Missional Church

Resources that inform you about missional church

Church Planting Canada is a network of Canadian leaders who work together for the multiplication of churches across Canada. They focus on the missional nature of the churches that are being planted in order to engage in the transformation of  neighbourhoods with the love of Christ. Their shared vision and values are based on the pursuit of this transformation.

Forge Missional Training Network is a growing network of leaders and churches in Canada who are committed to training leaders and churches to transform their neighbourhoods.

     Interview with Alan Hirsch, Cam Roxborough, and Don Goertz
     Missional Voice Magazine

Michael Frost lecture on being Missional Church

Urban Expression is a mission agency that recruits, equips, deploys and networks self-financing teams pioneering creative and relevant expressions of the Christian church in under-churched areas of the inner city. Urban Expression is committed to incarnational ministry on the margins and amongst the poor and encourages teams to move into urban neighborhoods to work with others to pioneer exciting, grass-roots, transformative way of being church which seek God’s kingdom of justice and peace.

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st-Century Church
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch tell real life stories gathered from emergent church projects from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and England. These spirited experiments of Gospel community serve to point out just how varied a genuinely incarnational approach to mission can, and indeed needs to, become. They present vital nodes of missional learning for the established church as it seeks to orientate itself to the unique challenges of the twenty-first century.

Kingdom Culture: Growing the Missional Church
Phil Wagler's book seeks to bring "missional" to street level. The combination of story, teaching, discussion questions, and practical tools makes Kingdom Culture an accessible and excellent resource for church leaders, study groups, and individuals who keep praying for the Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.

Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor
Robert D. Lupton describes how human development (as opposed to non-reciprocal services and programs) can enhance the life of a community for all its residents, both rich and poor. This book is an attempt at a candid re-examination of our common methods of charity.