Vision and Purpose

5 Ways To Make Easter Weekend More Meaningful

As you likely know, the most powerful commemoration of God’s love we share as Christians is almost here.  Good Friday services are tomorrow, and Easter Sunday is this weekend! I hope these will be an incredibly meaningful time for you and your family and friends. We’d love to help with that.  Good Friday and Easter Sunday are […]

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9 Reasons We Do Church The Way We Do at Connexus

We get questions about why we do church the way we do all the time. Why the band? Why the lights? How come the preacher is so ‘clear’ (as opposed to being more traditionally unclear)? Why do you emphasize kids and student ministry so much? While our approach raises some great questions, it also seems

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5 Tips to Help Your Kids Survive Daylight Savings Time

 By Emily Bailey Daylight Savings is just around the corner, and if you’re like me you struggle to get a decent amount of shuteye. Losing an hour of sleep doesn’t make it any easier.  If it’s hard for you imagine what it would be like for your kids. You know what a change in schedule

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A Very Personal Moment for Me – And Some Information on Baptism for You

If you were at our Barrie Campus yesterday (we’ll share this moment on March 10th at our Orillia Campus), you know what a really special moment we marked yesterday for me personally. My wife Toni was baptized, and I had the privilege of baptizing her. You can watch Toni’s story and see the baptism here:

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What Subjects Would You Like Us To Tackle in our 2013 Series?

  We’re on the beginning of a brand new year, and I’d love to know what subjects, issues and scripture passages you might love to see us address in our weekend series in 2013. Yep, you can put us on the hotseat! While I have the first quarter laid out already…the rest of the year

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The New Connexus App – Our Free Christmas Gift for You

There’s an app for everything, including Connexus! If you missed this morning, don’t miss our free gift to you. The Connexus app gives you easy access to almost everything Connexus – our messages in HD video, audio versions (for your workouts), key features of our website, weekly feeds our our small group questions and much

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5 Days Till Christmas Eve and Tickets are Going Fast!

There is nothing more I would like than for all of your friends and family to be able to join us Christmas Eve. I think this Christmas Eve will be our best Christmas Eve service yet. And we’ve made more room than ever before, hosting six services on Christmas Eve between our locations. If you

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Hey Connexus: Thanks a Ton (of Food!!)

  Connexus, thanks a ton! Literally. (Even a little more than a ton!) You gave 2,660 lbs of food in yesterday’s food drive! We brought 1000 lbs of food to the Salvation Army in Orillia and 1660 lbs of food to the Barrie Foodbank yesterday in our Bold Food Drive. In addition to that, you gave

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The Newtown School Tragedy and The Mission of the Church

Connexus friends. I wrote this post for my personal blog but wanted to post it here. I couldn’t be more grateful for the way so many of you serve, give, pray, and invite week in and week out. You are truly making the world a different and better place by what you do. – Carey

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