1. Forum on Church Planting by Mission Agencies in Canada
Models & Possibilities
April 12, 2001

2. Model One: Planting to One Denomination
Member Missions planting in the aboriginal community: (all with church planting focus and non-Pentecostal theology)
Interact Ministries of Canada
Interact Ministries
Indian Life Ministries
Northern Canada Evangelical Mission
NAIM Ministries
Impact North Ministries
Northern Youth Ministries
SEND of Alaska
UIM International
UIM International CDA
Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (the receiving denomination)

3. Model Two: Denominational Neutrality
Canadian Sunday School Mission
Ministry to Children: e.g. VBS, Sunday School, sport camps … starts a Sunday School
Ministry to Families leads to a worshiping community …
When worshipping community has 100 members the new congregation freely chooses its denominational affiliation

4. Model Three: Individual Partnerships
Navigators partner with Mennonite Brethren to begin church in Winnipeg
Navigator Ray Klassen plants, MB’s contribute to his support account
(Ray now heads MB’s “Missions and Church Extension” department in Manitoba)
Campus Crusade partners with Southern Baptists in Montreal to plant down-town, post-modern, bi-lingual youth church.

5. Other Possibilities
AIA Sport Camps offered in context of a denominational church planter’s strategy.
Missionary returning (for health, deputation or education reasons) partners to plant among people group with which they are now familiar.
Mission candidate partners with a denomination to plant in Canadian people group to which they will be sent.

6. Other Possibilities Alpha resources housechurch planting movement
Mission agencies could regularly join denominational catalyzers in Church Planting Canada regional meetings.