Simply Missional

In this episode, Byron Grant shares about his 40+ years of living and ministering among his first nations brothers and sisters in Vancouver, Canada. With joy and compassion, Byron unpacks why first nations people experience such difficulty in reconciling their culture and history to Christianity and the Church, much of it owing to the trauma experienced in Canada’s residential school system. He encourages us to take the time to listen more to the rich stories that First Nations people love to tell,

Joben David is the Executive Director of Jacob’s Well, a faith based non-profit located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver (DTES) with a rich history.In this episode, Joben shares about the Jacob’s Well community that he leads in Vancouver’s DTES and the challenges associated with this role. He explains how their welcome mat doesn’t stop at the door but extends to under their table, where Jesus is already sitting! He questions our motivation to rescue the poor, as it may actually be us who are in

In this episode, Preston Gordon shares about his own unusual calling into the Anglican church, his journey into liturgy and how it ‘tells the story’, and becoming ‘Anglicans on mission’.Preston Gordon is the Associate Pastor at St. Peters Fireside in downtown Vancouver, a thriving, urban church plant with the Anglican network (ANiC). Preston and his wife Deanna are originallyfrom the US and moved to Vancouver in 2013 where they immediately joined the church. You will want to hear this episode if

In this episode, Australian born Emma Narayanan shares how surrendering everything to God in her teenage years has led her on this incredible church planting journey to Vancouver, Canada. In pastoring church plants in three different locations, she shares insights into how to engage, disciple and mentor millennials, how to do mission within the coffee culture, and also emphasizes the need for boomers to come alongside and help build intergenerational community to become biblically literate

Simply Missional is brought to you by Global Disciples Canada, and hosted by Cat Pienaar, a church planter in North Vancouver. GDC is a non-profit that believe it’s the Jesus-followers who need to respond to the injustice that one third of our world (or 3 billion people) have never heard the good news of Jesus in a language or context that they can understand. For over 25 years Global Disciples has been training and equipping indigenous leaders and church planters to go and make disciples in least