Significant Church: Understanding the Value of the Small Evangelical Church in Canada

Most evangelical churches in Canada are small.

One would expect to find a significant number of resources geared toward the small church, and that a significant portion of pastoral training curriculum would be dedicated to training for small church ministry.

But the Canadian Evangelical Small Church Study (CESCS) shows most resources and training for church leadership and ministry assume large church contexts that simply do not translate to a small or a Canadian context.

This report comes out of a research partnership that sought to understand the needs of small, Canadian, evangelical churches. The goal was to understand from pastors what small churches need to function and flourish in Canada. This report is an opportunity to care for small churches as they are rather than how they are not. It’s an opportunity to understand how the small church is, truly, a significant church.