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A Personal Reflection from Ray Woodard
By PortalBot • October 17, 2023

Ray Woodard, Outreach Canada's Board Chairman, reflects on this season of thanksgiving in regards to OC's current season of transition as we move towards the future. 

"This seas...

Bonds Beyond Borders: The Impact of ReBoot on MKs
By PortalBot • October 10, 2023

There is something so beautiful about the quick bonds that form between MKs (Missionary Kids), who understand each other despite having drastically different life experiences. It’s like a breath of...

Empowering the Church: 5 Steps to Impact Your Neighbourhood
By PortalBot • October 04, 2023

I remember sitting in a seminar once hearing the presenter ask, "If your local church disappeared, would anybody in the neighbourhood notice?"

Stinging words. Sobering. Sit with that ques...

Rethink Development: Caring for Pastors in Burundi
By PortalBot • October 02, 2023

Caring for Burundian Pastors!

The church is omnipresent in Burundi; it is one of those African countries where the Christian faith has become part of the fabric of the society – both urba...

Residential Schools: How should Followers of Christ Respond?
By PortalBot • September 27, 2023

The revelation of 215 Indigenous children’s remains found at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (IRS) in 2021 shocked Canadians and reverberated around the world. As a Christ follow...

The OC Global Alliance: Our Ministries
By PortalBot • September 26, 2023

184,163 decisions for Christ. 27,981 churches established with our assistance. 100,000+ leaders trained or mentored. These are stats from the annual report of the OC Global Alli...

A Family of Ministries
By PortalBot • September 20, 2023

Outreach Canada is made up of several ministry teams – all with their own unique contexts and specific focuses, spread across our country. What’s the common thread? How do we all fit together? ...

Discovery Bible Study: A Challenge for Canadian Ministry Leaders
By PortalBot • September 18, 2023

In the first two parts of this blog series, we shared Teresa’s story of introduction to Discovery Bible Study (Part 1) as well as stories of Teresa’s missionary journey through Asia (Part 2). ...

Stories of a Disciple-Making Movement in Asia (Part 2)
By PortalBot • September 12, 2023

In her modern-day missionary journeys throughout Asia, Teresa has been focusing on training leaders and equipping them to facilitate disciple-making-movements, primarily through the tool of Discove...

OC Director's Blog: September 2023 - LeaderSHIFT
By PortalBot • September 06, 2023

Since the beginning of the year, we have been working through a leadership transition at Outreach Canada. After fifteen years as Executive Director, Craig Kraft has moved to a new role as the Direc...

How an Introduction to DBS led to a Disciple-Making Movement
By PortalBot • September 05, 2023

“She has a map! That's just like in the back of your Bible, the missionary journeys of Paul”, Craig Kraft, OC’s Executive Director, excitedly shared about an OC missionary and her recent travels th...

A Worldview Story: Set Free
By PortalBot • August 31, 2023

One of the challenges of interacting cross-culturally with our neighbours is that we understand our own worldview very clearly, but people coming from other cultures come with a different perspecti...