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From The Desk of Our Executive Minister

AGM season is upon us!

Ages ago when I was a green seminary student, I had a ministry mentor who was pastoring a growing large church of nearly two thousand people. He was very numbers focused. He would say often...

MCBC Pastoral Highlight

5 Fun Facts About Sunny:

1. I was born and raised in HK...
2. I have always loved music...
3. As a child, I never liked running...
4. I avoid having pets...
5. I once had a hilarious time skiing...

From The Desk of Our Executive Minister

Imperialism, Islamism, Communist Colonization, Crony Capitalism…

 It's quite easy these days to get pulled into ideological antagonisms and demonizing the other. Certainly there are anti-life and anti-Christ behaviours of various actors local and global that should be called out. However, where the world is changed is often not in the great moves, but the little.

Church Plant Update

Dear Friends at MCBC,

As Valley Road Church moves into its third year, we want to express our sincere gratitude to MCBC for the ongoing support, encouragement, and prayer that have helped sustain and shape this work. We are thankful for the partnership we share and look forward with anticipation to what lies ahead in 2026.

From The Desk of Our Executive Minister

At North American Baptist Seminary, where I studied for my MDiv, one of the ethics courses used Glen Stassen's Kingdom Ethics. This was a marvelous text in which he, and co-author, David Gushee, used the Sermon on the Mount [SOTM] as a key source of a Jesus-Centered way of practicing the faith in real life (Orthopraxy). They identified 14 "triads" (groups of three, not the Chinese mafia) in the SOTM. Jesus cites the problem, traditional 'righteousness' approach and its vicious cycle, and then a new way forward. A way that has a transforming initiative which breaks the vicious cycle we get trapped in through our false holiness or other ways of control.

Revitalization Grant Nov Update

Shawna Swanson is growing our youth ministry at UMCBC through weekly Bible studies in the Psalms, service opportunities in our church, and outreach events in the community. Looking forward to a local youth conference and possible missions/service trip in 2026.