You can keep track of our church planting initiative in Strathcona via the blog.  Or email us with questions.

At an extraordiary meeting at the end of March 2009, Kits Church voted to move ahead with the plant, contingent upon the approval of the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada and their committment to being a funding partner as well as their adjudication of the proposal we put forward. 

On Easter Sunday of 2009 we blessed and sent the team of people from Kits who are going to Strathcona to help this new church get off the ground.  Below is the liturgy of blessing and sending that Jackie Law wrote for us and that we read together on the front lawn of Kits Church after our Easter celebration together.

One:     Here, where there is the open sky above, the common ground beneath, where the mountains stand before us, and the wind blows from behind

Many:     We send you on

One:    Here, where the traffic rushes past us, travelling east and west, to parts of our city where love needs to go

Many:     We send you on

One:     Here, at the edge of our gathering place, where we are all moving, in and out of a sanctuary, of one community being sanctified

Many:     We send you on to another.

One:     Here, and now, when we have walked together a Lenten journey to the cross, waited in darkness, and woken to wondrous new life

Many:     We bless you

One:     Now, when we are rejoicing in the sure hope of resurrection, in the firstfruits of a flourishing new creation, in the promise already fulfilled yet still to be

Many:     We bless you

One:     Now, when we feast and celebrate and tell the world, “Christ is risen”—
Many:     “He is risen indeed!”—
One:     we ask for Holy Spirit to come, to empower and unite us

Many:     We bless you, in the name of Father, Son, and Spirit.

Many:     So here, and now, we send our sisters and brothers from Kitsilano Christian Community to Strathcona, with our blessing—born of obedience to take up our cross, for the joy which lies ahead.