PGIMF Worship Services

After the talk by Laurel Borisenko, a Congregational Meeting will be held after a pizza lunch.  

Garry Janzen will speak on "Love leads the way" 

Ken Friesen will speak on "Anabaptism at 500 – How did we end up here?"  

On Sunday, September 28th, 2025, Shelby Boese spoke on "Non-Prosecutable Speech of Resistance". Of the two types of "speaking in tongues", he spoke more on the type with "ecstatic spiritual speech" that no one but God understands, as opposed to the type where people spoke in an existing language that they did not know. The tongue-speaking worship has a function, as those from a Pentecostal context...

On Sunday, September 21st, 2025, Daniel Melvill Jones spoke on the Parable of the Shrewd Manager, which is famous for being a difficult parable to understand. The master set out to fire the manager because the manager was squandering his wealth (same word used from the Parable of the Prodigal Son). Knowing that he'll be destitute and a social outcast, the manager makes a reckless and unauthorized...

On Sunday, September 14, 2025, Heather spoke to us about "The Prodigal Son's Resentful Brother".

Karl Brown spoke on the theme: "Pick it up. It’s lighter than you think."  

Tim Kuepfer spoke on "Tapestry of Faith" at Camp Squeah (near Yale, BC) for the joint service with Chinatown Peace Church & PGIMF.

On Sunday, August 24, 2025, Charlotte Siemens spoke on "Pentecost in August". Specifically, she told us about the multiple layers of stories that we are all a part of, and how that affects how we interact with the people around us. There are four types of stories: my story, our story, other stories, and God's story. Though we might be more comfortable being part of our story, within our small grou...

On Sunday, August 17th, 2025, Laura Sportack spoke on "A Longing to See the Face of God" and showed us a series of artworks (PDF, 11 slides). NOTE: the final slide is intentionally blank (redacted for privacy reasons).  

On August 10, 2025, Justin Sun spoke to us about "Triumph? In This Economy?"

Kevin Hiebert spoke on “The Extradimensionality of God”, based on the book Beyond the Cosmos by Hugh Ross.

April Yamasaki came to Menno Court and spoke on “Remember the Wonders”. As a published author, her books are available at aprilyamasaki.com/books on her website.      

On Sunday, July 20, 2025, Beth Stovell, Professor of Old Testament and Chair of General Theological Studies at Ambrose University in Calgary, preached for us via Zoom. She spoke about the imagery of God as both a Warrior and as a Mother. Both analogies are complicated in their own way, but they both show up in the Scriptures and are relevant to our understanding of Jesus. In Isaiah 42, God comfort...

On Sunday, July 6th, 2025, Mark Glanville (speaker and Director of the Centre for Missional Leadership, St Andrews Hall, UBC) spoke on “The 10 Commandments—God’s Economics” based on Exodus 20. People today like to think of the 10 Commandments individually (i.e. I don't kill, steal, or commit adultery, therefore I'm a good person). Yet, if we look at the context behind the laws, we can see that the...

On Sunday, June 29th, 2025, Johann Funk spoke on "Abigail: Fearless champion for peace". When David was being hunted by Saul for forty years, he encountered a wealthy and wicked man named Nabal (he was probably a narcissist). When he sought help from Nabel, he was instead met with accusations that David was an "unfaithful servant" who lived by extortion. In his rage, David had prepared to kill Nab...

On Sunday, June 22, 2025, we heard a message from Donna Dinsmore titled "We’re Free!" reflecting on the passage from Luke 13. Donna Dinsmore hails from northern Maine. She taught choral music in South Carolina for 20 years and studied, served and taught at Regent College in the area of worship and music for 9 years. Since ordination in the United Church in 2014, she has served on the North Shore,...

Ruth Enns spoke on Proverbs’ views of Wisdom. 

Henry Krause spoke about the coming of the Holy Spirit.  

Chan Yang spoke on "To Be Like God" on June 1st, 2025.

Dori Zerbe Cornelsen spoke remotely on "Words Make Worlds" 

Doug Amstutz (MDiv, AMBS) spoke on “The Damascus Road Revisited” based on the account of Saul of Tarsus being transformed from a persecutor of Christians into Paul, a preacher of Jesus as the Christ. Has the trajectory of your life been shaped or changed by a pivotal experience?

Sunday April 11th, 2025, Henry Neufeld started a part-sermon, part-discussion time where he described several memorable moments from his life, and invited us to do the same. His talk was divided in three sections: "What Do You Believe?", "An Error in Speaking of Not Keeping My Mouth Shut", and "Have You Ever Sold Heavenly Life Insurance?". In the first section, Henry talked about the time when he...

On Sunday, May 4th, 2025, Evan Kreider gave a sermon on "Feed My Sheep". During Jesus' darkest hour, Peter lied about not knowing Jesus three times, just as Jesus foretold to him. In shame, Peter (and six other disciples) went back to fishing even after Jesus' resurrection. This is when Jesus came to his disciples and had fish for breakfast together. The words do not convey just how long and awkwa...

On Sunday, April 27th, Annika Krause spoke to us remotely via Zoom from Montreal on "Are You Curious About Your Enemy?". She gives many different ideas to think about, starting with the definition of the word "enemy". An enemy is someone who uses their power (actively or passively) to harm or dominate another. To ask the oppressed people to love their enemies was no less radical when Luke wrote th...