The New Leaf Project

The Third Thursday of Advent: Shine Down On Us, shared by Keitha Ogbogu. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with selected readings of the New Leaf Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: En...

The Third Monday of Advent: As the Deer... shared by Rob Crosby-Shearer. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with selected readings of the New Leaf Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: En...

The Second Wednesday of Advent: Dreaming of Better Days, shared by David Schuchardt. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with selected readings of the New Leaf Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling t...

The Second Tuesday of Advent: Linger in the Darkness, shared by Rohadi. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with selected readings of the New Leaf Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: Eng...

The First Friday of Advent: Choosing Joy, shared by Kathy Stock. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with selected readings of the New Leaf Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: Engaging A...

The First Wednesday of Advent: Treasonous to "the gods," Faithful to our Maker/Husband , shared by Dan Sheffield. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with our audio companion to the Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their re...

The First Monday of Advent: Emotions Transposed, shared by Amy Bratton. The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with our audio companion to the Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: Engaging A...

The New Leaf Project Podcast continues with our audio companion to the Advent Reader. We're so excited to offer our second annual daily Advent Reader for 2019 and thrilled this year to offer an audio companion. Slow down, pay attention, and listen to the words as writers share their reflections on Falling to Pieces: Engaging Advent Even When All is Not Right with the World . In this episode Jared...

This week Elle has a conversation with Evan Garst and Alanna Johnson from Una Church in Kitchener Ontario. Evan shares his journey of growing up in a family dedicated to what many would consider a traditional missions model – living overseas in Ethiopia during his teen years - to planting a church, Una, that has said “yes” to the opportunities of being a presence-based, neighbourhood-focused churc...

The Neighbourhood series continues as Jared sits down with Katelyn Siggelkow. Katelyn Siggelkow is a listener, a learner, a community catalyst, a neighbourhood chaplain and community organizer. She has lived and worked in marginalized communities in Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, and most recently in the West Side of Saskatoon with Servant Partners . Here, she loves meeting her neighbours, hearing...

Ep 67 – Neighbourhood series – James Kingsley and Steve MacDouell Next up in the Neighbourhood series, Elle sits down with James Kingsley and Steve MacDouell from London, ON. In this episode they explore how they became interested in place, the concept of of neighbourhood-centric missiology and the mircro experiments they are working on with The Good City Co in their city. Good City is “a collecti...

The Neighbourhood series continues… Rohadi Nagassar sits down with Evan Paul Spencer to talk about Evan’s trajectory from youth pastor to church planter to being intentionally present in a neighbourhood. Evan walks us through his process of embracing a place-focused, slow, faithful-presence way of living out faith. Evan is based in the Calgary area and where he is a Neighbourhood Connector with Ab...

The first episode of our new Neighbourhood Series is here! In this episode Elle has a conversation with Preston Pouteaux about his book, The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighbourhood . They talk about his community and what their presence in their neighbourhood looks like. Dr. Preston Pouteaux is a beekeeper, neighbourhood enthusiast, and pastor at Lake R...

The New Leaf Project Podcast is back with a new season - The Neighbourhood Series. We believe it is essential for communities of faith to recapture the idea of the local vocation if they want to see real community transformation. And the beautiful thing is, Canadians all across this country have already been doing this slow, faithful work of serving and loving the places they find themselves in. P...

Ep 64 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode we hear what Andrew Benson shared at a recent Learning Party about his work with The Joyful Project and the Concert for Socks. Benson loves Jesus, throwing parties, and advocating for various social justice causes. He is currently serving as Community Outreach Officer with The Salvation Army and founder of The Joyful Project and Concert for So...

Ep 63 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode we hear what Jeremy Conway, pastor of Reunion Church in Brockville, ON, shared at a recent Learning Party. The goal of a Learning Party is to connect with other Christ followers across denominational lines and see how the Spirit of God is working in various expressions in a region. We want people to be encouraged that they...

Ep 62 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we hear from church planter and lead pastor of Church on the Rock Dave Overholt. He speaks with Dan Sheffield on the topic of keeping young adults in the church…. Are we really losing all the young adults that the research is telling us? What are the factors that have an impact on whether or not a young person holds on to their faith? He has...

Ep 61 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we present part two of a conversation with Jared, Pastor Keitha Ogbogu and Rev. Dr. Lennet J. Anderson. In this conversation Lennett talks to Jared and Keitha about the present reality of black Nova Scotians and the racial dynamics that have an impact from childhood to old age. Lennett also shares how the church’s response to a particular cas...

Ep 60 of the podcast is here! In this episode, we present a conversation with Jared, Pastor Keitha Ogbogu and Rev. Dr. Lennet J. Anderson. Lennett Anderson is the Senior Pastor of EBC: The MEETing Place, Upper Hammonds Plains, NS. Named by MacLean’s Magazine as “one of five Canadian Pastors who are breathing new life into their communities,” he has been identified as a source of inspiration a...

Ep 59 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we present an interview originally featured on the Canadian Asian Missional Podcast. In this episode they ask what does it mean to be persecuted and suffer as we participate on God's mission in our city and world? Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim talks about his experiences serving those in need in North Korea and his imprisonment as a result. How can we u...

Ep 58 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we take a look back at the year that was with Elle and Jared. As we close out 2018, we reflect on the highlights of the past year, the things that we are focused on for 2019 and share our thankfulness for all those who have joined and supported New Leaf this past year. Thanks for sticking with us on the New Leaf Project this year, we can't wa...

Ep 57 of the New Leaf Project is here! And just in time for Christmas! In this episode, we hear a Christmas ramble from Jared and Elle about Advent and what it means to wait in the margins. We may not always be content there, we may not always have the peace and serenity of a candle lit Christmas scene as we find ourselves outside the places of power and influence, but we can continue to ask the q...

Ep 56 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we hear from arts chaplain and the co-founder of The Bleeding Art Space in Edmonton Alberta, Dave Von Bieker. Dave shares about what it means to curate creativity, connections, and conversations around art, faith, hope and love In Edmonton. We learn about how this art space, sacred space and community space on Alberta Avenue had its origins i...

Ep 55 of the New Leaf Project is here! In this episode, we hear from church planter and lead pastor of Church on the Rock Dave Overholt. Often on the New Leaf Project, we talk about church plants and new innovations in their infancy, but this episode we get to hear about something that was planted and has sustained itself for 20 years. We learn about the original vision for the church plant, how t...