Last week during the Multipliers Summit at Bonfire, two NAB church plants were honored to receive the coveted Harry Lehotsky Award.
In recognition of their significant contributions to the NAB and the Four End Goals for missional and formational movement making, and through a generous partnership with Church Investors Fund, Garden City Church in Prince George, British Columbia, and Hope Community Church in Antelope, California, were awarded this honor named after beloved NAB pastor Harry Lehotsky.
Rev. Harry Lehotsky planted New Life Ministries in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1983. Through the next twenty-six years until his death from pancreatic cancer in 2006, he led New Life in focusing on justice issues, renewal, and safety in the west end of the city. He also helped found the Lazarus Housing and Nehemiah Housing programs, as well as the Ellice Cafe and Theatre. He was well known for his advocacy on behalf of the poor and his dedication for improving the living conditions of his city and neighborhood. Shortly before he passed, Rev. Lehotsky was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.
Fingerprints of his ministry continue to be found throughout Winnipeg, and his legacy continues even beyond Manitoba. Part of that legacy is the Harry Lehotsky Award, which was previously given out at the NAB Triennials in 2012–2018. Through the generosity and partnership of CIF, we have resurrected this award, bestowing it upon two Multipliers for their contributions Four End Goals of the NAB, which focus on missional engagement, cross-cultural engagement, development of spiritual leaders, and international missions. (Check out the full summation of the NAB End Goals.)
In their own ways, both Garden City and Hope Community embody the spirit of Harry Lehotsky and his heart for people on the fringes. . . .
Recently, as part of connecting multipliers with the global mission of the NAB, nine pastors and leaders from NAB churches partook in a vision trip to Romania. Stu Streeter, VP of Church Multiplication, alongside Pastor Drew Steinhart of Disciples Church in Medina, Ohio, led the team of planters and revitalizers to experience firsthand the ministry of Camp Falcon Rock and to explore sister-church partnerships with our brothers and sisters in the Convention of Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania (HBC).
Partnership is at the heart of trips such as this; they are not only about building partnerships between churches in North America and sister churches in Europe or elsewhere, they are made possible, in part, due to the churches and individuals who choose to partner with the NAB through their generous gifts. When you give to the NAB’s Ministry Resource Fund on an ongoing basis, you are helping to support Kingdom work such as this.
Your faithful monthly gift of $5, $10, or $25 – or whatever amount – when combined with other small gifts, will make a big difference. Thank you for prayerfully considering this invitation to partner with us.
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Reframe is a four-week, online training for pastors and leaders to help you assess your congregation’s evangelism readiness. This training will provide an evaluative framework to help you to recognize gaps you may need to fill and distortions you will want to correct, and it will provide a clearer path forward toward helping your church become more evangelistically faithful.
Reframe is not a training that will focus on how to better do evangelism but instead will focus on how to be evangelistic.
- How well equipped is your congregation for the ministry of evangelism?
- How do you evaluate your church’s health in that regard?
- How would you identify equipping gaps in your congregation’s evangelistic faithfulness?
Each training consists of an online, 90-minute session. They will take place 10:00–11:30 a.m. (Pacific) each Wednesday in June (3, 10, 17, 24).
Training is free for NAB ministry leaders. Register at the link below. For questions, connect with Deb Judas.