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–>I just so deeply hope you’ll be at tomorrow morning’s launch meeting at 10:00 a.m. at the Galaxy Cinemas in Orillia at WestRidge Place. Tomorrow’s meeting will really mark the beginning of what will be an incredible few weeks of activity that will lead to the launch of Connexus within five weeks.  Can you believe […]

"Our locations might be temporary, but our ministry is any but!" –> Over the last couple weeks I’ve been working with my daughter, Haley, on her grade two project on the Monarch Butterfly.  She has done a great job putting together a display and presentation that explains the incredible change that the Monarch caterpillar goes

–>I get excited when leaders get together.  There is nothing like a group of people pooling their time and energy and strength together to achieve a common mission.  That’s what is forming the heart of the Connexus community.  As hundreds of us pool our time and talent as well as our resources together and submit

The launch of Connexus is less than six weeks away for Barrie, and seven weeks away for Orillia. Each of you reading this blog has a role to play in the next month to help the launch happen. Quite honestly, if our staff and elders all worked 24/7 until December 2nd with zero sleep and

–>What a great morning in Barrie!  Nearly 200 people gathered this morning in the cinema in Barrie to be part of the launch team for Barrie Campus of Connexus.  The excitement and the joy were pretty contagious.  And that’s just the people who could make it… At the meeting, we shared the vision and the

–>So tomorrow we finally have our first real opportunity to talk face to face about the launch of Connexus.  The December 2nd Barrie launch and the December 9th Orillia launch are just six and seven weeks away, and there’s so much to do in the meantime and so many ways for you to be involved. 

–>Want some great news?  Late yesterday afternoon we heard from our lawyers that our letters patent were approved by Industry Canada.  That means we are now legally incorporated as a charitable not-for-profit corporation (that’s government speak for church) with Industry Canada.  We exist!  How cool is that? We also ran into a bit of an

–>Great traffic on the blog this week, and thanks for the zillion comments. It’s great to see people get excited about a shared vision! I had a meeting last night at my house with about 20 potential Connexus leaders who were meeting for the first time and it was amazing!  People are so stoked, and

Thanks for your input on our logo last week.  A final decision will be announced shortly (we bought more time with our production people). Not only do we need a logo, we’d like a slogan.  A slogan is a way of identifying a church, product, or company in a few, simple words.  it should convey

–>You could really help with the launch of Connexus this week by telling all your friends who want to be part of Connexus to make sure they definitely attend one of our two critical launch meetings in the next fourteen days. Please plan on being at the Galaxy Cinema either in         Barrie