We’ve gone beyond the day where we build a building and people will come. Church buildings don’t necessarily attract and increasingly I find congregations are saying it’s when we go out of the building that we are church.

The question we constantly ask ourselves is: What is God calling us to do here? How do we read the signs of the times (Matthew 16:3) in our city in light of the biblical and reformed tradition on which we stand?

Both churches have faced similar challenges. Why is one still open and the other not? Here, I believe, are some pertinent elements.

Everywhere I look in the church today, I see congregations struggling to survive. What, I ask myself, does this mean for God’s church? Has God abandoned the church?

Music, food, face – painting, balloons and bubbles floating on the breeze, tents and stalls along the pathways, crowds of people glad to be together in the sunshine. It didn’t feel like General Assembly at all.

If the Pre-Assembly Workshop are like squares on a quilt, worship is the thread holding the fabric in place, connecting square to square and filling […]

What does the demolition of a church building mean, theologically and personally? In the winter of 2011, the building that once housed Summerside Presbyterian Church […]