BCYD NETWORK NEWS | SEPTEMBER 2020

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MINISTRY ARTICLES

From our district leaders

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AROUND THE DISTRICT

IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON THE PAOC

An executive summary prepared by the PAOC National Office

Ministry updates and churches in transition

BC & YUKON DISTRICT OF THE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA

2020

SEPTEMBER EDITION

Len DenBraber | Assistant District Superintendent for Multiplication I have a confession to make: I am relieved I’m not pastoring a local church right now. The restrictions on gathering and the necessity to go online has stretched every pastor I know and has required everyone to learn new skills – literally overnight! Pastoring is a challenge at the best of times, but right now it’s just hard.

I have great admiration and respect for every pastor who is recording sermons,

leading online Bible studies and caring for their congregation from afar.

The natural response to the constant disruption is to look forward to a time when things will return to normal: when you can welcome people with a handshake or a hug, preach to a live congregation that isn’t physically distanced, meet someone for coffee

without wearing a mask or dipping your hands in sanitizer first and a host of other things.

At the risk of being labeled as a prophet of doom, I don’t think we’re returning to normal anytime soon. Think about it: in March we hoped to be back for Easter.

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abilities while learning new skills as well: how to engage an audience online, how to effectively teach via pre-recorded video, how to leverage social media and so on.

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thought that churches would reopen in the fall. Now, optimistic leaders are planning for Christmas services, others are predicting a return in January, and still others have already written off all of 2021.

This shift in perspective has so many implications on how we organize church, use (or abandon?) our buildings, who we hire and how we understand global (digital?) missions. Most important, it requires you to reflect on what you’re doing and how you’re doing it – and ask if something needs to shift.

If “normal” is that far in the future, then the longing to get things back to the way they were will only result in frustration (for you and your congregation) and will ultimately lead to irrelevance.

In fact, I wonder if we’re at risk of repeating Israel’s mistake of romanticising the past by craving for cucumbers and leeks instead of eating the manna the Lord has provided (Numbers 11:4-15).

And you know how that turned out: an entire generation wandered aimlessly in the desert instead of receiving the promise.

The bottom line is that I think this is just the beginning of another major disruption in how we fulfill the Great Commission – and that’s really disconcerting. If you are feeling overwhelmed, unprepared or exhausted at the prospect of rethinking and relearning ministry I want to leave you with two scriptures that are in tension with one another and true at the same time:

So, what’s a pastor to do? I’ve asked myself the same question and came to some unsettling conclusions.

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For I am about to do something new.

See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?

I will make a pathway through the wilderness.

I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. …

20b Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed.

- Isaiah 43:19-20

I will not wait for the past to return. Ministry will not look like it did in 2019 and what worked then will not work now or in the future.

I will not accept the idea of a “new normal.” Normal suggests that doing ministry will eventually settle into a predictable pattern. Change is the constant and effective pastors and leaders are resilient and flexible.

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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

So do not be attracted by strange, new ideas. Your strength comes from God’s grace …

- Hebrews 13:8-9a 9

I will choose innovation over preservation. Preservation is easy whereas innovation requires the exercise of holy creativity. Innovation suggests prayerful experimentation with Great Commission strategies.

Obviously, the context of both passages is important, but I hope the point is clear: God is leading us into uncharted territory which requires us to do new things to reach new people.

But God’s grace remains. He will provide all we need to accomplish all he has called us to do. “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” (Galatians 6:9)

I will embrace both/and thinking. Ministry is analog AND digital; the Spirit works through in-person ministry AND online ministry. BOTH strategies are effective.

Practically speaking, this shift means I have to stop moaning about preaching to a camera or grumbling about another Zoom meeting. It also means that I can’t solely rely on skills I have developed over almost 30 years of in-person ministry (i.e. preaching to a live audience, connecting with guests in the lobby, meeting people for coffee). I have to continue to hone those

If you want to explore these ideas further – and how they impact your church or ministry – I would be happy to connect with you personally or lead a discussion with your leadership (volunteers, staff, board, etc.). Feel free to contact me by emailing len@bc.paoc.org.

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Seth Greenham | Director of University Christian Ministries intentional one-on-one discipleship relationships, leading student executives, doing personal evangelism, and leading and participating in local and foreign missions trips, all while taking their degree. A large part of their spiritual growth and service comes from being given an opportunity to lead as well as the training and supervision to flourish in these opportunities.

This Fall will be a challenge as our “on-campus” communities deal with COVID-19 protocols, but, we will continue to equip university students by giving opportunities to lead virtual small groups, virtual Alpha’s, virtual prayer meetings, and participation in virtual intentional discipleship relationships. If you have a young adult heading to post-secondary school in BC this Fall, check out our website at www.joinucm.org and select a campus to connect your student with our campus staff.

When I think about my journey to become a Campus Pastor, I think about the many in Christian leadership who gave me an opportunity to practice ministry. I preached my first message (badly) at a youth rally at the age of 16, lead my first song service at youth the same year, ran the soundboard, regularly shared my testimony, lead a prayer meeting, and lead my first small group.

I was not a ministerial protégé, nor was I leading exceptionally among my peers. What was unique was the opportunity in my local church for youth to be equipped and given an opportunity to lead. When I think of leadership development, I always think about being given an opportunity because of that experience.

When I came to University Christian Ministries (UCM) in the mid -nineties, one of the things that resonated with me was the opportunity and expectation that university students would lead spiritually. At UCM, students are trained and then deployed on campus into leading a small group, leading Alpha, leading

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Darcy McAlister | PAOC Global Worker Covid-19 has been a journey. For Leanne and me, we have already gone through it twice, and by the time you read this we will be back in Asia and through quarantine yet again. So much of this year has been out of our control, and it can feel like all of our well-laid plans are going awry.

covid-flavoured bad news, I had had enough and went to our little living room and turned on my Spotify worship playlist and began to intercede. As my perspective changed, I felt the Lord say, “Today is breakthrough Thursday. If you look for me today, you will see me and what I am doing in all kinds of ways today.”

Leanne and I began to ask the Lord to show us how He was working on that particular Thursday, and we began to notice all the ways the Lord was leading, speaking, and moving. We began to shift from a morning of asking God to move to thanking God for what He was already doing. He was at work!

In the middle of this topsy-turvy year, Leanne and I have relearned a few things which we thought we knew but needed to be brought to the forefront again.

We relearned how Jesus is the centre. And if he is the center, then we need to live as if he is at that center! This means a perspective change for us.

Leanne and I have been together all year. I think we may break our record for days and hours spent in each other’s company this year! As the hours together have increased, we worried we would start to get on each other’s nerves. And, believe me, we have apologized to each other more during this year of cultural adjustment, change and covid stress than in any other year. But we have also grown in our relationship with each other and with our external friendships. We are quick to pray with each other and ask Holy Spirit to speak to us. We have been re-learning the value of walking the Christian life with others. Leanne and I build each other up. And in our family and friendships we have seen the blessing of what support in the body of Christ looks like.

God is good, and we can serve Him together. The pursuit of Jesus is not a ‘lone’ pursuit. When God blesses, His blessings don’t just stick with a single person, they multiply through Christian community. When one falls, another helps them up.

As Ken Russell says, “we are better together,” and it is true.

Revelation 1:15 says, in the middle of a kaistic list, that the voice of Jesus is the sound of many rushing waters. When you stand next to a waterfall, all you can hear is the roar of the water.

The sound drowns everything else out! Jesus’ voice is meant to be at the center of our lives, drowning out all the newscasts, prognosticators, cultural experts, politicians. This does not mean we do not hear them, but rather we listen to them through the filter of Christ at our center.

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In a pandemic, we can easily turn on the news first and then later head to God’s word for our personal devotions. Living in Asia, we would wake up to a full day of North American news and commentary with questions from friends all at once. We had to relearn to begin our day focusing on God’s voice and His presence.

In the middle of covid, and in the middle of blowing up our lives and moving to Asia, we are thankful for the things we are learning all over again. If you would like to explore more of what we have been learning in this season, check out www.relateleadership.com and our 21 Day Relational Challenge.

We’ve been taking this year to read the Bible from cover to cover together in our Bible app with devotionals by Nicky and Pippa Gumbel. God speaks to us through His word daily and shifts our perspective to looking at him first.

Darcy and Leanne McAlister are global workers with PAOC working in Asia and leading ZOE Network. They split their time between Asia and Canada and are new grandparents!

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Mark Lewis | Assistant District Superintendent for Revitalization “If only…” Two words that without a doubt have passed over the lips of many of us. I found myself just recently whispering them. “If only I had that new iPhone, everything would be better, I could take better pictures, I could organize my life better: I could easily fix all my scheduling, design, and planning needs, all with one simple fix.” When my wife saw the longing on my face she immediately said ”stop coveting!” Coveting? I’m not coveting; I’m realizing how much better I could do my job with that. Then a small shiver of guilt swept over me - covet: “to yearn to possess, to desire, crave, want or wish for.” Wow! My wife was right.

us out on coveting! “You must not covet your neighbour’s house… you must not covet your neighbour’s wife, male or female servant ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.”

Some of us easily dismiss the tenth commandment because it deals with “ox, donkey, servants” and the like - I don’t want any of that! But look how interesting the last verse in that passage is; God closes the loophole that we might try to sneak through. “…or anything that belongs to your neighbour.” That’s a wide brush stroke, and it makes sure that we don’t just think in material terms. It could be other peoples success, abilities or the situation or career they’re in.

The truth is, all of us at times have seasons of discontentment; unhappiness with what we have, where we live, even who we are. Now don’t get me wrong, discontentment isn’t always bad.

Unhappiness with your level of commitment to God or your degree of faithfulness - those are good things to be discontent with. But there is a dark side to discontentment and we’re all vulnerable to it. It’s a longing that says, “if only.” If only I had what they have, if only my church was like that, if only my volunteers were that passionate, if only the offering was bigger, if only I was in that situation… it can go on and on.

This commandment is just a bit different than many of the others because it deals with the heart. It deals with inward thoughts.

For so many the answer to discontentment is to fill the void with something you don’t have. With this approach, we can be just as depressed, just as empty, and just as discontent as before when we don’t get what others have, and possibly even if we do.

The problem: we’re looking for contentment in the wrong place.

A simple but often overlooked truth is this: the only place that we will ever find contentment is in Christ. Not in things, not in situations, not is success, not people and not even in ministry.

True contentment can only be found in our convictions.

Look what author Rob Kuhn in his book, “Christ Centered Contentment” says:

Sadly, discontentment is a regularly reinforced idea in our culture.

All of us will never be content unless we get what we want, when we want it, and how we want it. Ultimately, if it’s not the right fulfilled desire, it will leave us unsatisfied.

Exodus 20 :17 (NLT) addresses discontentment this way: it calls

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circumstances to govern our sense of contentment.

True Biblical contentment is a conviction that Christs power, purpose and provision is sufficient for every circumstance.

We are to learn how to walk through all kinds of adversity, believing in and experiencing Christs sufficiency. We have to choose to Rest on God’s promises despite what may be going on in our lives.”

I know that this is not how we see the culture around us respond to discontentment, but it’s our calling to be set apart and to show your church, your community, and your family a different way to think and act.

Romans 12:2 (NLT): “Don’t copy the behaviours and customs of

this world, but let God transform you into a new person, by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know Gods will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.”

If this understanding isn’t part of our DNA, we will always be in a season of discontent. When we don’t fall prey to this type of coveting, God offers opportunities to show us once again that HE, and only HE, fills our needs.

I never did get that brand-new iPhone. An older model will have to do, but better yet, my fulfillment, my contentment, my joy it’s all in Christ.

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Allen de Jong | Youth, Young Adults and Family Ministries Director For those who don’t know me yet, I am a sports fan. More specifically, I’m a BIG basketball fan. So, as you can imagine, I am thrilled that the NBA has recently begun their COVID-inspired summer league. But while the NBA and other major sports leagues are just picking up where COVID cut them off, other leagues, like the English Premier League, have already wrapped up. One of my best friends is a diehard soccer - or for our European readers, ‘football’ - fan, and having grown up in Liverpool, he was particularly pleased with this year’s outcome (in case you don’t follow soccer, Liverpool won!). Now, if you’ve ever watched English soccer, you may have noticed that each team has a motto; a simple phrase fans use to help cheer their team on. If you were to attend a game in person, you would most likely be welcomed to the stadium by a slew of obnoxious fans chanting their team’s motto, over and over. You would continue to hear these words throughout the game, and undoubtedly hear them all the way back to your vehicle afterwards. These are words that the fans live by; anthems that, over time, become a culture. For Liverpool, their motto is: “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

bring me back to. When I began my first few years in youth ministry, I began to notice a pattern in the students who stuck around, and conversely, those who did not. I saw that the students who regularly attended our ministry seemed to have a solid connection with someone in our group. Whether it was a fellow student, leader, or me as the pastor, these students had a relationship which tethered them to something bigger than themselves. Because of this, it didn’t matter if they were churched, unchurched, backslidden, depressed, or just being an angsty teenager. Because they were connected, they ‘never had to walk alone.’ These were the students that thrived as they grew up. Regardless of where they were at with God when they first came to youth, they kept coming back. Because they kept coming back, they kept hearing about Jesus. Eventually, they met Jesus.

This principle doesn’t just apply to students; we see it in church leadership as well. Having been in ministry for well over a decade now, I’ve had the opportunity to rub shoulders with many other pastors throughout the years. Unfortunately, a few of those leaders are no longer serving in full-time ministry. In fact, some of them rarely even step foot in a church building anymore. I often wonder what it is that steals away this passion from so many.

Is it the long hours, or the seemingly impossible-to-meet expectations of others? Is it the money, knowing that similar

These are words that I have tried to live by in my ministry for years. It seems every pastor has a particular message that is unearthed in his/her heart as the years go by, and for me, the message of CONNECTION is something God always seems to 8

longevity in ministry. In my own experience, if I didn’t have other

wages could be earned in a much less demanding job? Is it a “bad experience”? Is it anxiety, depression, or some scandalous, hidden sin? I guess each person’s story is different. What I do know is this: at some point in their ministry lives, most of these pastors probably made a decision to walk alone. When we walk alone, we become an easier target. Most of us have probably preached this concept and used the classic National Geographic illustration, painting a picture of the African lion as it tries to separate that one, helpless victim from the herd. But, at times, how many of us end up just like that poor little antelope, separated from the herd and getting eaten alive (excuse the graphic hyperbole)? The point is, we need healthy relationships in ministry. Indeed, I would propose the idea that building healthy,

friends in ministry to challenge and encourage me through seasons of frustration, confusion, anxiety, and burnout, I wouldn’t still be in ministry today.

When I was first being considered for this role at District Office, I got excited, knowing that in this role I would have the opportunity to help pastors struggling in this area. My hope and my prayer for leaders in the BCYD is that they would seek - and find - meaningful, encouraging relationships that help to sustain them in the ups and downs of ministry. I want to make sure that they are cared for, and that they would “never walk alone.” I’m honoured to serve in this position, and I’m believing for great things to come! God bless!

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Harold Gutierrez | Director of International and Indigenous Ministries In the last couple of months, we have been bombarded by rhetoric and images of protestors with "Black Lives Matters" signs.

The murder of an African American man at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer has moved people to speak up about racial issues. Typically, this would be a conversation that would not go beyond the United States. However, the influence of social media today has made the subject of discrimination against black people a matter of debate throughout the world. There have been protests in the streets of cities like Vancouver and London, England; athletes have used their platform to keep the injustices against black people at the centre of our attention.

The extent of this issue makes it necessary that the Christian community of a cosmopolitan country like Canada find a balanced voice when addressing these matters.

importance of speaking against racism at this hour. However, finding an appropriate tone is very important if we are genuinely going be ministers of reconciliation as the Scriptures calls us to be (2 Corinthians 5:19). Let me offer you two angles that will help you take a stand in a spiritually positive way: I. Change the "grassroots" for "spiritual roots" in your message.

The topics of racism and the fight of social justice have sparked a myriad of grassroots movements that seek to push a political agenda and censor everyone who offers a different point of view.

It is sad that something as historically hurtful as racism has become the monopoly of those who are motivated by political interests today.

This chaotic environment offers the opportunity for the Christian community to speak for and stand with those who have been the victims of racist slurs, discriminatory remarks, and similar acts in a way that will heal their wounds and create a positive impact rather than make them more resentful.

The problem is exacerbated by the fact that those who have been the loudest voices to speak up have political interests, and in some cases, anarchic intentions as the primary motivating factor for their activism. This makes responding to this social crisis something complex for a lot of churches and people at large in the Christian community.

If someone speaks out about racism, they can be judged as someone who sides with activists who use incidents of racial discrimination as the perfect excuse to loot and riot. If someone keeps quiet or calls for a more measured form of activism, they can be seen as insensitive and called racist.

Racism did not begin in Minneapolis. It began in Eden where pride and hatred began to ravage this world. The spiritual roots that lead a person to look down on someone of a different colour of skin are the things that we must condemn as a

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Christian community. It is easy to be led to think that speaking towards these issues makes you choose sides within a volatile environment. However, when we speak about racism, we should do so out of a posture of crying out for justice for a world that was robbed of it by sin.

force that can enrich the narrative and the success of our churches beyond Sundays.

Our stance in matters of racism and injustices should be more about finding ways where our churches can intersect with the needs of the various cultural groups, and become a life-giving presence to combat any oppression or injustice. We must diligently strive to overcome the negative force of racism by operating as an institution where everyone has a place to be and thrive.

By focusing on the spiritual roots of racist acts, historical and current, we have the opportunity to establish a position of equality that relates to our mandate as Christians to love people regardless of race. It will also allow us to reassure those in our congregation who have been victim to racist acts or have been profiled on the street of our support and commitment to providing a church environment that is welcoming for them and their families.

These are a couple of things that should be part of our response to the current racial climate in North America. As Canada becomes more multicultural, incidents motivated by racial discrimination could become inevitable. Thus, we should be proactive to teach our leaders about race relations, celebrating diversity, and building together a multicultural paradigm in our local churches.

II. Make your message louder through positive actions If we limit our response to only words when racism hit the headlines, or to hashtags on our social media outlets, we are just putting a bandage over the wound. Actions must always follow a verbal response. The best way to demonstrate that our churches are truly welcoming to people of other races is to be proactive at aiming at diversity. I believe the local church is the best place to cultivate unity and diversity. After all, the Bible points to a time where every nation, tongue, and tribe will stand before God in perpetual worship (Revelation 7:9).

I believe this topic is something that should be explored more in-depth. Connect with us to find more useful resources that could serve as a starting point to develop a multicultural paradigm for your leadership team and church vision.

The concept of diversity is often over-idealized and undermaterialized. We celebrate demographic diversity when we notice people of different races attending a Sunday service.

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