continues to amaze us with His goodness.

And of course we had time to eat food and drink coffee as well! The team has loved getting to know everyone who is coming through our doors to check out Vantage Church and it is fantastic to be meeting new people every week! For those of you who have not come along to one of our services yet we would absolutely love to have you. You are welcome anytime!

As we get closer to our September 13th launch we are expectant and excited for what is in store! We hope to see you at our next Preview Night on August 26th!

The greatest of these is love….

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about love recently. I guess it started after reading an article about the state of teenagers in our nation. It was an interesting article to read as it was full of studies and surveys of Canadian teenagers. The general gist was that teenagers of this millennium are drinking less, doing less drugs and having less sex. Which in itself, should be an encouraging statistic… except that according to the same article, the number of teenagers claiming to be Christian has fallen dramatically over the past 20 years. There are multitudes of teenagers converting to other faiths, like Islam and Buddhism, but sadly not to Christianity.

So I guess the question is, why? (more…)

The beauty of the local church

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Since arriving in Toronto, our family has been visiting different churches every Sunday. It’s been such a foreign concept to us because we have never been church hoppers. We’ve always planted ourselves at a church so to now be going to unfamiliar churches on a regular basis is weird. But we thought it was important for a couple of reasons… mainly for research and relationship development. We are very aware that there are other churches in Toronto that are doing great things – there are churches that have growing congregations, are meeting the needs of people and are making a difference in their communities. In some respects, it would appear as if Toronto doesn’t need another church as there are so many. (more…)