Ep. 23 | Pandemic Planting: God’s continued faithfulness to church planters in the pandemic w/ David Adkins, Kolby Milton, & Harrison Kwok
Starting a church can be difficult at the best of times. Imagine starting a church without the normal opportunities of meeting face to face? Try building community and trust in an environment that hasn’t really had much of a chance to do so. What are the odds of success? How do church planters respond? Do they bend? Break? Or burst through?
Have a listen to three God stories, through three church plants, led by three planters, David Adkins (Village Church Abbotsford), Harrison Kwok (Northern Collective Church), and Kolby Milton (Live Free Church). God is at work. The newly planted church is his vessel. At Fellowship Pacific we choose to burst through revealing God’s greatness and beauty!
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Gospel Fluency (Jeff Vanderstelt)
The Honest Guide to Church Planting (Tom Bennardo)
Establish Series (Ethnos Canada)
DAVID ADKINS
David is originally from London, UK. He was involved with a large international church planting movement there before he emigrated to Canada 15yrs ago with his wife Chrissy and their 3 kids. They spent five years in Burlington, Ontario with a church plant and the last 10 years in BC.
He is the lead Pastor of Village Abbotsford, which is part of a multisite network of seven trans-Canadian churches.
KOLBY MILTON
Kolby was born and raised in Kelowna. He has a Masters Degree from Northwest Baptist Seminary and has spent the past 15 years as a Pastor.
Kolby has been married 15 years to his wife Lori, who is a Registered Nurse. They have three awesome kids—Beckett is 10, Estelle is 8, and Evie is 6.
As a family, they love to spend the summers on the beach at gyro, or in the winter at Big White.
HARRISON KWOK
Harrison was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon after his parents immigrated there from Hong Kong over 40 years ago. He has three daughters and is married to Kaitlyn.
Harrison is the lead pastor of the Northern Collective Church and just started his doctorate of ministry at Northwest Baptist Seminary.