This free webinar series is supported by LeaderSHIFT, The United Church of Canada, Pacific Mountain Regional Council, Chinook Winds Regional Council. It’s for church leaders - clery and lay - to explore ways to encourage, support, and talk about church finances and givings.

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Session 5, of 6

a six week course exploring how our work for justice is rooted in United Church of Canada faith tradition and sacred scripture

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SESSION 1, OF 4

This free webinar series is supported by LeaderSHIFT, The United Church of Canada, Pacific Mountain Regional Council, Chinook Winds Regional Council. It’s for church leaders - clery and lay - to explore ways to encourage, support, and talk about church finances and givings.

Full course details and registration information is on the Living Generously: A Stewardship Webinar Series event page.

A Stewardship Webinar

with Vicki Nelson, Pacific Mountain Community of Faith Stewardship Support

Full Webinar details are on the Advent of Generosity event page. We look forward to welcoming you on Zoom!

Small groups are places of depth and connection in our communities of faith. But now that we aren’t meeting face to face, how do we build relationships and intimacy for learning when we are staring at screens? In this short workshop, we will explore how to create engaging small groups for an online format.  Material covered will include how to create a format that builds relationships, exercises and techniques to try, how to manage pacing, and how to make Zoom work for you (instead of against you).  

Rev Rhian Walker is one of the ministers at St Andrew’s Wesley United in Vancouver and has been part of the LeaderShift team as a facilitator. She has run small groups throughout her ministry. Prior to ministry she was a trainer and facilitator for a Vancouver public relations firm.  

If you are a member or leader in the United Church of Canada, you are experiencing familiar structures, expectations, and habits changing as we face massive shifts in our church and social and political orders. Pandemic, elections, virtual church - you can imagine roaming through the unknown, trying on different approaches. and searching for ideas to orient yourself. Where are we? Who are we? God is calling us to unfamiliar and unknown territory. Join Matt Miofsky, lead pastor of The Gathering to explore together God’s call to trust in a future we cannot fully see -- and to let go even more than we thought possible to rest in that trust.

Matt is the Lead and Founding Pastor of The Gathering in St. Louis, Missouri. Since Matt founded The Gathering in 2006, it has grown into a thriving multi-site congregation with three locations scattered throughout St. Louis. With over 1600 in worship a weekend, The Gathering was recently named the 3rd fastest growing large United Methodist Churches. 

Matt is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where he received a B.A. in mathematics. He then completed his Master’s of Divinity at Emory University in Atlanta. He served as an associate pastor for a local UM church in St. Louis before starting The Gathering. 

Matt is passionate about church planting, connecting with new generations, and multi-site ministry. He frequently speaks and teaches on these subjects. Matt is the author of “Let Go: Leaning Into the Future Without Fear” (Abingdon, May 2019), “8 Virtues of Rapidly Growing Churches” (Abingdon Books, October 2018), “Happy? What It Is and How to Find It” (Abingdon Books, April 2017), “Fail: What to Do When Things Go Wrong” (Abingdon Books, September 2017), a contributor to Disciple Fast Track: Into the Word, Into the World (Abingdon, 2017), “Flipping Church: How Successful Church Planters Are Turning Conventional Wisdom Upside-Down” (Discipleship Resources, 2016), and the “Ask: Faith Questions in a Skeptical Age” DVD project (Abingdon, 2015). 

Matt has been elected to serve as a delegate from Missouri to the United Methodist General and Jurisdictional Conferences in 2012, 2016, 2019, and is a delegate for both Conferences again in 2020. Matt is also passionate about the Mozambique safe water ministry he began through The Gathering. To date this ministry has raised over $1,769,083.78 for safe water and dug over 154 wells.  

When he's not writing, preaching, or teaching, Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and three kids. 

You can connect with him via: 

• Facebook: @MattMiofsky 

• Twitter: @mmiofsky 

• Instagram mmiofsky 

• www.mattmiofsky.com