How You Can Help Haiti

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

The devestation we’re seeing in Haiti is overwhelming.  With as many as 100,000 people feared dead and 3,000,000 needing shelter, food or aid as a result of the quake, it’s a huge undertaking.
Connexus (through our Global X mission fund) is sending $3,000 directly toward relief efforts.  With matching funds announced today by the Canadian government, [...]

A Response to Haiti

Posted on 13. Jan, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

We are working on setting up a way to respond to the need in Haiti this morning.  We will certainly be supporting the relief effort in various ways and will get back to the blog later today with some ideas on how you can respond.
Thanks for the chance to do this together, to be the [...]

Thankful for You

Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, GroupLife, Leadership Community, Orange, Orillia, Vision and Purpose | 2 Comments

So I know it’s not thanksgiving, but in this space between Christmas and New Year’s, I find myself incredibly thankful for what God is doing through Connexus Church. 

So many of you invited friends and family out on Christmas Eve (this pic is from the 5:30 service in Barrie).  Thank you for [...]

Making a Difference This Christmas

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

Got some ‘Christmases’ coming up? You know what I mean – there’s only one Christmas, but most of us celebrate two or three times with family and friends. Our family had our first Christmas earlier this week, and it was a really great time. 
My favourite part?  A few of us were able to make a [...]

Hope to Drive Away In A New Car?

Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, Uncategorized | No Comments

So this Sunday in Barrie and on Sunday, December 13th in Orillia, we launch The Story of Hope.  And (we’re a bit stoked), you could drive away Sunday with a brand new car.  Seriously.  Make sure you’re in the house – you can’t win on line.
The Story of Hope is all about where we place [...]

Help us Give Away Christmas

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, Featured Article, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

It’s been great to see the initial response to Giving Away Christmas at Connexus.  Missed Sunday?  Catch up here or on iTunes (search "connexus church"). 
Here’s what Giving Away Christmas is all about.  Many of us will end up giving and getting gifts we really don’t need, and frankly, sometimes don’t want.  But our want can [...]

Baptism a Go!

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs | No Comments

So I have this incredible track record of picking great weather days for outdoor baptisms. Remember last year?  We wore our ski jackets I think and cut through the August ice to baptize people.At least it's warm today (well, sort of). (By the way, I am available to pick dates for your outdoor wedding, family reunion [...]

Mid-Summer Update

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs | No Comments

How are you enjoying your summer?  I hope it's been great.  It's finally starting to feel like summer, especially now that my personal holidays are over. :0)  I wanted to bring an update on some things we're working on and some things we're excited about. Summer is never dull around here and our staff is [...]

It’s July – And We’re…Growing?

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs | No Comments

So in ministry world in Canada, summer is often a deadzone.  Not much happens.  Now that's never really been our philosophy at Connexus (we have a line up this summer that we are so excited about for adults and kids), but sometimes in the summer in ministry it feels like you are fighting gravity to [...]

Sunday – Text Us Your Questions Live During the Service

Posted on 03. Jun, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Current Affairs, New Series, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

So to wrap up Signs from Beyond at our campuses, we're doing something we haven't done before.  I'm actually not going to prepare a full message.  Instead, we're going to let you fire your personal questions/scenarios at me live Sunday morning during the message via text messaging. In fact, your questions (and the answers to [...]