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Are you ready? Is your church ready?

I have two quick videos to share with you today and I’d like to thank Kem Meyer whose post this week reminded me that I’ve been meaning to do this for some time. I thank Kem also for offering this quote from Craig Groeschel, founder of LifeChurch.tv:
“We used to spend our time trying to get [...]

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Worth 1000 Words: find the right image

We all love pretty pictures. What better way to encapsulate the wonder of your message of [hope/love/glory/resurrection/etc.] than with a lovely photo of a [cross/dove/burning bush/etc.]?
Images are fascinatingly easy to find on the web. Google’s image search presents a mind-boggling collection of images suited to just about any combination of keywords you can think of. [...]

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The Internet is not Evolutionary

It is revolutionary.
I have spent a fair bit of my time over the last few years explaining the web to people. The people I talk to are smart people but the internet is new – and it’s new in a new kind of way. It is a transformative presence in our lives in ways we [...]

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Meeting a need: Rev. Glenn Cooper on the role of Camp Geddie in the Synod of the Atlantic Provinces

Growing Together at Geddie – One Plants, another waters. . . .
“Hands up if church camping has been a significant part of your life.” That request was made at a gathering of most of the clerks of our church’s presbyteries and synods, who gather every two years, usually in Mississauga, to discuss matters of concern [...]

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What a Week!

It’s been pretty hectic around the Communications Office this week. With April bringing the official launch of the new & improved PCConnect family of communications channels, there was much running around and pulling of hair!
Finally, today, I am so pleased to announce that the very first episode of PCConnect-TV is live on the [...]

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Catching Up

It’s been a busy two weeks or so – so here are a few quick items that I’ve been meaning to pass along:
PCConnect-TV is Coming!
The Communications team has been busily preparing for the launch of PCConnect-TV, the new weekly video series being produced by the Communications Office to showcase the life and work of The [...]

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The Words We Live By

The life and work of Presbyterian Church in Canada are guided by many documents – primary among them being, of course, The Bible.
Two other documents that figure prominently in the life of The PCC are Living Faith, a subordinate standard of our Church and the Book of Forms. I wondered what a word-density analysis of [...]

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More Facebook Stats

I’ve been trying to avoid posting too much about Facebook because I don’t want this to become the “Presbyterian Facebook Blog.” I truly believe, however, that Facebook is the single greatest community-building opportunity in The PCC so my mission to educate and illustrate how and why continues.
Earlier this week there was an unconference in Toronto [...]

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Website Traffic Update

Every once in a while, I’ll be sharing some statistics about the Presbyterian.ca website and its visitors. In this post, I wanted to share a little bit about the differences between our international and domestic traffic.
In the last quarter of 2008 (Oct-Dec) the website at Presbyterian.ca was visited 60,000 times from 153 countries! Of those [...]

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Doing versus Being

The title of this blog pretty clearly sets out my perspective on communicating what the PCC is all about: the most important story about The Presbyterian Church in Canada is the illustration of what it is to BE Presbyterian in Canada today.
I came across a blog post written last year by Bruce Reyes-Chow, who is [...]

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