Small Church Connections
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What Happened to Prayer Meetings?
Dr. Ron Johnston
Someone once said that the reason why people don’t go to prayer meetings is because they went to prayer meetings. I identified with that completely when I heard it. When I was a teenager, the church I attended held a prayer meeting every Wednesday night. It was not the highlight of my week. It was boring, repetitive and at least for me lasted too long. If I had written this paragraph back then scores of people in churches all over the country would have identified with what I just wrote.
In the decades since then most evangelical churches have stopped having prayer meetings mostly
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Episode #87 – Marilyn Draper – Mentoring, Storytelling and Women in Ministry
Imagine growing up on a sheep farm in southwestern Ontario. Jump ahead a few decades to your current role – associate professor of Practical Theology at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto, Ontario. Marilyn Draper has been a church planter, ministered in small churches and teaches students looking to enter ministry.
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Small Church Pastors’ Retreats
Small Church Connections has established the Canadian Small Church Network open to anyone with a desire to serve small churches more effectively than in the past.
Small Church Connections is planning retreats where pastors and spouses, if they are able to come, can spend a few days away from their churches with other small church pastors