Is your Church in Need of a Checkup?

Most of us wouldn’t skip an annual health checkup. Even when we feel fine, we trust the value of taking time to ensure everything’s working as it should. Churches need the same kind of intentional care. A way to confront reality, strengthen what’s going well, and instill hope for the future.

What if your church isn’t as healthy as you think?
Or what if it’s doing better than you realize - but you're unsure how to build on that momentum?

A Fellowship Pacific Church Consultation helps your church step back, reflect, and realign with what God is doing in and through your ministry.

On March 29, 2025, youth leaders from around Fellowship Pacific gathered for a truly meaningful day at the RENEW Conference - a one-day event created to refresh, equip, and encourage those on the front lines of youth ministry. And we’re thrilled to say that it was such a success that we’re doing it again!

Welcome Our New Regional Director.

At our opening banquet for Impact 2025: New Ground, we embraced the opportunity to welcome our incoming Regional Director, Brent Chapman, and his wife, Pam! Their arrival marks an exciting new chapter, and it was a joy to celebrate this moment together at Impact.

Calling Canadian Christian Women: New research project needs your input!

Canadian Christian women care deeply about their faith and living it out. But anecdotes and academic discussions dominate our understanding of how most women participate in the church. We’re looking to survey Christian women who attend or have attended an Evangelical church in Canada. Fellowship Pacific has teamed up with 13 other ministries to understand trends in women’s participation and their future in the church.

The official launch of the Journey of Hope campaign is on April 6!

This is your reminder that Fellowship Pacific has qualified coaches ready to support and encourage you as you lead in your church.

Here’s what some people have said about how coaching has helped them:

• “When I am doing regular coaching, I am able to think and speak clearly what I want to say in the moment with other people I work with.”

• “It’s helped me get to the bottom of why I feel stressed and anxious and take steps to connect with God and others for help.”

• “I was new to my role and our church was going through some tough times. Coaching helped me make good decisions, lead the team well and plan better for the future.”

At Fellowship Pacific, we receive amazing updates of how God is working through our church plants.

We want you to have more access to these growing communities so together we can celebrate, pray, and support them as we see lives transformed for His glory. We invite you to explore our Fellowship Pacific Church Planting webpage.

To the Leaders of our Fellowship Pacific Family,

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am writing on behalf of our Regional Board to formally let you know that we have taken steps to ensure a successful succession plan for the Regional Director of Fellowship Pacific, David Horita. David had informed us at the beginning of his last contract period that he would not be renewing again at the end of this contract, feeling that it is time to make the changes necessary to set up the Fellowship for its next era of ministry.

Happy 2025 to each of you in Fellowship Pacific!

It is great to enter into another year of service together with you, seeking tangible and meaningful Kingdom outcomes that will honor our Lord and God. It is a blessing to join with you in ministry.

However, while it is truly fulfilling to be “appointed to his service” as per Paul in 1 Timothy 1:12, we also know that there are challenges in that service. While true, I sometimes wonder whether anything in the nature of those challenges has actually changed or will change in 2025.

There is a tendency for many of us to resolutely accept that the world has gotten worse or more adversarial to the gospel that we love and preach. Sure, there are all kinds of indicators that our country is less “Christian” than it once was, but please allow me to at least question whether or not this assumption is actually true. You may well disagree with me, but it is harder for some than others to not ask questions about our assumptions! That certainly includes me. But feel free to engage the conversation in the discussion section of the Commons, our Fellowship network.

Hello Fellowship Pacific! We want to keep you in the loop about staffing changes that are occurring at the Fellowship Ministry Centre, specifically that Dr. Mike Mawhorter has stepped down from his role on the Connect team, effective the end of 2024.

Some of you may be aware that Mike joined the team in 2019, with an expectation that he would be helping out for an interim period. Mike proved to be such a great addition to our team that his time with us ended up lasting over 5 years.

What an inspiring milestone! Seven more graduates have launched into ministry, marking the 10th graduation for Fellowship Pacific's Immerse program. Since the program’s inception, Immerse students have grown through a unique blend of theology, leadership, and practical ministry, all within the nurturing environment of the local church. They truly embody Christ’s vision for leaders in His church.

This past month, several staff teams from within our Fellowship Pacific family of churches participated in the Safe Sanctuaries Seminar: Nurturing a Culture of Safety and Dignity in the Church. This seminar, led by Lorrie Wasyliw, Executive Director of WINGS Fellowship (Women In Need Gaining Strength), provides in-person training to church leaders, drawing on Lorrie's extensive advocacy work for victims of abuse.