District In-Service Training Seminar is for all pastors and spouses. All workers, whether Senior Pastor, Youth Pastor, Children's Worker or any other role, will benefit from this training opportunity. Dress code for the day is casual and lunch will be arranged by the host church. Please mark the nearest DITS seminar on your calendar and plan to be there!
This year's DITS Seminar:
Community Engagement: A Guide to Incarnational Living
Seminar Outline:
Often in our desire to stand for Biblical principles we can end up fighting the symptoms while ignoring the root source. This seminar addresses this issue from the perspective of living well in all areas of life. Typically we view each relationship in our lives from two perspectives; what we desire and what we have. The greater the gap between these two positions, the greater the stress, lack of purpose and frustration. This seminar helps the participant to learn how to identify the gaps in their own lives and how to address the gaps within their community. Included in this seminar is a template that has been proven to be affective in determing direction for new initiatives in the local church.
Community Engagement will assist the participant in both developing and evaluating sustainable initiatives from three perspectives: The organizing agency (a congregation, business, club), the participating individual, and the recipient.
The Presenter: Rev. David Collins 
David is the son of missionary parents (Harold and June, Vietnam). He with his wife Nancy have pastored three congregations and served as C&MA missionaries in Thailand and the Philippines, working in Vietnamese refugee camps. Upon returning to Canada, Dave founded the work of Canadian Food for the Hungry Int'l (1994). In May 2007, David and Nancy sensed God's confirming blessing on a growing desire to invest their lives back in the Bride of Christ in Canada. As a result, Paradigm Ministries was birthed in January 2008. www.paradigmministries.ca David now works with congregations, church leadership (boards and staff), camps, NGO's and the business community. He grows in his love for contemplative prayer and a growing understanding of resting in the sovereign hands of God. He is passionate about God's kingdom being enjoyed by every community in Canada and also believes that this nation holds a special place in the global arena. God's people are coming together from a sense of personal urgency to engage.
The Schedule:
8:30am - Coffee
9:00am - Community Engagement: A Guide to Incarnational Living Part I
10:15am -Break
10:45am - Community Engagement: A Guide to Incarnational Living Part II
12:30pm - Lunch (provided by church), and ministry specific breakouts
The Locations:
Thursday October 9
Cranbook Alliance Church
1200 Kootenay Street North
Cranbrook BC V1C 5X1
250-489-4704
Thursday October 16
Lakewood Alliance Church
4001 Fifth Avenue
Prince George BC V2M 1L5
25-564-8737
Monday October 27
Shawnigan Alliance Church
PO Box 313
Shawnigan Lake BC V0R 2W0
250-743-4454
Tuesday October 28
Mission Creek Alliance
2091 Springfield Road
Kelowna BC V1Y 7X1
250-860-2427
Wednesday October 29
Peace Portal Alliance
15128 27B Avenue
Surrey BC V4P 1P2
604-531-4733