Jump Starting Multi-Ethnic Mission: A New Breath for Cross-Cultural Ministries
啟動多元族裔福音工作：為跨文化事工注入新氣息
September 29-30, 2023, 9:00 am to 3:30 pm each day
Anglican Network Church of the Good Shepherd, Vancouver
189 West 11th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Y 1S8
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*We are currently allowing a maximum of 150 Registrants to the conference.*
Conference Schedule
| Time | Friday, September 29 | Saturday, September 30 |
| 9:00 am– 9:30 am | Group Fellowship Time with Coffee, Tea and Snacks |
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| 9:30 am– 10:00 am | Morning Prayer | |
| 10:00 am– 10:45 am | “Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will Be Done”
Archbishop Robert Duncan |
“Making Christian Mission a 2-Way Street: A Historical Reflection on Missiological Approaches towards Cross-cultural Mission to the Chinese”
The Rev. Dr. Joyce Chan |
| 10:45 am– 11:00 am | Break | |
| 11:00 am– 11:45 am | The Biblical Reason for Every Tribe, Tongue, People and Nation Bishop Alan Hawkins |
“Global Christianity and North American Mission: An Exploration in Theological Geography” Bishop Grant LeMarquand |
| 11:45 am– Noon | Break | |
| Noon– 1:00 pm | Panel Discussion
Moderated by Bishop Stephen LeungBishop Ron FerrisMs. Joyce Lee |
Panel Discussion
Moderated by SK YungVen. Dr. Barnabas C. EmenoguRev. Angus Wu |
| 1:00 pm– 2:00 pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00 pm– 3:30 pm |
Brain Storming Session
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Holy Communion ServiceBishop Daniel Gifford (Preacher & Blessing)
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| 3:30 pm | End of Day Session | |
Special Free Evening Session
“Why I am an Anglican? Why I am still an Anglican?”
Rev. Chad Block, Rev. Paul & Elena Shen,
Archbishop Robert Duncan, Rev. Jordan Senner
7 pm to 8:30 pm, Friday, September 29, 2023
Anglican Network Church of the Good Shepherd, Vancouver
189 West 11th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 1S8
Conference Fees
| Regular Rate starting August 16, 2023
$80 Adult |
Payment Method
- E-transfer to donations@ammic.ca,
Please note it is for “2023 Ministry Conference” - Cheque (Payable to “AMMiC”),
sent to #160-4611 No. 6 Road, Richmond, B6V 2L3
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We are currently allowing a maximum of 150 Registrants to the conference.
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Anglican Network in Canada INCREASE CONFERENCE
The Anglican Network in Canada is having a special one-day INCREASE Intensive focused on Church Planting Thursday, September 28th, 2023. INCREASE gatherings are to help equip and network church lay leaders, new ordinands and those curious about ordination. Church planting is one of our diocesan top priorities and we’re excited to delve more into the topic together. To register and for more information, visit https://www.anglicannetwork.ca/increase-conference.
AMMiC Ministry Conference Speakers and Talk Information
Archbishop Robert Duncan
Archbishop Emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America
Archbishop Robert (Bob) Duncan, is the Archbishop Emeritus of the Anglican Church in North America and a founding bishop of the ACNA. Recently celebrating 50 years of ordained ministry, Archbishop Bob served for twenty years as Bishop of Pittsburgh. He has devoted himself to mission and evangelism, with a special passion for reaching adolescents and young adults, for ministry to the poor and otherwise forgotten, for creative church-planting (Anglican 1000) and for encouraging church leaders (both lay and ordained.) He also authored the Preface to the Book of Common Prayer (2019) and chaired the effort that produced our Prayer Book.
“Archbishop Duncan has been a global leader since Lambeth ’98. His Grace was a driving force in the creation of the Anglican Relief and Development Fund (2004), a GAFCON Primate (2009-2014), deputy chair of the committee that wrote the Cairo Covenant of Global South Anglicans (2017-2019) and a great friend of ANiC and AMMiC. He has proven to be an extraordinary yet humble leader at a critical moment in Church history. Married to Nara for fifty-four years (they met at youth group), Anglican House has recently published an autobiography entitled Safe for A Week – Autobiographical Essays on the Lord’s Trustworthiness.
Talk: “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done”
Summary: The conference theme is “Jump Starting Multi-Ethnic Mission: A New Breath for Cross-Cultural Mission.” Archbishop Bob – as he is known – will lay a foundation for the Biblical and dominical imperative for multi-ethnic mission and for the rightness of a Church committed to cross-cultural ministry and fellowship.
His Grace will also ask some difficult questions. He will ask them gently, but firmly, as he often does. “Are we doing what we are doing the way WE prefer to do it?” or “Are we asking how GOD would have us do it?” In seeking to do God’s will and to build Christ’s kingdom are we “Doing it MY way?” or Doing it the LORD’S way?” Two words are particularly problematic in this regard: ANGLICAN and AFFINITY. For some we would reach “Anglican” is a great word with a noble history, yet for many immigrants and cultures we seek to reach “Anglican” suggests a dark colonial past. In a different way, “affinity” suggests to an ethnic minority being part of a majority culture in at least one important context. To those in the majority culture, however, “affinity” will suggest separation or an unwillingness to blend in. The Anglican Network in Canada has to ask herself questions about the use of both these words – especially as concerns her ever-increasing (and especially Asian) immigrant minorities. And these questions are not for Canada alone.
As the “father” of Anglican 1000 – the church-planting call that in many ways defined his five years as first archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America – Abp. Bob will tell stories of evangelized cultures, and of God’s purposes in reaching and sustaining those who are “different” to build a Kingdom that is trans-national, trans-cultural, and trans-temporal, yet united by Christ and in Christ.
Abp. Duncan will help us to understand that, among other things, what we daily pray in the Lord’s Prayer turns out to be a prayer for the Church’s cross-cultural mission and for the Kingdom’s multi-ethnic vision.
Bishop Alan Hawkins
Chief Operating Officer of the Anglican Church in North America
Bishop Alan Hawkins is the Chief Operating Officer of the Anglican Church in North America. He serves in his capacity as the leader for the Major Initiatives of the Province including the Every Tribe and Nation Initiative (ETNI).
Alan will be the Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of Christ Our Hope in November of 2024 and has advocated for a great commitment to seeing this diocese reflect the goal of leaders and churches co-laboring together from all the beautiful tribes, tongues, people and nations in our midst. Christ Our Hope has 6 congregations with leadership from minority culture leaders with more on the way. He is a gradate of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC and has served in full-time Christian ministry since 1993.
He is married to Angela Kaye and they have 2 grown children and three children still in High School (and two Labra-Doodles).
Hawkins has previously served as the Network Leader for Church Planting in GAFCON and as the Planting Rector of Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro NC.
Talk: “The Biblical Reason for Every Tribe, Tongue, People and Nation”
Summary: TBD
Bishop Grant LeMarquand
Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity School of Ministry
Grant LeMarquand is a graduate of McGill University and of Wycliffe College, Toronto where he completed his Th.D. in New Testament studies. He has taught Biblical Studies and Mission in Canada, Kenya, the USA, Egypt, and Ethiopia. From 2012 – 2018 Grant was the Area Bishop for The Horn of Africa within the Anglican / Episcopal Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa. His episcopal area included oversight of approximately 150 churches in the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Ethiopia. He has written and edited numerous articles and books, including Why Haven’t You Left? Letters from the Sudan (Church Publications) and A Comparative Study of the Story of the Bleeding Woman in North Atlantic and African Contexts (Peter Lang). Bishop LeMarquand and his wife Wendy, who is a medical doctor, are both Canadians. They have two grown children and one grandchild.
Talk: “Global Christianity and North American Mission: An Exploration in Theological Geography”
Summary: Over the last two hundred years, the church has expanded numerically, geographically and culturally – Christians can be found in virtually every place on the planet. This talk will explore some of the things we can learn about the gospel, the mission of the church – and about God himself – from our brothers and sisters around the globe.
The Rev. Dr. Joyce Chan
Principal and Director of D.Min. Program at Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver
Rev. Dr. Joyce Chan is an old friend of AMMiC. She received her M.Div. from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary (now Gateway Seminary) and her Ph.D. in Religion (Historical Studies) from Baylor University. She is the ordained minister of the CBWC (Canadian Baptists of Western Canada). She served at Carey Theological College for 19 years in both teaching and administrative roles and will begin her role as the Principal and Director of D.Min. Program at the Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver effective August 1, 2023. Her teaching areas include church history, spiritual formation, and worship studies. Her research interest focuses on documenting major movements and biographical stories of the Chinese Canadian immigrant churches. Dr. Chan is currently pursuing her continuing education at the Vancouver Art Therapy Institute. She hopes to integrate art therapy, theological reflection and spiritual formation to promote emotional health and holistic education in both pastoral and lay training.
Talk: Making Christian Mission a 2-way Street: A Historical Reflection on Missiological Approaches towards Cross-cultural Mission to the Chinese
Summary: Introduction: A Korean seminary graduates’ wake up call
Case study #1: Early Chinese Mission in Canada
Case Study #2: The “Name of God” Controversy in Chinese Bible Translation
Case study #3: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits in China
Points of Reflection:
To “Christianize” = to “Westernize” = to “Civilize”? Is there such a thing as the “white gospel”? Does true conversion require cultural genocide?
What does it mean to “becoming all things to all people?” – what is the limit to contextualization?
Mission, Church and Politics – re-creating Christendom? what is the goal of Christian mission?
Implications to discipleship and leadership training
Conclusion: Towards a Post-Christendom, Post-colonial and Post-denominational Christian Mission – Making Christian Mission a 2-way street