Giving Away Christmas (January Update)

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

So, last month we encouraged you to Give Away Christmas.  We’ve been tracking with our partners over the last few weeks and the final results are in.
You ready?  You have away over $8,000 worth of gifts during Christmas 09 to those in need.  Thank you so much for giving up your want to help meet [...]

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 [...]

Giving Your Life Away

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Orillia, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | 1 Comment

In the next few weeks, we’re going to give people at Connexus a chance to give this Christmas with a one week series we’re calling "Giving Christmas Away".  We’re totally looking forward to that, in part because it will make an immediate difference (families globally and locally will be impacted), but i part because it [...]

Team Win…

Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

Earlier today I wrote a blog post about how our staff and leadership team at Connexus thinking about ‘winning’ in ministry.   Whether you’re a Yankess fan or not, it’s clear that they just won the world series.  How do you know you’re winning in ministry?
I want to expand on that with a few stories about [...]

Why Family Ministry Matters

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Orange, Uncategorized, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

On Saturday at our ReFuel event we celebrated our incredible family ministry volunteers.  They are a group of volunteers – ordinary people like all of us – who have decided to invest in the next generation.  Between both campuses, over 125 adults and teens serve in family ministry. 
I am so excited by that.  Here’s why:

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Thanks Sean!

Posted on 15. Oct, 2009 by carey in Connexus, Featured Article, Leadership Community, Orillia | No Comments

Since June, all of you at the Orillia Campus have had the chance to get to know and love Sean Wood, who served as our interim campus pastor. 
Sean’s been a friend of Connexus since we launched and some of us go back a few years with Sean.  He’s a great leader with a wonderfully genuine [...]

Not Keeping it To Yourself

Posted on 30. Sep, 2009 by carey in GroupLife, Leadership Community, New Series, Vision and Purpose | No Comments

If you discover a great restaurant, do you tell someone? If you get engaged, do you keep it to yourself? When your toddler takes his first steps, do you leave the video camera in the case and unplug your phone?…

Muskoka – Sunday May 10th

Posted on 09. May, 2009 by rich in Leadership Community | No Comments

On Sunday May 10th, we are hosting the next Muskoka Monthly.  We are hosting Connexus environments on the second Sunday of the month to help build momentum towards launching full campus in Muskoka.  The last two monthly events have been fantastic!  Our latest event is on Sunday May 10th!Do you know some friends that [...]