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It’s 2025, the Centennial year for The United Church of Canada! Kick off a year of hope and looking outward-upward-inward by joining the Moderator, The Right Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, for a New Year’s address and town hall built around the theme of visions and dreams.

And growth as a sign of hope.

Joining the Moderator will be the Growth team leadership, and the new church plant leads. As well as a pastoral welcome to the new and Centennial year, this session will be a national introduction to Growth and emerging Communities of Faith. Find out more about the three streams of work underway to revitalize and activate growth in the denomination: Renew; Create; Invite. 

Where do you see signs of hope in the church? 

There will be an opportunity for you to tell us. And to ask questions: a half-hour Q&A will wrap up the evening. Join the Moderator in conversation with the Church. And the Church in conversation with emerging church plant leads.

Dream on. Share in the Vision. Start the new year with hope and inspiration. 

This will be a bilingual event with live interpretation.

Host: Rev. Stephen Fetter

The Moderator’s guests:

Rev. Jennifer Henry currently serves as Executive Minister for The United Church of Canada's Organizational Development and Strategy unit. In 2021, she led the development of The United Church of Canada's new strategic plan. From 2012 to 2020, she served as Executive Director of KAIROS, a global social justice organization supported by Canadian churches.

Rev. Cameron Fraser is the Director of Growth and Ministry Development with The United Church of Canada. For 14 year he worked at the congregational level at church planting, new ministry development and growth and renewal, most recently in Regina, SK (Treaty 4 Territory), where he still lives.

Emo Yango is the Growth Coordinator, recruiting church plant leads, supervising and coordinating all new emerging migrant and diasporic communities of faith in The United Church of Canada. He also coordinates the anti-racism courses, on behalf of the Office of Vocation, for United Church ministers and lay leaders.