Category: Garth Williams

If you are familiar with the story of Lewis & Clark, you may know that they were challenged with finding (what was believed to exist) a NorthWest water passage that would connect the Eastern United States to the Pacific Ocean. Akin to flat earth thinking,… Read More »

Monday Monday . . . I don’t know how many of you are familiar with this iconic Momas and Papas song, but it starts with such promise and hope with the opening verse: “Monday Monday, so good to me. Monday Morning, it was all I… Read More »

Did you miss us? It’s been quite a while since we’ve posted a podcast. We’ve been wanting to get back to offering these regularly as a way for you to hear some conversations about issues that affect leadership, the church and our culture. This week… Read More »

I hate Facebook. Well that’s not exactly true. Let me try again. I dislike Facebook. Well that’s closer, but I’m still not comfortable with that either. Let me try one more time. I think Facebook is like the church of Laodicea (Rev. 3:14-16): lukewarm; neither… Read More »

Recently I was reminded that solid leadership is rooted deep in the disciplines of our lives and that we need to pay attention to these areas to be the leader that God is calling us to be. I’m going to identify the three general areas… Read More »

My call to vocational ministry came during the spring of 1987. The steps in my journey to ordination with the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada (CBAC) were guided by the people God placed around me —people from my local church, school community and friends. Affirmation… Read More »

54 – the percentage of our current Clergy who will be eligible for retirement in 15 years, that approximately 250 of our 460 current active clergy. 7 – the number of Ordinations that will take place over the next 2 months which got started this… Read More »

26 – the number of grade 12 students this past weekend at Potential Impact under the leadership of Renée Embree our Director of Youth & Family. Such great hope and potential in these young leaders. Pray for them as they each discern how God has… Read More »

65 new churches. Amalgamation. Fresh Expressions. Satellites. Church Plants. When I first saw this in the new senior staff proposal I thought what a bold, exciting challenge for us as a people of God to recapture our church planting DNA. That was long before I… Read More »

The other night when I was at the Diner with my boys, the oldest pulls out a fistful of firecrackers, my first response was not a parental, “Where did you get those?” with the accompanying gasp – instead it was an awed, “How many of… Read More »